1, bud, warm, sweet, slightly bitter. Relieve summer heat, promote fluid production, stimulate appetite, relieve depression, moisten dryness and relieve cough. Indications: dizziness, vomiting, qi stagnation, stuffy stomach, measles, whooping cough, scald, fire injury, otitis media, etc.

2. Chimonanthus praecox contains volatile oil, including borneol and linalool. It has the effects of relieving summer heat, promoting fluid production, stimulating appetite, relieving depression, removing toxic substances, promoting granulation, regulating qi and relieving cough, and is mainly used for treating dizziness, vomiting, fever, polydipsia, qi stagnation, stomach tightness and cough.

3, rhizome, warm. Dispel wind and regulate qi, promote blood circulation and detoxify. Indications: asthma, cough, stomachache, abdominal pain, rheumatism, itching, sores and swelling, and traumatic injury. It can also relieve depression, relieve cough, eliminate phlegm and detoxify. Used for depression, upset, stagnation of liver and stomach qi, plum blossom qi, scrofula, sore poison, etc.

Chimonanthus praecox can provide us with a good recipe. Tofu stewed with wintersweet: 5 wintersweet, proper amount of tofu, 250g cooked soybean oil, shredded onion, coriander, salt and pepper. Put the pot on the fire, heat the oil, add the cut tofu strips, fry them yellow, and take them out. Pour the oil, add shredded onion, cook, add water and salt, then pour in tofu strips, stew for 5 minutes, add pepper, add wintersweet and monosodium glutamate to taste.

Chimonanthus praecox is the dry bud of Chimonanthus praecox, also known as snowflake, which usually blooms from mid-June 165438+ 10 to March of the following year, with a long flowering period.

Pick it before flowering in early spring and dry it at low temperature in time. The dried buds are round, rectangular or obovate, with a length of 1~ 1.5 cm and a width of 0.4~0.8 cm. Perianth is folded into bud-like, brown-yellow, and the lower part is covered with many membranous scales, yellow-brown, slightly triangular and slightly hairy. Delicious, slightly sweet, slightly bitter, slightly greasy.

There are two kinds of goods:

1, Chimonanthus praecox, yellow flower center, double petals, round and big petals, big flowers.

2, dog heart wintersweet, red flower heart, single petal, narrow and pointed petals, small flowers, inferior quality. It is best to have a yellow flower heart, which is complete and full, but not open. Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Sichuan and Guizhou. Chimonanthus praecox is warm and bitter.