Olive is a plant with very high edible value. Both olive fruit and olive root have the effect of treating sore throat. Olive fruit can also promote body fluids and detoxify, and olive root can also treat athlete's foot. However, it is said that There are so many benefits.

1. Medicinal value of olive fruit

Ingredients: The fruit contains 1.2% protein, 1.09% fat, 12% carbohydrate, 0.204% calcium, 0.046% phosphorus, and 0.0014% iron. Ascorbic acid 0.02%. The seeds contain 7 to 8% volatile oil, as well as aromatic resin alcohol, etc.

Functions: Clearing the lungs, soothing the throat, promoting fluid production, and detoxifying. Treats sore throat, polydipsia, cough and vomiting blood, dysentery, epilepsy, and relieves pufferfish poison and alcohol poisoning.

①Meng Shen: "It is mainly used for pufferfish poison, and the juice is taken."

②"Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Appetizing, lowering qi, and stopping diarrhea."

③ "Kaibao Materia Medica": "It is mainly used to eliminate alcohol."

④ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Chew the juice and swallow it to treat fish."

⑤ "Southern Yunnan" "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Cure all inflammation of throat fire and big head plague. It can relieve dampness and heat, spring warmth, produce fluid and quench thirst, relieve phlegm, and relieve fish poison, wine, and stagnation."

⑥"Compendium" : "Cure sore throat, chew the throat juice, it can detoxify all fish and turtle poisons."

⑦ "Materia Medica Tongxuan": "Consolidate essence."

⑧ "Ben Jing Feng Yuan" : "Causes acne."

⑨ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Smoothes the liver and appetite, moistens the lungs and nourishes yin, eliminates phlegm and regulates qi, relieves coughs, and cures vomiting of blood."

⑩ "Suixiju Diet Book": "Cools the gallbladder and relieves convulsions."

⑾ "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": "To treat neuropathy and epilepsy, boil it with alum and make a liquid ointment." Usage and dosage: Take orally: decoction Decoction, 1.5 to 3 yuan; grind the remaining properties into powder, pound into juice or make a paste. For external use: grind the remaining properties into powder and apply for application.

2. Medicinal value of olive root

Also known as white olive root.

Source of medicinal materials: It is the root of the olive plant Canarium album (Lour.) Raeusch.

Olive in its original form is an evergreen tree, 10-20m high. Adhesive aromatic resin. The bark is light gray and smooth; the young branches, petioles and impellers are all covered with very short pubescence and have lenticels. Odd pinnate compound leaves alternate, 15-30cm long; leaflets 11-15, oblong-lanceolate, 6-15cm long, 2.5-5cm wide, apex acuminate, base oblique, entire margin, bald, with veins on both sides All are obvious, and there are small dimples on the lower veins, which are slightly rough. Panicle terminal or axillary, as long as the leaves or slightly shorter; calyx cup-shaped, 3-lobed, rarely 5-lobed; petals 3-5 white, fragrant, about twice as long as the calyx; stamens 6, inserted in the ring Disk lateral; pistil 1, ovary superior. The drupe is oval, about 3cm long, yellow-green at first, then turns yellow-white, with sharp points at both ends. The flowering period is from May to July and the fruiting period is from August to October.

Habitat distribution and ecological environment: It grows in low-altitude mixed wood forests and is cultivated.

Slightly bitter in nature and flavor; neutral

Functions include dispelling rheumatism, relaxing muscles and collaterals, and benefiting throat. Mainly used for rheumatic arthralgia; numbness of hands and feet; athlete's foot; sore throat

Usage and dosage Oral administration: decoction, 15-30g. External use: appropriate amount, boil in water and gargle.

Excerpt from "Chinese Materia Medica"

3. How to eat olives

Stewed lean meat with olives and pears

Ingredients: 109g of olives and pears 351g lean meat 158g Accessories: 1 candied date

Method:

1. Put the lean meat into a soup pot and add appropriate amount of water. Cover the pot and bring to a boil over high heat.

2. Blanch it, pick it up, and wash the lean meat and the soup pot again.

3. Put the lean meat into the soup pot again and add an appropriate amount of water at one time.

4. Wash the Chaoshan olives and cut them in half. Place in stock pot.

5. Wash the pear, peel, core and cut into pieces. Place in stock pot.

6. Rinse the candied dates and put them into the soup pot. Cover the pot and bring to a boil over high heat.

7. Uncover and turn off the heat.

8. Pour all the ingredients and soup in the pot into the glass pot. Cover the pot and bring to a boil over high heat.

9. Simmer over low heat for about 2 hours. When the time is up, turn off the heat.

10. Pour into a bowl, serve and enjoy.

Olives with black soy sauce

Ingredients: 1000g olives Accessories: 10 dried chili peppers 1 large head of garlic 50g salt 500g soy sauce 125g rock sugar

Method:

1. Select relatively young olives.

2. Wash it thoroughly with flour and water.

3. Drain the washed olives.

4. Let it dry in the sun or air-dry the moisture (the olives are fine without moisture. I happened to have something to do that day, and the olives were sun-dried and felt a little wilted).

5. Chop the dried olives in half with a knife.

6. Put the cut olives into a clean container, add coarse salt and marinate overnight (during marinating, shake the container occasionally to allow the salt to better blend with the olives).

7. Prepare chili peppers and garlic. Similarly, washed chili peppers and garlic must be dried in the sun.

8. Put rock sugar and soy sauce into a casserole, bring to a boil over high heat, and let it cool.

9. Place the salted olive halves into a sealable container and pour in the cooked soy sauce.

10. Add chili and garlic (for better photography, I divided the soy sauce into two times, remember that the soy sauce must cover all the ingredients).

11. Marinate for 2-3 days before eating. Use clean and oil-free chopsticks to take out the food.

This is the introduction to the edible and medicinal value of olives. Of course, there are not only two methods of eating olives introduced above. People who like to eat olives can study some recipes and cook olives. Stir-fried into a variety of delicious dishes. People who like to eat olives can study some recipes and fry olives to make various delicious dishes.