Edible: Illicium verum is a famous condiment with sweet taste. Illicium verum can be directly used for daily seasoning, such as stewing, boiling, pickling, marinating and soaking. It can also be directly processed into spiced seasoning powder. Anise oil and star anise oil resin are usually used in food processing industries such as meat products, condiments, soft drinks, cold drinks, sweets, cakes and baked goods.

Medicinal use: Illicium verum is used as medicine, which has the functions of expelling wind, regulating qi and regulating stomach. Used for vomiting due to moderate cold, epigastric cold pain, bloating, etc.

2. Sannai

Edible: in cooking, it is mostly used for burning, marinating and spicy hot pot, and the dosage is mostly between 5 ~ 10g. Guangdong people use galangal to make brine chicken. Sichuan Jianghu dishes are made of "three-milk dishes", that is, the main ingredients are cooked with a large number of three-milk, dried red pepper and dried pepper.

Medicinal: It can be used to regulate temperature, promote digestion and relieve pain. It is used for fullness of chest and diaphragm, cold pain in abdominal cavity, and does not need to be eaten.

3. cinnamon

Spice: Cinnamon oil can be extracted from branches, leaves, fruits and pedicels. Cinnamon oil is the raw material for synthesizing cinnamic acid and other important spices, which is used as the raw material of cosmetics and also as the ingredient of chocolate and cigarettes. Used as deodorant, wind repellent, irritating fragrance, etc. And has antiseptic effect.

Medicinal: Cinnamon has the functions of warming middle warmer, tonifying kidney, dispelling cold and relieving pain, and can be used to treat cold pain in waist and knees, stomach pain due to deficiency cold, chronic dyspepsia, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, and amenorrhea due to cold.

Others: Cinnamon has excellent materials, meticulous structure and is not easy to crack, which can be used to make high-grade furniture. Cinnamomum cassia trees are evergreen all the year round, with lush foliage, large biomass and many fallen leaves, which can effectively improve soil and conserve water.

4. lilacs

Medicinal: It has the effects of warming middle warmer, lowering adverse qi, tonifying kidney and strengthening yang. Used for deficiency-cold of spleen and stomach, hiccup and vomiting, anorexia and vomiting, chills and pains, and impotence due to kidney deficiency.

Extended data

Geographical distribution of Illicium

Distributed in Southeast Asia and North America. Of which Asia accounts for 80%. In Southeast Asia, China is the main producing area, followed by Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Sumatra, Kalimantan and other regions and countries. America is mainly distributed in Mexico, Haiti and Florida.

Mainly produced in western and southern Guangxi, China (mostly cultivated in Baise, Nanning, Qinzhou, Wuzhou, Yulin and other areas), with an altitude of 200-700 meters, while the natural distribution can reach an altitude of 1600 meters. Yanshan Mountain in Guilin and Doushui Town in Shangrao, Jiangxi have been introduced and bloomed normally. It is also planted in southern Fujian, western Guangdong, southeastern and southern Yunnan.

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