Dendranthema Flower and applications.Dendranthema Flower Extract.

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Actions and Applications of Chrysanthemum.Dendranthema.

Dendranthema Flower Extract INCI Name Chrysanthellum Indicum Extract CAS 223748-24-1 photo picture image Actions Indications:rid of fire and toxicity. Used in sore swollen throats, red eyes caused by wind fire, boils, carbuncles and sores

 Medical Function:

 *antibiotic effect against Staphylococcus aureus, Shigella spp. and ECHO viruses
 *anti excitatory effects of adrenal system
 *lower blood pressure
 *dilate peripheral blood vessels
 *Clears away heat and removes toxic substances.
 *The plant to treat eye ailments. In conjunction with black pepper it is used in the treatment of gonorrhoea.
 *The leaves are depurative. They are used in the treatment of migraine

 Medicinal Uses:Antiphlogistic; Aperient; Bitter; Blood tonic; Depurative; Febrifuge; Ophthalmic; Stomachic; VD; Vulnerary.

 The whole plant is antiphlogistic, blood tonic, depurative, febrifuge and vulnerary. The plant is used in China to treat eye ailments. In conjunction with black pepper it is used in the treatment of gonorrhoea. The leaves are depurative. They are used in China in the treatment of migraine. The flowers are aperient, bitter, hypotensive, stomachic and vasodilator. They contain the glycoside chrysanthemin that yields glucose and cyanidin on hydrolysis, together with stachydrine and an essential oil. They have an antibacterial action, inhibiting the growth of Staphylococcus, E. coli, streptococcus, C. diphtheriae, Bacillus dysenteriae. The flowers are used in the treatment of furuncle, scrofula, deep-rooted boils, inflammation of the throat, eyes and cervix, eczema, itchiness of the skin and hypertension. They have a rejuvenating effect when used over a long period of time. An essential oil obtained from the plant contains chrysanthenone, this is active on the brain centre affected by Parkinson's disease.

 Edible Uses:

 Edible Parts: Flowers; Leaves; Seed. Edible Uses: Tea.

 The flower heads are pickled in vinegar. Young leaves - cooked. An aromatic tea is made from the leaves. Seed. No more details are given but it is very small and would be rather fiddly to use.
 Dendranthema Flower Extract INCI Name Chrysanthellum Indicum Extract CAS 223748-24-1 photo picture image

 Other Uses:Oil:The seed contains about 16% of a semi-drying oil, but no information is given as to its uses. The seed is rather small, commercial extraction is probably not viable.

 Applications:

 1. To treat boils, carbuncle, furuncles, scabies and erysipelas:

 This herb can be used alone or the fresh herb can be mashed for application onto the affected part. It can also be used with dandelion (Herba Taraxaci), Chinese violet (Herba Violae), honeysuckle flower (Flos Lonicerae), etc., e.g., Wuwei Xiaodu Yin.

 2. To treat sore throat and acute conjunctivitis due to upward attacks of toxic heat:

 (A) Sore Throat: Use it with dandelion (Herba Taraxaci), Chinese violet (Herba Violae), weeping forsythia fruit (Fructus Forsythiae), etc.

 (B) Acute conjunctivitis due to wind and fire mutually stirred up: Use it with honeysuckle flower (Flos Lonicerae), pale butterflybush flower (Flos Buddlejae), selfheal spica (Spica Prunellae), etc., e.g., Jinhuang Xigan Tang in the book "Proven Recipes".

 3. Miscellaneous: In addition, this herb can also be taken orally and decocted for external washing for the treatment of skin itching, such as eczema:

 Although perennial in warmer climates listed, usually grown as a seasonal annual for fall bloom or small pots of color in spring; varieties here grown for outdoors with different ones for indoor pot and cut forcing; requires short days (long nights) to bloom with differences among varieties-- early fall blooming ones require shorter nights than those blooming later; pinch back to encourage branching and denser growth--no later than July 15 in zone 4, August 15 in zone 9; division every 3-4 years may be beneficial.

 4. Benefit and difference/similarity between/of Chrysanthemum morifolium and Chrysanthemum indicum:

 Chrysanthemum does indeed have medicinal effects. In Chinese traditional medicine, several different species are used. The most commonly used one is Chrysanthemum morifolium, the species from which decorative potted mums so widely grown in the West are derived. This herb is known as "ju hua" and its flowers help to increase blood flow by increasing coronary vasodilation. It also has antibacterial and antipyretic (temperature lowering) properties. In southern China chrysanthemum tea is very popular during the summer, probably because of its cooling effect. It is also widely taken form the common cold, headache, dizziness, red eye, swelling, angina pectoris and hypertension, according Kee Chang Huang, author of The Pharmacognosy of Chinese Herbs (CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida; 1999).

 Other species of Chrysanthemum have similar properties. The flowers of Chrysanthemum indicum, C. boreale, and C. lavandulaefolium are known as "yao jiu hua". They have antihypertensive properties also, but the method of preparation is a little diffierent: the medicine is prepared with alcohol, not water as in the case of C. morifolium. Tablets made with these herbs are typically taken for hypertensive symptoms such as headache, insomnia and dizziness. And the herb is widely used for the common cold, like C. morifolium is, and is used for flu and meningitis.

 Reference Materials:Corpus of Discussions on Herbals:

 "Removing blood stasis, soothing the liver, relieving furunculosis, expelling toxic substances, dispersing the blood accumulated in a woman's abdomen, relieving erysipelas due to fire-toxin, washing boils and scabies, dispelling wind and killing parasites."

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last edit date:19th,May.2009.