The role of osmanthus tree

Osmanthus flowers bloom in August. Osmanthus is a flower with a strong fragrance. In fact, osmanthus is also a flower with many health benefits. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that osmanthus can treat loss of appetite, dysmenorrhea in women and other diseases. It can be said that the health-care effect of osmanthus is quite strong. Therefore, there are many places where osmanthus is used in daily life.

Of course, this kind of osmanthus actually grows on the osmanthus tree, so what are the uses of the osmanthus tree? In addition to being a tree with high ornamental value, what other health benefits does the osmanthus tree have? Let’s take a brief look at it together, hoping that it will help increase everyone’s understanding of the osmanthus tree.

It is recorded in Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" that osmanthus has many uses such as deodorizing, relieving pain and relieving asthma. Osmanthus is warm in nature and spicy in taste. It can be taken orally as a decoction, tea or wine. It can resolve phlegm and blood stasis. It has certain effects on loss of appetite, cough and asthma due to phlegm, bloody diarrhea due to intestinal wind, amenorrhea and abdominal pain. Cinnamon twigs, cinnamon seeds, and cinnamon roots can all be used as medicine. Guizhi Decoction, which is made of cinnamon twigs, peony, ginger, jujube and licorice, is specifically used to treat exogenous wind-cold, fever and headache. Cassia root tastes sweet and slightly astringent.

You can also enjoy the flowers when the osmanthus trees are in bloom. As early as the Tang Dynasty, appreciating osmanthus was a major folk custom. Sweet osmanthus is the flower of the Oleaceae plant Osmanthus. It is an evergreen shrub or small tree that can reach 7 meters in height. It is cultivated in most parts of my country, and autumn is its blooming season. Sweet osmanthus is very useful. As a plant, it can beautify gardens; as food, it can be used to make pastries; in addition, it has certain medicinal value and can be used to make tea or wine, or directly decocted in water. It has certain deodorizing, analgesic, and antiasthmatic effects.

According to the medical records in "Bencao Gangmu", osmanthus is pungent, warm in nature, non-toxic, and has the effect of resolving phlegm and dispersing blood stasis. In addition to being used to make osmanthus wine, it can also be used to treat phlegm, cough, and bad breath. In addition, the fruits produced after the osmanthus flowers bloom are called osmanthus seeds. They can be harvested when the fruits are about to mature, soaked in warm water, and then dried. Osmanthus seeds taste sweet, bitter and spicy, and are warm in nature. They have the effects of warming the stomach, dispelling cold and stopping filth, and can be used to treat liver and stomach pain.

There is a passage in Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica": Osmanthus can cure bad breath and is suitable for bad breath caused by chronic stomatitis or gingivitis. Prescription: 3 grams of Osmanthus, 6 grams of Patchouli, and 5 grams of Perilla. Usage: Add water to the above medicines and boil for 2 minutes. When the liquid cools down to lukewarm or cold, gargle with it 3 to 5 times a day. Function: Freshen breath, clean oral cavity, and remove bad breath. Osmanthus can cure stomach cold pain. The main symptoms of patients are pale complexion, long-term epigastric pain, which often occurs in the cold weather in winter. Hot compress can relieve the pain. The tongue is light red and the tongue coating is slightly thick. This is when osmanthus comes in handy. Prescription: 3 grams of osmanthus seeds, 4.5 grams of cloves, 6 grams each of turmeric and cyperus rotundus, 10 grams of roasted licorice, and 12 grams of atractylodes. Usage: Add water to the above-mentioned medicines (Note: cloves should be added later) and boil them into 300 ml. Take it warm twice a day. It can also be adjusted appropriately according to the syndrome and symptoms. For example, if there is long-term pain, 15 grams each of Lithospermum officinale and Houttuynia cordata can be added to prevent malignant transformation; if the stool is black like tar, 9 grams of raw Panax notoginseng powder can be added (swallowed in 2 times) to stop bleeding and pain, and pay attention to dietary adjustment.

In general, the effect of osmanthus is very significant. It is precisely because osmanthus has so many health-preserving effects that the application of osmanthus in health-preserving in daily life can be said to be quite high. Of course, as a traditional Chinese medicine that can treat diseases, osmanthus actually has many requirements for daily application. Therefore, if you want to use osmanthus, it is best to consult a relevant expert first.