1, bergamot porridge: suitable for epigastric pain, stomach weakness and qi stagnation, cough with excessive phlegm, chest tightness, loss of appetite, dyspepsia, hypochondriac distension, vomiting and other diseases caused by liver depression and qi stagnation.

2, stir-fried bergamot: can strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis, suitable for spleen edema, phlegm-dampness cough.

3, bergamot fried celery: this juice has the effect of resolving phlegm in the stomach, strengthening the spleen and promoting qi. Can be used to treat anorexia, chronic expectoration and other diseases.

4. bergamot dew: bergamot dew has the function of promoting qi circulation and relieving depression, and can be used to treat chest septum depression.

5, bergamot juice: can be used for wet phlegm and cough (including chronic bronchitis).

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Bergamot (scientific name: Citrus medica? L. var.sarcodactylis? Swingle): when the fruit matures, the carpels are separated to form slender and curved fruit petals, which are like fingers, hence the name bergamot.

Evergreen shrubs or small trees, up to more than ten feet high, with hard sharp spines about 6 cm long at the base of stems and leaves, and new branches are triangular. Simple leaves alternate, oblong, with transparent oil spots. Flowers are mostly born in the axils of leaves, with constant flowers in bundles. Among them, there are many male flowers, some of which are bisexual flowers. The corolla has five petals, and the white is slightly purple. It blooms for the first time from the vernal equinox to Qingming, and there are often many male flowers, and the fruit is small.

Another time around long summer, it ripened in September 9- 10/0, and the fruit was large for medicinal purposes, with bright yellow skin, wrinkled and shiny, divergent tips, and often open like fingers, hence the name bergamot, with white flesh and no seeds. ?

Usually used as traditional Chinese medicine, or as an ornamental plant because of its peculiar fruit shape. A large number of bergamot are made into preserved fruits to eat and sell.

Bergamot is one of the varieties of citron. It is an irregularly branched shrub or small tree. The new shoots, buds and buds are dark purple, and the stems and branches are prickly, with thorns as long as 4 cm. Simple leaves, rare with single compound leaves, have joints, but no wings; Petiole is short, leaf blade is elliptic or ovoid-elliptic, 6-12cm long and 3-6cm wide, or larger, with rounded or blunt top, sparse and short-pointed, and the leaf margin has shallow obtuse teeth.

Racemes have up to 12 flowers, sometimes with axillary single flowers; The flowers are bisexual and tend to be unisexual, so the pistil degenerates; 5 petals, length1.5-2cm; 30-50 stamens; The style is thick and long, and the stigma is head-shaped. The ovary divides immediately after the flower falls off, and becomes finger-shaped meat strips during the development of the fruit.

The fruit is finger-shaped, weighing up to 2,000 grams. The peel is yellowish and rough, very thick and difficult to peel off. The endothelium is white or slightly yellowish, cotton, soft, with 10- 15 petals. The pulp is colorless, almost transparent or light milky yellow, crisp, sour or slightly sweet and fragrant. Seeds are small, smooth, cotyledons are milky white, and many or single embryos. Usually seedless. The flowering period is from April to May, and the fruiting period is 10- 1 1 month.

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