Red Peach is generally referred to as Cardinal K fruit. In fact, its real name is rosehips.?

General consumption is: pick the calyx together with the fruit, sun 1 day, to be shrunken and then out of the calyx, placed on a clean straw mat or bamboo wicker sun dry.

That is to say, after picking it needs to be dried in the sun before being used to make tea, and it is usually the flowers and fruits that are brewed together.

Rhododendron K is a plant with medicinal value, also known as the blood fruit, belongs to the mallow family, was introduced from Africa and India in 1945, tea or wine can play a diuretic, lower blood pressure, blood, beauty and other effects, excessive stomach acid can not be a long-term drink, but this kind of plant has not been used in clinical medicine in China.

The calyx seeds, stems and leaves of Cardinal K can be utilized. The calyx (fresh or dried) has hypotensive, anti-scorbutic and diuretic properties, and has a soothing effect on bronchitis and coughs. In the African folk commonly used as a drink, the Arabs with calyx tea called "Sudan Tea", some also used as a natural coloring and flavoring of food. Europeans have long imported dried calyx from Africa, used as jelly, flavored cool drinks. Leaves in addition to the calyx-like medicinal effects, in the medical and surgical used as abscesses washing material, its leaf juice can also cure the feet on the cracks, the epidermis of the stem is one of the main raw materials of the African system rope.