Economic value
The seeds contain more than 30% oil, for food and moistening hair, adjusting medicine, can make candles and soap, can also be used as a substitute for motor oil.
Oil tea and oil palm, olive and coconut and known as the world's four major woody edible oil plants. Oil tea has a high value of comprehensive utilization, tea seed meal contains tea saponin, tea seed polysaccharide, tea seed protein, etc., they are chemical, light industry, food, feed industry products such as raw materials, tea seed shells can also be made of furfural, activated charcoal, etc., the ash of the tea tree to wash your hair can kill lice, including insect eggs. Tea tree tree texture fine, dense, heavy, heavy in the hand, very hard, is to do gyro, slingshot of the best materials, and because of its natural texture of the tea tree, but also the production of high-grade wooden buttons of high-grade materials.
Edible value
Tea oil unsaturated fatty acid content of up to 90%, much higher than vegetable oil, peanut oil and soybean oil, and olive oil than the content of vitamin E is twice as high, and contains camellia glycosides and other specific physiologically active substances, has a very high nutritional value. Tea shells or a good edible mushroom culture medium. Studies have shown that the oil tea saponin also has antibacterial and antioxidant effects.
Environmental value
In addition, oil tea is also an excellent winter nectar source plants, flowering in the less flower season, early October to December, nectar is extremely rich. In the biomass energy source oil tea also has high application value . At the same time, oil tea is an anti-pollution ability is extremely strong tree species, strong resistance to sulfur dioxide, resistance to fluorine and chlorine absorption ability is also very strong. Therefore, the scientific management of oil tea forest has the ecological benefits of maintaining soil and water, conserving water and regulating climate.
Medicinal value
Functions
Clearing heat and removing toxins, activating blood circulation and dissipating blood stasis, and relieving pain.
Root: used for acute pharyngitis, stomach pain, sprain and contusion.
The tea seed cake: used externally to treat skin scratching, the infusion to exterminate nail snails, kill fly maggots.
The Pharmacopoeia.
Yaojiajidan: root for toothache, lumbago; leaves for skin ulcers and itching for a long time; seed oil for rosacea "Gui medicine compilation".
Maonan medicine beauty oil tea: function with Yao "Gui medicine.
Tujia medicine oil tea seeds (you cha zi) :seeds for constipation, stagnant gas, ringworm, mange "Tujia medicine".
Pharmacological effects
The seeds contain oil tea crude saponins 0.025mg/kg intramuscular injection or 0.5mg/kg gavage, can make guinea pig serum cholesterol significantly reduced, but no significant effect on blood cells. However, lmg/kg intramuscular injection or 4mg/kg gavage can make the number of red blood cells and hemoglobin content decreased significantly, indicating that there is a hemolytic effect. The crude saponin of Camellia oleifera extracted from the seed, the lowest effective concentration of 20s in vitro to inhibit the spermatozoa activity of rats and humans are 0.0313mg/ml and 0.0675mg/ml respectively, while the spermicidal agent of alkanol ether used in the vagina are 0.25mg/ml and 0.5mg/ml respectively.In addition, the effective concentration of this product has no irritation to the animal's vagina, and has no inhibitory effect on lactobacillus. Antifungal effect see tea oil poop article.