This product is the flower head of chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat.), a perennial herbaceous plant of the Asteraceae family. Due to the difference in origin, flower color and processing method, it is divided into white Chrysanthemum Flower, chrysanthemum flower and Chu Chrysanthemum Flower. Mainly produced in Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan and Sichuan provinces. Harvest during the flowering period and dry in the shade for raw use.

[Property]

acrid, sweet and bitter, slightly cold. act on lung and liver channels.

[Efficacy]

releasing exterior with pungent-cool, improving vision, clearing heat and removing toxin. releasing exterior with pungent-cool multi-purpose chrysanthemum flower, improving vision multi-purpose chrysanthemum flower.

1. It is used for common cold and fever headache. This product is light on the surface, clear and floating, slightly cold and clears away heat, and is better than releasing exterior with pungent-cool. Therefore, it is often used to treat common cold, or the initial onset of warm disease, when warm evil invades the lungs, fever, headache, cough and other symptoms. Each used with Mulberry Leaf, Forsythia, Mentha, Platycodon Root, such as Mulberry Leaf and Chrysanthemum Decoction.
2. For red eye dimness. This product is good at dispersing wind and clearing heat, clearing the liver and draining fire, and can also benefit yin and improve vision. Therefore, it can be used to treat liver meridian wind-heat, or red eye swelling and pain caused by liver fire attacking upward, which is often associated with Mulberry Leaf, Cassia Seed, Gentian, Prunella are used equally to play the role of dispersing wind clearing heat and improving vision. If the liver and kidneys are deficient and the eyes are dim and blurred, it is often used with Barbary Wolfberry Fruit, Prepared Rehmannia Root Yellow, Cornus YAO >Equal use, such as Wolfberry and Chrysanthemum Rehmannia Pill, can jointly benefit from nourishing water to moisten wood and benefiting yin to improve vision.
3. For vertigo infantile convulsion. This product is cold in nature and enters the liver meridian. It can clear away heat and calm the liver. Therefore, it can be used equally with Abalone Shell, Nacre and Achyranthes Root. Treat ascendant hyperactivity of liver yang, headache vertigo; used with antelope horn, Uncaria, Peony Root, etc., can be used to treat convulsive syncope convulsion Real syndrome/pattern of internal stirring of liver wind, such as Antelope Horn and Uncaria Decoction.
4. Used for boil and sore poison. This product is sweet and cold, nourishes yin, clears heat and removes toxin, and is especially good at detoxifying boil and sore. Therefore, it can be used to treat sores and swelling. It is often used with Lonicera and Liquorice Root Same use, such as chamomile soup.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "Mainly whirlwind, dizziness, swelling and pain, eyes tearing up, tears coming out."
2. Yaoxing Lun: "Treatment of wind-heat in the head and head. , falling to the ground in a whirlwind, with pain in the brain and bones, all the wind traveling on the body will dissipate, and benefit the blood vessels."
3. Bencao Biandu: "It calms the liver and soothes the lungs, clears the upper energizer's evil heat, and cures the eyes. dispelling wind, nourishing yin and nourishing the kidneys."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take 10-15g.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains volatile oil, including borneol, camphor, chrysanthemum, etc. In addition, it also contains inulin, adenine, choline, japanese betony herb base, trace amounts of vitamin A, and vitamin B₁

1. 1:1～1:5 Chrysanthemum Flower water immersion agent or decoction has a certain antibacterial effect on Staphylococcus aureus, a variety of disease-causing bacilli and dermatophytes; at high concentrations, it has a certain antibacterial effect on influenza viruses PR3 Leptospira also has inhibitory effects.
2. Chrysanthemum Flower preparation can dilate the coronary stirred pulse, increase coronary blood flow, increase myocardial oxygen consumption, and has antihypertensive effects. It can also inhibit capillary permeability and have anti-inflammatory effects.
3. Chrysanthemum Flower extract can have an antipyretic effect on rabbits with artificial fever when administered intragastrically.