Plumeria / frangipani (dried)

The dried flower of the frangipani tree, its cream-and-yolk-yellow petals curling to parchment as they dry. Delicately floral and faintly sweet, it is one of the five flowers of the classic cooling tea and suits light brews rather than heavy soups.

TCM properties

Nature · cooling　Flavour · sweet　Meridians · lung、large intestine

Traditional food therapy

A five-flower-tea regular: Cantonese tradition brews it in humid weather to clear heat, ease damp, moisten the lungs and cool the summer.

Cautions — read first

• Not for a weak spleen with loose stools
• Not much of it in the dry seasons of autumn and winter

Preparation

Soak and rinse the dried flowers.

Origin

廣東、海南、廣西（原產美洲熱帶，嶺南引種入藥）

Availability in Australia

Herbal shops / specialists

Pairs well with