Say Osmanthus fragrans(Gui hua)
Say Osmanthus fragrans(Gui hua)
Medicinal Uses of Osmanthus fragrans(Gui hua)
1.Stomach Health: Suitable for individuals with chronic gastritis, chronic hepatitis, and inflammatory bowel disease. It can assist in treating gastric pain caused by deficiency-cold, especially for those whose gastric pain worsens in the winter.
2.Phlegm Relief: Appropriate for individuals with insufficient lung moisture, chronic cough, and asthma. It can assist in thinning phlegm and relieving asthma.
3.Blood Stasis Resolution: Suitable for individuals with dysmenorrhea (painful menstruation). It has beauty-enhancing properties, nourishes liver blood, and regulates menstruation. Regularly drinking Gui hua tea can help women have a pleasant menstrual period and enhance their beauty. There's a Chinese saying: "Nurture internally and nourish externally; natural beauty will appear."
4.Freshens Breath: The pleasant aroma of Gui hua can freshen breath and eliminate oral odors when used as a drink.
Healthy recipes
Gui hua Tea
Ingredients: 5-10 grams of Gui hua.
Method: Brew with hot water, steep for 5 minutes, and drink it as a tea.
Benefits: Soothes the liver, dispels cold, promotes skin health, warms the spleen and stomach, and helps with dysmenorrhea. Suitable for daily consumption.
Gui hua Pear Soup
Ingredients: 10 grams of Gui hua, 1 pear, 5 grams of rock sugar.
Method: Wash and peel the pear, remove the core, and cut it into pieces. Place the pear in a pot, add 800ml of water to cover the pear pieces. After the pear is cooked, add rock sugar and Gui hua, and simmer for two minutes.
Benefits: Moistens the lungs and relieves coughing. Suitable for those who frequently cough.
Gui hua Red Date Glutinous Rice Porridge
Ingredients: 250 grams of glutinous rice, 40 grams of red dates, 10 grams of Gui hua, 5 grams of brown sugar.
Method: Wash the glutinous rice and red dates. In a sand pot, bring an appropriate amount of water to a boil. Add glutinous rice and red dates, and simmer over medium heat for twenty minutes, or until the porridge is thick and glutinous. Add brown sugar and Gui hua, simmer for another 5 minutes, then turn off the heat.
Benefits: Invigorates the spleen, stimulates the appetite, nourishes the liver, and regulates menstruation. Especially suitable for women with premenstrual syndrome.
