Forsythia

Lockdown 3
Yes!! The forsythia is out against a blue blue sky. How cheering is that! 
Last night we watched Contagion , a film about a respiratory pandemic made in 2011. One of the characters was a journalist promoting the use of Forsythia  as a cure. I looked it up. Apparently it is a herbal remedy for respiratory ailments( and pretty much everything else it seems) in Chinese and other remedies.
 However WebMD states
“ Forsythia is used for airway illnesses, swelling, fever and other conditions. But there is no good scientific research to support any use.”
Pity that.