Forsythia:

Forsythia (Latin name: Forsythia suspensa): deciduous shrub, is the forsythia genus of the family Muxiidae. Forsythia early spring first leaf blossom, flower blossom aroma light color, full of branches of golden yellow, gorgeous and lovely, is an excellent early spring flowering shrubs, plant height up to 3 meters, branch trunks clustered, branchlets yellow, arching pendulous, hollow. Leaves opposite, simple or trifoliolate, ovate or ovate-elliptic, margin dentate. Corolla yellow, 1-3 in leaf axils; fruit ovoid, ovate-elliptic or long elliptic, apex rostrally acuminate, surface sparsely lenticellate; fruiting pedicels 0.7-1.5 cm. The fruit is 0.7-1.5 cm long. The flowering period is from March to April, and the fruiting period is from July to September. The fruits of forsythia can be used as medicine, which is a heat-clearing and detoxifying traditional Chinese medicine, and is mainly used for treating the beginning of fever, wind-heat colds, fever, heartburn, sore throat, and acute nephritis.

Eucommia:

Eucommia (scientific name Eucommia ulmoides Oliver), also known as gum wood, for the Eucommiaceae plant Eucommia is endemic to China. Distributed in Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan (Xichuan), Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Anhui, Shaanxi Jiangxi, Guangxi and Zhejiang and other provinces and regions, is now widely planted around.

Eucommia has also been introduced to botanical gardens in Europe and the United States, and is known as the "Chinese rubber tree", although it does not have any affinity with the rubber tree. The free amino acids of eucommia are very few, and the small amount of protein contained in eucommia is a complete protein similar to the majority of foods, i.e., it can be hydrolyzed to detect 8 kinds of amino acids essential to the human body. Determined the 15 kinds of mineral elements contained in Eucommia, including zinc, copper, iron and other trace elements, and calcium, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium and other macronutrients.

Medicinal Eucommia, the dried bark of the plant Eucommiaceae, is a valuable Chinese tonic herb. It is sweet in flavor and warm in nature. It has the effect of tonifying the liver and kidney, strengthening the muscles and bones, regulating the stroke, fixing the menstruation and stabilizing the fetus. It can be used to treat lumbar and leg pain or soreness and weakness caused by kidney yang deficiency, incompetent twins caused by liver qi deficiency, and wet and itchy scrotum. It is classified as a top quality in Shennong Ben Cao Jing.