Osmanthus fragrans belongs to Oleaceae Evergreen trees, 3-15m high, with gray branches. Leaves opposite, leathery, oblong, 6-12cm long, 2-4.5cm wide, entire. Flowers clustered in leaf axils, pale yellow and white, 4-lobed. Drupe oval, purple-black when ripe. The flowers are fragrant, and the fragrant oil is extracted to make osmanthus fragrans extract, which can be used in the production of food and cosmetics. Flowers used as medicine have the effects of dispelling cold, resolving phlegm and promoting fluid production. Fruit is pressed for oil and eaten. It is also an ornamental plant.

Osmanthus fragrans is pungent and can be used as medicine. It has the effects of resolving phlegm, relieving cough, promoting fluid production and stopping toothache. Osmanthus fragrans is fragrant and durable, and can be used to make cakes, sweets and wine.

It comes from Osmanthus fragrans Lour. of Oleaceae, and is used as medicine with flowers, fruits and roots. Pick flowers in autumn; Fruit picking in winter; Roots are collected in four seasons and dried separately.

Related medicinal materials Osmanthus fragrans with green back, Osmanthus fragrans with Ma Guihua Mountain, Osmanthus fragrans with dew and Osmanthus fragrans seeds.

Tropism of nature and taste

Flowers: Xin, Wen.

Fruit: Xin, Gan, Wen.

Root: sweet, slightly astringent, flat.

Functional indication

Flowers: dispel cold and break knots, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. Used for toothache, cough, asthma and excessive phlegm, amenorrhea and abdominal pain.

Fruit: Warming stomach, calming liver and dispelling cold. Used for deficiency-cold stomachache.

Root: dispel wind and dampness, dispel cold. Used for rheumatism, bone and muscle pain, lumbago, toothache due to kidney deficiency.

Usage and dosage cost1~ 4 yuan. Fruit 2 ~ 4 money. Roots 2 ~ 3.