What are the benefits of osmanthus? Osmanthus fragrans is a common flower, belonging to the top ten traditional flowers in China, with various varieties. Flowers belong to the evergreen shrub of Oleaceae, native to southwest China, but many people don't know what the effect of osmanthus is, so what are the benefits of osmanthus?
What are the benefits of osmanthus? 1 1, the function of warming the lung and transforming the drink.
Osmanthus fragrans is pungent and warm, and enters the lung meridian. He is good at warming lung, removing dampness and resolving phlegm, and is suitable for treating bronchitis and cough.
2, the role of dispelling cold and relieving pain
Osmanthus fragrans powder is pungent and can dispel cold and relieve pain. Can be used for treating all cold diseases of abdomen, such as epigastric pain, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, cold hernia, abdominal pain, etc. It can also dispel wind, remove dampness and dispel cold, and can be used to treat rheumatism, lumbago, toothache due to kidney deficiency, etc.
3. Fresh breath
Osmanthus fragrans has a pleasant fragrance. Drinking in water can make people stay fragrant and eliminate oral odor.
4. Beautiful and beautiful
Osmanthus fragrans is obviously helpful for skin care in beauty beauty. Drinking osmanthus regularly helps to beautify and improve the skin. In addition, osmanthus is steamed with sesame oil, which can be used as facial fat and can be used for beauty and skin care.
5, dietotherapy effect
Osmanthus fragrans is rich in fragrance and contains a variety of spices, so it can also be used for diet therapy or extracting spices. The glutinous rice porridge in Diet Changes is made of 30 grams of glutinous rice. After the rice is cooked, add a little starch paste, and then add some sugar and osmanthus. It has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, invigorating spleen and relieving arthralgia, and is suitable for people with edema, oliguria or venous arthralgia caused by damp heat.
In addition, Osmanthus fragrans can also be used to make wine, tea and Osmanthus Jelly.
6. Relieve your emotions
Osmanthus fragrans has its unique floral fragrance. Brewing osmanthus fragrans into osmanthus fragrans and drinking it for a long time can relieve people's emotions, eliminate depression, balance their physical and mental emotions and relieve mental stress.
7. Other functions
Osmanthus fragrans can be used as an additive and widely used in cakes, sweets, preserves, tea, wine and other foods. Osmanthus fragrans has a fresh fragrance, which is of great benefit to improving the ecological environment. Nowadays, osmanthus fragrans has become a raw material for refining spices, making soap, perfume and cosmetics.
What osmanthus is the best?
Osmanthus fragrans, also known as "Osmanthus fragrans", is an evergreen shrub or small tree family, belonging to temperate tree species. Leaves opposite, mostly oval or oblong. The leaves are smooth and tough with serrated edges. The crown is spherical, the stem is thick, gray and white, and the flowers are clustered.
Flowers are axillary cymes, small and fragrant, and their colors vary with varieties. There are osmanthus fragrans with vigorous growth, thick branches, large leaves, rough leaves, dark green and orange red colors; Medium growth, smooth leaves, serrated leaves and milky white osmanthus. Its flowers are dense and sweet; There is also' Osmanthus fragrans', which grows vigorously, with light yellow flowers, sparse flowers and light fragrance. From September to autumn, 10 can bloom at the same time with Dangui and Yin Gui, or once every two to three months.
Dangui and Sijigui, the fruit is purple-black drupe, commonly known as "Guizi". The "Han Gui" in Hanzhong is a leader in Guangxi, well-known at home and abroad, and well-known in Kyushu. Hanzhong is a famous "hometown of osmanthus" at home and abroad.
Distribution: It is native to southwest and central China, and is now widely planted in the Yangtze River basin. There are wild species in southwest China, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong and Hubei provinces.
Sexual preference for warm and humid climate, high temperature resistance but not cold resistance. Leaves are lush and trees live long. Flowers bloom in autumn, and the flowers are overflowing. It is a unique ornamental flower in China. It is also called incense tree.
The requirements for soil are not strict, except for alkaline soil and low-lying land or soil that is too sticky and poorly drained, it can generally be planted. But it is suitable for slightly acidic sandy soil with deep soil layer, loose and fertile soil and good drainage.
So how many varieties of osmanthus are there?
1, Jingui: Jin Guihua is golden yellow with strong smell and thick leaves.
Its population includes: autumn flowering, lemon yellow to golden yellow. There are varieties such as "big flower Jingui", "big leaf yellow", "Huangchuan Jingui" and "round leaf Jingui".
2. Yin Gui: The flowers are white, slightly yellow, with strong smell and thin leaves.
Its population includes: autumn flowering, pure white, milky white, yellow white, light yellow, and there are varieties such as "Ziyingui (seed setting)", "Jiulong Gui", "Zaoyingui", "Late Yingui" and "Baijie".
3, Dangui: flowering in autumn, dark color; The color is orange yellow, orange red to vermilion, and the smell is moderate.
The population includes: osmanthus fragrans, osmanthus fragrans, cinnabar osmanthus fragrans and Rhododendron latifolia.
There are some varieties worth popularizing in each variety group. Such as "osmanthus fragrans" and "Phyllostachys macrophylla" of osmanthus fragrans varieties in four seasons. "Osmanthus fragrans" is named after its pale yellow flowers, which bloom on the same ten branches one after another, and flowers appear almost every day. "Big-leaf Buddha's Dingzhu" has milky white to pure white flowers, dense inflorescences and unique terminal inflorescences, which bloom continuously from spring to autumn. High ornamental value.
In fact, osmanthus is not good or bad. My predecessors in the osmanthus world, such as Yue Lao, Lao Nong, Jinqiao, Migratory Birds and Moon Shadow, all said: osmanthus has something to say; There is no distinction between high and low in Guangxi products, just to appreciate the artistic conception of Guangxi people!
Those who like osmanthus flowers should choose high-yield and dense flowers for the purpose of picking flowers. Such as "Huangchuan Jingui", "Jingui", "Seed Silver Gui", "Big Flower Dangui" and "Orange Red Dangui".
If you want to see the flowers and smell the fragrance, choose Osmanthus fragrans, Osmanthus fragrans, Osmanthus cinnabarinus, Osmanthus fragrans and Osmanthus fragrans.
For potted plants and bonsai, you can choose "Japanese Osmanthus fragrans", "Big Leaf Buddha's Fixed Pearl", "laurel tree", "Kowloon Osmanthus fragrans" and "Liu Osmanthus".
When it is used as the main scene of trees or courtyards, it is selected as "Huangyingui with big leaves", "Jingui", "Dangui with big leaves" and "Orange-red Dangui".
The current osmanthus seedling market is chaotic! The quantity of large seedlings is small, the price is high, the market is flooded with small seedlings, and the price is low; Choose a good type, high survival rate, high quality seedlings are difficult to ball! Inferior seedlings with poor appearance and poor stability abound! There is no guarantee that such a young plant will survive!
What are the benefits of osmanthus? 2 efficacy and function of osmanthus fragrans.
Medicinal value:
Osmanthus fragrans bark can also be used as medicine. The bark of the stems of plants must be peeled off and then boiled to form soup. A liquid is produced, which can be placed on the skin and anywhere on the body. The boiling point used in treatment promotes healing. The buds, skins and leaves of osmanthus fragrans can be used as medicine. Osmanthus fragrans is thought to stimulate the immune system and relieve sore throat. Judging from the efficacy and function of this plant's tea, it has been used to make tea for a long time, and it is safe for people to eat.
Whether for external use or oral use, the efficacy and function of osmanthus fragrans are very valuable. Other main effects and functions are: invigorating stomach and resolving phlegm, promoting fluid production and resolving phlegm, and calming the liver. Used for phlegm-dampness cough, diarrhea due to intestinal wind and blood, toothache, halitosis, anorexia, amenorrhea and abdominal pain. The "osmanthus dew" distilled from osmanthus fragrans can regulate qi and liver, strengthen spleen and stimulate appetite. Can be used for treating halitosis and throat diseases.
Food health:
Osmanthus fragrans has a very good prospect as food and fitness: as an additive, it has been widely used in our daily life, such as cakes, sweets, tea, wine, drinks and so on; Osmanthus fragrans has a delicious aroma, which has played a very good role in our life and ecological environment. Its refined spices can be used as raw materials to make soap, perfume and even cosmetics, and now it has entered the international market.
Edible soup:
Similar decocting process can be used to prepare osmanthus fragrans root for treatment. This liquid is more effective than soup stalks and is usually used to help speed up the healing process of bruises or sprains and other injuries.
Pain caused by menstruation or arthritis can also be treated with this liquid. This treatment is generally considered safe. Guizhi Guizi Guizi Guizi Guigen can be used as medicine. Guizhi decoction is made of cassia twig, white peony root, ginger, jujube and licorice, and can be used to treat exogenous pathogenic wind and kidney deficiency. Cinnamomum cassia root may treat muscle pain, rheumatic pain, numbness and other diseases.