What are the uses of osmanthus fruit?

Everyone is familiar with osmanthus trees. In autumn, the rich fragrance of osmanthus flowers can always be seen drifting to every corner. In addition, osmanthus can also be used to make tea or made into various foods. The fruit of the osmanthus tree, also known as osmanthus fruit, also has many uses. It can be used as medicine and can be used to extract oil. However, osmanthus fruit is rarely eaten directly. Because the taste of osmanthus fruit is relatively poor.

1. How to prepare osmanthus fruit for eating

Osmanthus fruit can be used as medicine and can also be used to extract oil.

Generally, the fruits of osmanthus trees are not edible but are used as medicinal materials. The fruit of the cassia tree is used as medicine and has the effects of resolving phlegm, promoting rhythm, warming the stomach and calming the liver.

If you eat it raw, it is edible, but the taste is not that good. Although the osmanthus fruit looks like grapes, its taste is really bad. The green osmanthus fruit tastes astringent and bitter. Even when it is ripe, the sweetness is average. Therefore, many ripe osmanthus fruits are not picked and eaten directly. If they tasted good, they would have been picked up long ago.

2. What are the uses of osmanthus fruit?

The fruit of osmanthus also has great functions. It is a very important medicine. It has the functions of moistening the lungs and relieving pain. If used as medicine, it can eliminate phlegm and promote salivation.

The fruit of osmanthus is called osmanthus, which is very attractive to look at. If you peel the cassia seeds gently, you can smell a faint fragrance, but in fact, the fruit cannot be eaten directly.

3. The efficacy and function of osmanthus fruit

The fruit of the osmanthus tree is used as medicine and has the effects of resolving phlegm, promoting rhythm, warming the stomach and calming the liver. Applying the decoction of branches, leaves and roots to the affected area can invigorate muscles and bones, relieve pain, and treat rheumatism, numbness and other symptoms. The wood of osmanthus is dense, has beautiful texture, is not easy to crack, and has a smooth planed surface, making it an excellent material for carving.

Osmanthus has a certain resistance to harmful gases such as chlorine, sulfur dioxide, and hydrogen fluoride, and has a strong ability to absorb dust. It is often used in cities and industrial and mining areas.

After the osmanthus flowers are dried, they can be used to make tea. Osmanthus tea has a refreshing fragrance.

After being slightly scalded in boiling water, the osmanthus flowers are picked up and dried, crushed with sugar, and sealed in a bottle to preserve their color and aroma. They can be used as a food spice.

Mix osmanthus, pure lotus root powder and white sugar to make osmanthus lotus root powder, which is delicious and appetizing. Take high-quality jujubes, add sugar and cook, when the soup is almost finished, add osmanthus flowers, and you will get osmanthus candied dates that are good for the spleen and appetite.

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.

Osmanthus tea can beautify your skin

, soothe the throat, improve symptoms of excessive phlegm and cough, treat duodenal ulcer, urticaria, stomach cold and stomach pain, bad breath, and blurred vision.

Osmanthus tea has a refreshing fragrance. After being slightly scalded in boiling water, the osmanthus flowers are picked up and dried, crushed with sugar, and sealed in a bottle to preserve their color and aroma. They can be used as a food spice.