The efficacy and function of square olive

We are all familiar with square olives. Not only are they edible, but they also have very high medicinal effects. Eating square olives regularly can have very good health-preserving and health-care effects.

[Alias] Triangle olive.

[Source] Medicinal material source: The fruit of the Oleaceae plant Olea europaea.

[Original form] Square olive tree, 15-25m high. The twigs have lenticels, and the young branches are sparsely gray and pubescent. Odd-pinnate compound leaves are alternate; stipules are subulate, pubescent, and caducous; leaflets are 5-6 (-10) pairs, hard papery, oblong to obovate-lanceolate, 10-20cm long, 4.5-6cm wide, apex suddenly narrowed and acuminate, with the tip 1-1.5cm long, base rounded, oblique, often decurrent on one side, margin wavy or entire, glabrous above, pubescent beneath; veins covered with spreading stiff hairs and pubescent, but sometimes almost glabrous. Flowers are unisexual, dioecious, inflorescences are axillary, female inflorescences are unknown; male inflorescences are narrow thyrses, 30-40 cm long; flowers are about 7 mm long; calyx lobes are triangular; stamens are 6, glabrous, and filaments are more than half fused; the disk is tubular in male flowers, 1.5-1.8 mm high, with densely erect stiff hairs on the edge and outside, and annular, 3-lobed, and fringed in female flowers; the pistil is small in male flowers and densely pubescent. The drupe is green, fusiform, with 3 ribs, or obovate with 3-4 ribs, 4.5-5cm long, 1.8-2cm wide, glabrous, with an acute or truncated to concave apex, and with a persistent stigma. 1-2 seeds. Fruiting period is July to October.

【Habitat distribution】Ecological environment: Distributed in Guangxi, Yunnan and other places.

【Nature and flavor】 Sour; sweet, astringent; neutral

【Functions and indications】 Clears the lungs and relieves sore throat; promotes the production of body fluids and quenches thirst. Sore throat, cough, thirst

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decocted in water, 3-9g.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

This article introduces to us what Fanglan is. We know that Fanglan has a very high medicinal effect, but we must remind everyone that Fanglan is generally not to be eaten indiscriminately, otherwise it will cause serious consequences. I hope everyone will treat it with caution.