Floral Medicine: 65 Cases

Author: Huang Ke Huang Wei Huang Qian
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: To facilitate readers in understanding the use of various flowers and promoting physical and mental health, we have carefully selected 65 common and life-related flowers from the vibrant world of blossoms for this book. It includes traditional famous flowers such as peonies, Chinese peonies, chrysanthemums, orchids, plum blossoms, lotuses, osmanthus, roses, and camellias, which are renowned as traditional Chinese medicines. There are also and indoor plants like begonias, aloe vera, cacti,, jasmine, white magnolia, and marigolds, which are excellent ingredients for food therapy. Additionally, there are courtyard plants such as gardenias, winter jasmine, pomegranates, wood mallows, palms, and wisteria, which serve as small pharmacies for preventing and treating illnesses, truly earning them the title of "medicinal flowers." This book is fresh, trendy in content, lively and diverse in format, and written in simple, concise language, combining knowledge, science, and practicality. It systematically and specifically introduces the names, nutrition, health benefits, dietary uses, and beauty applications of flowering plants, enabling readers to utilize these plants for food therapy, fitness, and medicinal purposes.