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215 Rose Flower
When rose flowers are used as a beverage, they need to be cold-brewed or quickly steeped in hot water. This way of brewing brings out the rose aroma, and the taste is relatively smooth.
But for our medicine tasting, we still simulate the decoction scenario. So, long steeping will result in the astringent taste as it is now.
Although there is some bitterness and astringency, the scent still has a sweet fragrance.
I generally don’t use it in prescriptions because its qi-moving and blood-activating strength is too mild. When decocted with a group of herbs, it can’t bring out any flavor advantage, and it’s not cheap. No matter how you choose, it doesn’t get included.
As a tea substitute, for some romantically inclined female friends, the three words “rose flower” themselves work well. Usually there’s not a serious illness. Doing Chinese medicine health preservation is about “ancient style,” paired with rose flower, it brings a lingering romantic feeling—so in Little Red Book substitute tea drink formulas, rose flower is definitely a high-frequency herb.
Confirmed effects: relatively weak qi-moving and blood-activating effect, can open the Liver meridian, Gallbladder meridian, and Bladder meridian.
216 Plum Blossom
Not tasty, bitter and astringent, with a slightly bitter almond aftertaste.
Effects: clears the lung and benefits the throat, a special medicine for treating vocal cord polyps, postnasal drip, and other pharyngeal inflammations. Usually 10g is enough for prescriptions.
Throat-clearing medicine should be used sparingly and with clarity, not turbid or excessive. Here’s a substitute tea: Ginseng 6g, Ophiopogon 6g, Honeysuckle 6g, Platycodon 6g, Plum Blossom 3g, Loquat fruit 1 piece; soak in 500ml hot water for 1 hour, dilute to a suitable taste.
283 Chinese Rose (Monthly Rose)
I can’t tell the difference, really can’t tell. Except that it’s bigger, it looks very much like a rose.
Its effect is stronger than rose flower. It truly moves qi and activates blood, soothes the liver and relieves depression, and has an immediate effect on unblocking the uterine area.
So naming is very important. Among Rosaceae plants, rose, wild rose, and crabapple are more popular than Chinese rose and photinia. Cherry and loquat prices are higher than apple, papaya, apricot, and plum.
Because many literary youth and many Chinese medicine doctors only understand something based on its name and haven’t seen the actual object, a good name easily forms an image in the mind (regardless of whether the image is accurate), which naturally helps to spread and use it more widely.