Alias camellia oleifera and tea tree.
It comes from Camellia oleifera. [Thea Oleosa Lour。 ], a vegetable oil tea of Camellia of Theaceae, is used as root and tea seed cake for medicine. Root bark can be taken at any time, fresh or dried and ground; Fruits are picked in autumn, dried in the sun, seeded, processed into oil and used as medicine together with tea cakes.
The taste is bitter and flat. A little poisonous. Flowers and root bark are hardly toxic.
Functional indication
Clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and relieving pain.
Root: used for acute pharyngolaryngitis, stomachache and sprain.
Tea cake: external use to treat skin itching, extract to kill snails and fly maggots.