The Efficacy and Benefits of Drinking Water Infused with Baby Chrysanthemum Flowers
Jan 07, 2025
Source: Cainiu Health
Dr. Yang Ziqi
Introduction
Fetu菊花 (Fetu Chrysanthemum) has a strong effect in clearing heat and detoxifying the body, and can be used to treat conditions such as heat-toxin sores and ulcers. Drinking it steeped in hot water effectively removes internal heat toxins and alleviates localized symptoms such as redness, swelling, heat, and pain. For sores and abscesses caused by accumulated heat-toxin, it promotes healing of the ulcers and helps the body eliminate pathogenic heat toxins. Fetu Chrysanthemum enters the Lung and Liver meridians and has the function of dispersing wind-heat. When steeped in water, it can be used to treat wind-heat type colds.
Consuming Fetus Chrysanthemum (baby chrysanthemum) tea generally offers various health benefits, including clearing heat and detoxifying the body, dispersing wind-heat, regulating liver function to improve vision, detoxifying and reducing swelling, as well as resolving phlegm and relieving cough.
1. Clearing Heat and Detoxification
Fetus Chrysanthemum has a strong effect in clearing heat and detoxifying the body and can be used to treat conditions such as heat-toxin sores and ulcers. Drinking it as a tea effectively removes internal heat toxins, alleviates symptoms such as local redness, swelling, heat, and pain. It helps promote healing of sores and abscesses caused by accumulated heat toxicity and aids the body in expelling pathogenic heat toxins.
2. Dispersing Wind-Heat
Fetus Chrysanthemum enters the lung and liver meridians and has the effect of dispersing wind-heat. Drinking it as a tea can be used to treat wind-heat type colds, relieving symptoms such as fever, headache, cough, and sore throat. It helps alleviate physical discomfort caused by external wind-heat pathogens and supports the body's recovery.
3. Regulating Liver Function and Improving Vision
Fetus Chrysanthemum helps regulate excessive liver activity (liver yang rising) and clears heat from the liver to improve eyesight. It is effective for symptoms such as dizziness and vertigo caused by hyperactive liver yang, and red, swollen, painful eyes with photophobia and excessive tearing caused by liver fire ascending. Drinking it as a tea can help balance liver yin and yang, relieve symptoms such as dizziness and eye discomfort, and protect vision.
4. Detoxifying and Reducing Swelling
Fetus Chrysanthemum has the effect of detoxifying and reducing swelling and can be used to treat abscesses, sores, swelling, and pain caused by accumulated heat toxins. Drinking it as a tea clears heat and toxins from the body, helps dissipate abscesses and swellings, promotes wound healing, reduces local inflammation, and has a therapeutic effect on skin conditions such as boils and carbuncles caused by heat toxins.
5. Resolving Phlegm and Relieving Cough
Fetus Chrysanthemum clears heat from the lungs and moistens dryness, offering some relief for coughing and phlegm production caused by lung heat or dryness. Drinking it as a tea clears heat and moistens the lungs, promoting free flow of lung qi, thinning phlegm, and facilitating its expulsion, thereby alleviating cough symptoms. It is especially suitable for treating coughs caused by lung heat or dry cough with little phlegm.
It is recommended to use Fetus Chrysanthemum tea under the guidance of a physician, and one should also pay attention to controlling the amount consumed. In daily diet, it is advised to maintain a balanced dietary structure.
