Coffee wasabi (scientific name: Abelmoschusesculentus? (Linn.) Moench) is also known as okra

Economic use

Leaves, buds and flowers are rich in protein, vitamins and mineral salts.

Seeds contain more potassium, calcium, iron, zinc, manganese and other elements; can extract oil and protein; has a special flavor, can be extracted oil, but also as a coffee additive or substitute; seeds contain about 15-20% oil, oil with a small amount of cottonseed phenol, slightly poisonous, high temperature treatment can be used for food or for industrial use.

Nutrition

Coffee anemone is rich in nutrients, the young fruit contains a large number of viscous smooth sap, with special coffee anemone coffee anemone special flavor.

The juice is mixed with pectin, bovine lactose and ala-glucan.

It's pectin for soluble fiber, in the new concept of modern health care is extremely important.

Where regular consumption of it has a healthy stomach and intestines, nourishing the effect of yin and yang.

Eating

Coffee okra is known as the king of vegetables, its tender pod meat tender, containing pectin and polysaccharides composed of viscous substances, so that the okra has a special flavor, smooth taste; generally can be fried, soup, pickling, canning and so on.

In addition to the young fruit edible, its leaves, buds, flowers are also edible.

Ornamental

Coffee anemone has a long fruiting period, large and showy flowers, yellow, white, purple flowers, so China, Taiwan and other places are also cultivated as ornamental plants.

Medicinal use

Medicine: Root: cough. Bark: to relieve menstruation. Used for menstrual disorders. Seeds: lactation. Used for insufficient milk. Whole plant: clearing heat and removing toxins, moistening dryness and sliding intestines.

Huangqiu, alias: mountain oil hemp, wild oil hemp, wild cotton, hibiscus hemp, birdcage gum, false three ribs, mountain hibiscus, fragrant okra, Latin name: AbelmoschusmoschatusMedicus.

Use Value

Seeds with fragrance, with water vapor steam method can be extracted to produce Aromatic oil, oil content of about 0.3-0.5%, is a valuable high-level spices;

Ornamental value

The species of large flowers colorful, can be used for ornamental gardens. Used as garden background, hedge edge, wild garden, flower beds, flower field, etc..

Medicinal value

Alias: musk okra, mountain nectarine, false cotton walnut, false three _, water hibiscus, false hibiscus

Source: okra, mallow family okra plant, with roots, leaves, flowers into medicine. Roots are collected in fall, used fresh or dried; leaves are collected in summer and fall, mostly used fresh; flowers are collected in summer, dipped in sesame oil.

Taste: slightly sweet, cool.

Attributive meridian: heart; lung meridian.

Functions: clearing heat and inducing dampness, extracting toxins and draining pus.

Prescription:

Root: used for high fever, lung-heat cough, postpartum lactation, constipation, amoebic dysentery, urinary stones.

Leaves: used externally to treat carbuncle and poison, whitlow, bone fracture.

Flower: external treatment of burns.