Lilies

The British poet William Blake once wrote beautiful lines about a lily, which fully revealed the symbolism of the flower: The rose has a thorn for the enemy, And the lamb has horns. But pure lily is so unarmed, And she needs nothing but love. The first and most common meaning of lilies is unconditional love and loyalty. Knights gave a flower to their beloved ladies as a sign of their heart's devotion. Hence the tradition of giving lilies for the wedding anniversary or for the wedding ceremony itself as a talisman of marital relations. Lily's deep Christian roots have made her a symbol of fertility and motherhood. So, in the West and in Europe, this flower is a traditional gift for Mother's Day, which speaks of the tender and sacrificial love of our parents. Other meanings of the flower include rebirth, passion, purity and belonging to the aristocracy. The Greek and Roman cultures also treated the lily with great respect: for them, the flower, first of all, was a powerful medicine. It relieves various skin ailments, and is also effective as an analgesic, soothing, choleretic, expectorant and hemostatic agent. In traditional Chinese medicine, flower root extract is included in most preparations.