Chrysanthemum’s Therapeutic Abilities: Beyond Beauty to Health”

Chrysanthemums are short-day plants that bloom earlier under short-day conditions. They are perennial herbaceous plants from the Asteraceae family and Chrysanthemum genus. They love sunlight, detest shade, are somewhat cold-resistant, and afraid of waterlogging.

While they prefer warm and humid climates, they can also tolerate cold, with their roots and rhizomes able to winter underground. So, do you know what the benefits and functions of chrysanthemums are? What symptoms can chrysanthemums treat? Let’s find out together.

Benefits and Functions of Chrysanthemums

Chrysanthemums have a slightly spicy, sweet, and bitter taste and a mildly cold nature. They can disperse wind-heat, clear the liver and improve vision, calm the liver-yang, and detoxify.

They are used for colds with wind-heat, fever and dizziness; heat in the liver meridian; red eyes with excessive tears, or liver and kidney yin deficiency, blurry vision; liver-yang hyperactivity, dizziness, and headaches; sore and swollen ulcers. They are also now used for coronary heart disease and hypertension.

Antibacterial: Chrysanthemums have inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, Shigella dysenteriae, Salmonella typhi, Paratyphoid bacillus, E. coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Human tuberculosis, and the influenza virus.

Lowering blood pressure: Chrysanthemums have the ability to lower blood pressure, eliminate cancer cells, dilate coronary arteries, and inhibit bacteria.

Long-term consumption can increase the body’s calcium, regulate cardiac function, lower cholesterol, making it suitable for middle-aged and elderly people and for preventing epidemic conjunctivitis.

Improving vision: In addition to applying chrysanthemums to the eyes to eliminate swelling, you can also drink a cup of chrysanthemum tea to relieve eye fatigue. Drinking 3-4 cups of chrysanthemum tea every day can also help restore vision.

Refreshing: Chrysanthemums are a type of nerve tonic that can enhance the resistance of capillaries, delay aging, and enhance physical strength. Chrysanthemums have a good calming effect, and regular consumption can relax the body and refresh the mind.

Symptoms That Chrysanthemums Can Treat

1. Wind-heat colds, early onset of warm diseases: Chrysanthemums can disperse lung wind-heat due to their spicy taste, light body, clear qi, and mildly cold nature. It is often used to treat wind-heat colds, or the early onset of warm diseases, when warm pathogens attack the lungs, causing fever, headaches, and coughs.
2. Liver-yang dizziness, liver-wind syndrome: Chrysanthemums, being cold in nature and entering the liver meridian, can clear liver heat and calm liver-yang. It is often used to treat liver-yang hyperactivity, dizziness, and vertigo.
3. Red and blurry eyes: With its spicy, bitter and diuretic nature and mildly cold temperature, chrysanthemums can disperse liver wind-heat and clear liver heat to improve vision.
4. Sores, boils and swelling: With its bitter taste and cold nature, chrysanthemums can clear heat and detoxify, thus treating sores, boils, and swelling.