The rosehips, also known as Loropetalum, Loropetalum, mountain eggplant, etc., is an annual herb of the genus Hibiscus in the mallow family, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions, native to West Africa, India, and currently in China's Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Yunnan, Taiwan and other places are cultivated. Rose hibiscus plant height 1.5 ~ 2 meters, stem lilac, erect, trunk multi-branched. Leaves alternate. Flowers open in summer and fall, long flowering period, calyx cup-shaped, purple-red, corolla yellow. Whenever the flowering season, red, green and yellow, very beautiful, has a "plant ruby" reputation.
Medicinal use: calyx and seed oil, cardiovascular, arteriosclerosis, hypertension, bone fracture, children's dyspepsia, dyspepsia in the elderly, gastric acid deficiency and other diseases have therapeutic effects.
Rose eggplant tea
Rose eggplant 3 to 5g, warm water brewing, add the right amount of rock sugar or honey, drink instead of tea. Long-term drinking, helps to reduce the total cholesterol value and triglyceride value in human blood, to achieve the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease and weight loss effect.