Health benefits of Tonkin creeper flower

Health benefits of Tonkin creeper flower

Tonkin creeper flowers are often used as a vegetable, grown very commonly, not only delicious but also bring many great health benefits.

Tonkin creeper plant, also known as jasmine, is a herbaceous plant, belonging to the vine family, thin, without tendrils, with a stem length of 1 – 10m, yellowish green color, when young it has fluff and sap. When old, it is light gray in color, hairless, and has sparse small spongy nodes on its body.

The leaves grow opposite, heart-shaped, thin and soft, green in color. There are many Tonkin creeper flowers, growing in canopy-like cymes in the leaf axils, light green yellow, petals forming long tubes, with a cool scent. Long-seeded fruit.

The Tonkin creeper tree usually flowers in the summer, most often around July. People often grow Tonkin creeper for ornamental purposes and use the flowers and leaves as cooking ingredients to both prevent and cure many diseases. In addition, all parts of the plant can be used as medicine, fresh or dried.

Effects of Tonkin creeper flower on health

According to Oriental medicine, Tonkin creeper flowers have a sweet taste, neutral properties, and have the effect of cooling, sedating, and reducing back pain… As for modern medicine, Tonkin creeper flowers have diverse nutritional ingredients including: fiber. , protein, vitamin C, B vitamins, calcium, iron, zinc… Therefore, eating Tonkin creeper flowers has very good health effects , such as:

Treatment of bone and joint pain

For people with bone and joint diseases, both leaves and flowers should be used for the best results.

Supports weight loss

Tonkin creeper flowers contain a lot of fiber, chlorophyll and are low in calories, so eating dishes made from Tonkin creeper flowers will make you feel fuller than usual, effectively limiting your ability to absorb fat.

Improve insomnia

To treat insomnia, you need to prepare about 30-50 grams of each type of Tonkin creeper flower and Neong Nem leaves, wash them and cook them together. You can add pork and crucian carp to improve health and appetite. than. After that, continuous use for 1 week will be effective.

Treating leprosy

Hemorrhoids, also known as hemorrhoids, people often use 100 grams of young leaves, washed and crushed with salt, add 50ml of filtered water, then filter to get the water. Then use cotton to soak it in and apply it directly to the hemorrhoids.

Note that before performing this step, you must clean it thoroughly with diluted warm salt water. Then use a bandage to fix it and leave it overnight. Do this continuously for 4 to 6 days to see results.

Prevent pinworms

For the pinworm treatment, we prepare 30g of Tonkin creeper flowers, 25g of polyscias fruticosa, and 20g of purslane. Take everything, wash it and drain it, decoct the water and drink the medicine 3 times a day, drink continuously for 3 days. Besides, you can take young leaves of Tonkin creeper to cook soup for children to eat continuously for 1 week or more, so that Tonkin creeper can promote its effective effects.

Treat pimples

Take fresh celery leaves, crush them and apply them directly to the pimples. Do this continuously until the pimple completely disappears.

According to traditional medicine, the leaves, flowers and plants have the following uses:

In addition to the effects of the Tonkin creeper flower, other parts of the Tonkin creeper plant can also be used as medicine. Such as:

Tonkin creeper leaves: Has an orange, neutral taste. Uses to help relieve inflammation, reduce bone and joint pain, treat external hemorrhoids, keratitis, and promote rapid skin growth. Some people also use Tonkin creeper leaves to cook soup, but it is not as popular as Tonkin creeper flowers.

Tonkin creeper root: Often used as a medicine to treat frequent urination, white residue, and blood in urine.

Notes when using Tonkin creeper plant

Although Tonkin creeper flowers are considered benign and safe for health, Tonkin creeper flowers should not be abused. According to nutrition experts, you should only consume 1-2 servings of Tonkin creeper flowers in a week, do not eat them continuously every day.

When preparing dishes from Tonkin creeper flowers to treat joint pain, you should not combine them with iron-containing foods such as liver, pork, water spinach, etc. Because the iron in these foods will push zinc out of the body. can.

When preparing Tonkin creeper flowers, do not overcook them as it will reduce nutrition and not be effective in treatment.