花菜又名花椰菜，乃甘蓝的一个变种。潮汕人称之为“洋花菜”。古代的西方人将具有爽喉、开音、止咳、润肺功效的花菜，推崇为“天赐的良医”、“穷人的医生”。早在18世纪时，欧洲的一位内科医师布哈尔夫就将蜂蜜调入煮熟了的花菜嫩茎叶汁中治咳嗽和肺结核病，当时此药享誉医药界， Cauliflower, also known as broccoli, is a variant of cabbage. Chaoshan people call it “American broccoli.” Westerners in ancient times will have cauliflowers that have cool-throat, open sound, cough-inducing, and lung-enhancing effects. They are highly praised as “good doctors” and “poor doctors.” As early as the eighteenth century, a physician from Europe, Bouharf, transferred honey to boiled stems and leaves of cooked cauliflower to cure cough and tuberculosis. At that time, the drug was known to the medical community.