The Efficacy and Benefits of Drinking Water Infused with White Chrysanthemum
Jan 07, 2025
Source: Cainiu Health
Dr. Zhang Xiuhong
Introduction
White chrysanthemum has the effect of dispersing wind-heat, and is commonly used to treat symptoms such as fever, headache, and cough caused by wind-heat感冒 or the early stages of warm diseases. Drinking it steeped in water can relieve fever and alleviate headaches by dispersing wind-heat pathogens on the body's surface. When combined with mulberry leaves, mint, and other herbs, its ability to dispel wind-heat is enhanced, helping the body eliminate external pathogens and recover health. Additionally, white chrysanthemum helps to regulate hyperactive liver-yang and clears the liver to improve vision.
Drinking water infused with white chrysanthemum flowers generally offers effects and benefits such as dispersing wind-heat, regulating liver function to improve vision, clearing heat and detoxifying, clearing lung heat and moistening dryness, cooling the blood to stop bleeding.
1. Dispersing Wind-Heat
White chrysanthemum can disperse wind-heat and is commonly used to treat symptoms of wind-heat感冒 or the early stages of warm diseases, such as fever, headache, and cough. Drinking chrysanthemum-infused water can help alleviate surface-level wind-heat pathogens, relieve fever, and reduce headaches. Combined with mulberry leaves and mint, it enhances the effect of dispersing wind-heat, helping the body expel external pathogens and recover health.
2. Regulating Liver Function and Improving Vision
White chrysanthemum helps regulate excessive liver activity and clears the liver to improve vision. It is effective for dizziness and vertigo caused by hyperactive liver yang, and for red, swollen, painful eyes and blurred vision caused by excessive liver fire. Drinking chrysanthemum tea can clear liver fire, subdue hyperactive liver yang, alleviate symptoms such as dizziness and vertigo, and relieve eye discomfort.
3. Clearing Heat and Detoxifying
White chrysanthemum has a strong effect in clearing heat and detoxifying and can be used to treat conditions such as abscesses and swellings caused by heat toxins. Drinking chrysanthemum-infused water can help eliminate heat toxins, reduce symptoms such as local redness, swelling, heat, and pain, and promote the resolution and healing of abscesses. It is often used together with herbs like honeysuckle and dandelion to enhance the heat-clearing and detoxifying effects.
4. Clearing Lung Heat and Moistening Dryness
White chrysanthemum enters the lung meridian and can clear lung heat while also moisturizing dryness. For symptoms such as cough due to lung heat and dry cough with little phlegm, drinking chrysanthemum tea can clear lung heat, moisten the lungs, and relieve coughing, reduce lung dryness, and help restore normal lung function of dispersion and descent.
5. Cooling the Blood and Stopping Bleeding
White chrysanthemum has the effect of cooling the blood to stop bleeding and can be used to treat various bleeding disorders caused by blood heat, such as hematemesis (vomiting blood) and epistaxis (nosebleeds). Drinking chrysanthemum tea can clear heat from the blood system, thereby achieving a hemostatic effect and alleviating symptoms of bleeding caused by blood heat.
It is recommended to use white chrysanthemum infusion under the guidance of a physician, and excessive consumption should be avoided. In daily diet, maintaining a balanced and light diet is recommended to support overall health.
