Among gymnosperms in Taiwan Province Province, Pinaceae plants include Pinus armandii, Pinus massoniana, Pinus pentaphylla and Pinus taiwanensis. The pine trees widely used for garden bonsai and food belong to the five-needle pine in Taiwan Province Province.
Adding juice made of lemon and honey to the leaves of five-leaf pine needles can not only relieve summer heat and quench thirst, but it is said that some people with mild stroke will not recover after drinking for three months. Mainly because the leaves of five-leaf pine needles are long fibers, rich in unsaturated fatty acids, which can purify the stomach and neutralize the acidic fat in the blood, it has excellent effect on people with mild stroke and is also very suitable for ordinary people as a common drink. The Japanese also found that pine needles have many functions, from hangover, bad breath and low back pain to lowering cholesterol and preventing Alzheimer's disease, etc. So it set off a Japanese atmosphere of drinking pine leaf juice and soaking pine needles.