What is patchouli
Patchouli is a plant of the genus Thorax in the family Labiatae, belonging to the order Labiatae, which is a perennial herb, Patchouli has been called Hopscotch, Canggui, and Mountain Fennel. The height is generally 0.5 to 1.5m, the leaves are cordate-ovate, the corolla is light purplish-blue, about 8mm long. the mature nutlets are ovate, about 1.8mm long, the flowering period is generally from June to September, the fruiting period is from September to November.
Patchouli's role
Patchouli's role is to aromatize the turbid, and stop vomiting, published to relieve summer heat. It is used for dampness obstruction, epigastric plague and vomiting, summer dampness surface evidence, dampness and warmth at the beginning, fever and tiredness, chest tightness, cold and dampness closure of the summer, abdominal pain and vomiting and diarrhea, nasal abyss and headache. Patchouli has bactericidal function, mouth with a leaf can remove bad breath, prevent infectious diseases, and can be used as an antiseptic. Summer with patchouli porridge or tea drink, summer dampness, dampness in the spleen and stomach obstruction, epigastric distension, heavy limbs sleepy, nausea and vomiting effective.
The scent of patchouli
Patchouli is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine, patchouli just grows out of the leaves are tender green, after a few days the leaves slowly grow up, only gradually become dark green. When I was small, the patchouli leaves were very small, and the small thorns around the leaves did not grow out, and they were not noticeable at all, only when the leaves grew a little bit more noticeable, and the grown-up leaves were green, and it was very comfortable to look at the heart. Touch the front of the leaf, some places protruding, some places concave, like a series of rolling mountains, and the reverse side is like the city's underground water supply and sewerage pipes as dense as a silk network intertwined, which is the leaf veins. If you tear open a patchouli leaf, a refreshing aroma will hit your nose and won't dissipate for a long time.
The Color of Patchouli
Unlike other flowers, patchouli flowers do not have a heady floral scent that can be intoxicating, only a bland color. Patchouli flowers are mostly lavender in color, but there is a slight blue and light reddish tint to the purple. Unlike other flowers, which come in clusters, patchouli flowers are large clusters of tiny blooms piled on top of each other to form one big garden of flowers. The little buds are holding one another as if they are brothers and sisters together to resist the cold wind.