The coltsfootsays: coltsfoot.Coltsfoot flower buds with shaped or long elliptic, buds and flowers on the handle bag with pink purple or pale brown scaly bracts several layers, color bright pink purple, flower stalk short for beautiful, flower small, color brown, a frozen, zuan in winter and whiskers.The alias winter flowers.In an open inflorescence for medicinal.

Says the origin of the

Many small pinkish purple flowers coltsfoot opened the end of the stem.But because of the very large leaves, is often used as an umbrella or sunshade tool.Therefore, coltsfoot means "justice".

Coltsfoot contact with Christianity

The director of the fourth century Bates rem convent, Santa Paula flower since ancient times, Christianity is the sage and specific flower link together of the habit, the supine in the church in honor saints, often caused by altar ornament with blooming flowers!In medieval Catholic monasteries, is like a garden center of planting all kinds of flowers, over time, the church will be 366 days of saint respectively and different flowers together, form the so-called flower calendar.

At that time most of the monasteries in southern Europe, southern Europe is Mediterranean climate, very suitable for planting flowers.Belong to the compositae coltsfoot is chosen to sacrifice to the fourth century Bates rem, dean of the convent - Santa Paula flowers.

Coltsfoot on behalf of the birthday of features (26 January)

Personality: people born on January 26, most brave, aggressive, and very controversial, they have unlimited confidence to oneself, also seem to have endless persistence to reach the goal, and never worry about meet anyone or anything.

Health: people born on this day must be very careful about their fierce and violent tendencies in nature, in the psychological sense, people born on this day, need some medical or psychological forms of training to do the effective guidance to maintain their vitality.In dietary respect, they should reduce the intake of meat and sugar, to give priority to with grains and vegetables.

Birthstone: garnet

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, coltsfoot also has high medicinal value, sexual flavour XinWen, with runfei qi, eliminating phlegm to stop the role of syndromes, smell is warm, but not dry embellish, is warm, the evil, and depression in lung and may not support the, also to conquer.So the exogenous internal injuries, not the actual situation of cough, all can apply.