Osmanthus is also known as "rock cinnamon", "wood rhinoceros", there are Dan-gui, gold-gui, silver-gui and other cultivars, usually in September-October each year to blossom, blossom fragrance fragrance, strong, far away from the smell can be smelled, will be collected and dried, has become China's commonly used medicinal flowers. After blossoming, the fragrance is rich and strong, and can be smelled from far away. After collecting and drying osmanthus flowers, it has become a commonly used medicinal flower in China. Osmanthus fragrans is a natural medicine. Osmanthus is warm and pungent, into the lungs, large intestine meridian, with stomach, phlegm, fluid, phlegm, liver, used to decoction, tea or wine, can be used to dissolve phlegm and dissipate blood stasis, loss of appetite, phlegm and coughing, intestinal wind and bloody diarrhea, menstrual closure and abdominal pain, etc., have a certain degree of efficacy.
China has known since ancient times to use osmanthus flowers to brew wine, rich osmanthus wine has been a common wine in our country, it can be appetizing and refreshing, strengthen the spleen and fill the deficiency, especially suitable for women to drink, not only to warm up the body to dispel the cold, but also can be beauty, it can be said to be a multi-purpose.
Homemade osmanthus wine
Materials: osmanthus wine is a very simple ingredient, home brewing only need to prepare osmanthus, sugar, wine, altar can be, the specific proportion can be referred to as 250 grams of osmanthus, 250 grams of sugar (icing sugar for the best), more than 35 degrees of sorghum or rice wine 2500 milliliters, the choice of wine altar tiles altar, porcelain altar are available.
The best choice for the most fragrant golden cinnamon, fresh cinnamon for the top, if there is no fresh cinnamon, can be used without impurities, clean dry cinnamon instead.
Brewing: first you have to mix the cinnamon and sugar, fermented in the altar for 2 to 3 days; then add rice wine or sorghum wine, need to keep in mind that the wine must be more than 35 degrees, if the degree is low, the active ingredients of cinnamon can not be melted with the wine. Then on the wine altar sealed and stored in a cool and ventilated place.
Brewing osmanthus wine program is not difficult, only pay attention to a word such as, sealed and preserved, 3 months after the osmanthus wine can be consumed. However, the more the wine ages, the more fragrant, if you can resist the craving, put a year, will be called a good home brew.
Two, spring cold season drink osmanthus tea to ease the stomach cold discomfort
Spring cold cold when cold and hot make people extra easy to depression, spleen and stomach cold people are easy to feel the stomach discomfort, and even cold pain, at this time you may want to buy a little dry osmanthus to tea, can be good to relieve the symptoms. In the bubble osmanthus tea can be used with the use of black tea and brown sugar, black tea is warm, warm the spleen and stomach, digestive function, and brown sugar can benefit the qi and blood, strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, dispel the wind and cold, blood circulation, these three together can be used to warm the stomach for maternity, children and anemic people to drink. However, it is not suitable for people with dampness and heat in the spleen and stomach who suffer from burning pain in the stomach and epigastric region, dry mouth, hunger but don't want to eat, yellow urine, sticky stools and other symptoms.
Osmanthus tea brewing method
Osmanthus + rose: can replenish blood
Red moisturizing qi and blood
The regulation of menstruation
Can eliminate the annoying small acne.
Cinnamon + violet + jade butterfly + fat sea: moisturize the lungs, relieve cough and nourish the lungs.
Three, osmanthus soothes the liver and regulates qi, awakens the spleen and opens the stomach
Osmanthus is warm and pungent in nature, has the effect of strengthening the stomach, resolving phlegm, generating fluids, dispersing phlegm, and calming the liver, and it can cure phlegm and cough, intestinal wind and bloody diarrhea, toothache and halitosis, loss of appetite, and menstrual cramps and abdominal pain. The "osmanthus dew" distilled from osmanthus flowers has the effect of soothing the liver and regulating the qi, waking up the spleen and opening up the stomach, and it can cure bad breath, dry throat and other illnesses, and it is a top quality drink. Gui Zhi, Gui Seed and Gui Root can be used as medicines. Gui Zhi Tang, which is prepared with Gui Zhi, Paeoniae Alba, Ginger, Jujube and Licorice, is a treatment for external wind and kidney deficiency. Cinnamon root, on the other hand, is used to treat pain in the tendons and bones, rheumatism and numbness.
Osmanthus Glutinous Rice Lotus Root
Ingredients: 1 lotus root, 1 small bowl of glutinous rice, 1 large handful of rock sugar, a little dried osmanthus, a little honey.
Practice:
1, 1 hour in advance will be softened glutinous rice standby;
2, will be washed lotus root after peeling the skin, from one end of the lotus root 1 centimeter will be cut lotus root, cut down the lotus root joints do not throw away;
3, will be soaked in glutinous rice into the lotus root holes, the introduction of a better way to do it: take a laminating bag, cut a small mouth, will be the mouth of the laminating hole into the lotus root holes! In addition, the rice will be poured into the laminating bag, chopsticks or bamboo sticks will be filled with rice into the lotus root hole to the full;
4, insert a few toothpicks in the lotus root incision, and then just cut the lotus root section covered with toothpicks at the other end of the sewing;
5, will be sealed lotus root into a large pot that can be accommodated, put the rock sugar, pour in the right amount of water did not cross the lotus root cover the lid of the pot, high-fire boil and then turn to medium-high-fire boil about 1 hour;
5, will be sealed into a pot, put ice sugar, pour the right amount of water did not cross the lotus root cover, high fire cook about 1 hours;
6, will be cooked lotus root fishing out slices, sprinkle some dry cinnamon and pour honey can be.