What is the use of osmanthus fragrans?

Sweet-scented osmanthus is one of the top ten traditional flowers in China, which integrates greening, beautification and fragrance into an excellent garden tree species with both ornamental and practical features. It is widely used in garden construction. The sweet-scented osmanthus tea made from sweet-scented osmanthus is also loved by the public. Let's take a look at the use of sweet-scented osmanthus.

Medicinal value of Osmanthus fragrans

Sweet-scented osmanthus is used as medicine in flowers, fruits and roots, picking flowers in autumn, picking fruits in spring, picking roots in the four seasons and drying them respectively. It has the effect of dispelling cold and breaking knot, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. it is used for toothache, cough and dyspnea, dysmenorrhea and abdominal pain. Fruity pungent, sweet, warm, with the effect of warming the stomach, calming the liver and dispelling cold, for deficiency and cold stomachache. Root sweet, slightly astringent, sexual flat, with the effect of dispelling rheumatism and dispelling cold, for rheumatic muscle and bone pain, low back pain, kidney deficiency toothache and other diseases.

Dietary effect of Osmanthus fragrans

Sweet-scented osmanthus can make cakes, candies and wine. Common practices include glutinous rice sweet-scented osmanthus lotus root, sweet-scented osmanthus yellow forest crisp, sweet-scented osmanthus cake, wolfberry sweet-scented osmanthus tea, sweet-scented osmanthus purple potato glutinous rice, sweet-scented osmanthus milk tofu, sweet-scented osmanthus wine brewed fine round seed, roasted sweet-scented osmanthus sausage, sweet-scented osmanthus Almond Jelly, sweet-scented osmanthus small bean porridge and so on. The ancients believed that osmanthus is the best medicine, so the wine brewed with sweet-scented osmanthus can achieve the effect of "drinking a thousand years of life". Sweet-scented osmanthus tea can nourish beauty, relieve throat, improve phlegm and cough symptoms, treat duodenal ulcer, Reed measles, stomach cold and stomachache, bad breath, unclear vision and so on.

Garden use of Osmanthus fragrans

Sweet-scented osmanthus is evergreen all the year round, with luxuriant branches and luxuriant leaves, blooming in autumn and overflowing with fragrance. It is widely used in gardens. It is often used as landscape trees, such as solitary planting, opposite planting, and forest planting in clumps. In Chinese classical gardens, it is often matched with buildings, mountains and stone machines, and tufted shrubby plants are planted near pavilions, platforms, buildings and pavilions. Sweet-scented osmanthus in ancient Chinese poems, the number of works of chanting cinnamon is also considerable, and it has been deeply loved by the Chinese people since ancient times, which means lofty, beautiful, auspicious, friendly, loyal people, straight and unyielding, fairy friends, fairy guests and so on.