Scientific name basil

Alias: Jin Bubai (Meizhou, Chaoshan), stinking Su (Chaoyang), cilantro (Puning), fish lettuce (Shantou, Jieyang), Jiu Lian Ta (Puning, Jieyang, Guangzhou, Shantou, Chaoyang), fish lettuce, cilantro, Jiu Lian Ta, Guangming Zi, Jin Bubai (Nan'ao), fish herbs, basil (Huiyang), orchid incense (known as orchid incense in some parts of the northern part of China).

The basil is a medicinal and food aromatic plant, tastes like fennel, the whole plant is small, the leaves are bright green, the flowers are bright and fragrant. It has a powerful, stimulating and fragrant odor, and has the function of dispersing wind and moving qi, dissolving dampness and eliminating food, activating blood circulation and detoxifying.

Jinbuhua leaves fried snail mussels as a spice to solve snail and mussel poisoning.