Bergamot can make sugar water. After washing the fresh bergamot, you don't need to cut off the outer epidermis, but cut it into small pieces directly, or plan it into filaments. Put a proper amount of water in the pot, put two handfuls of rock sugar, put the bergamot down and stew it for about ten hours. After stewing, you will find that the color of bergamot becomes transparent and very bright, and the whole pot of sugar water looks as sticky as honey. After it is cooled, it can be sealed and put into the refrigerator for refrigeration. When necessary, take a small amount and brew it with hot water or cold water for drinking.
You can also wash the bergamot and cut it into several millimeters thick slices, and then put it in the sun when the sun is full and dry it in the low sun. Remove the dust on the surface after drying, cut the dried bergamot into small strips with scissors, put it in a transparent glass bottle, then fill the glass bottle with honey and seal it. Honey bergamot doesn't need to be refrigerated in the refrigerator, just put it in a cool place. It usually takes half a year for honey bergamot to be soaked. Honey bergamot can be taken out and eaten directly, or poured out with honey and brewed with a small amount of hot water. The effect of honey soaking bergamot is similar to that of stewing with rock sugar, and it can also clear away heat and detoxify, and clear the heart and fire.
The ornamental value of bergamot is different from that of ordinary bonsai flowers. White, fragrant, and open in clusters, very attractive. When the fruit matures, its shape is like a finger-extended shape, a fist-clenched shape, a fist-fingered shape, and a hand-held shape, which is like a human hand.
Mature bergamot is golden in color, and can overflow fragrance from time to time, eliminate odor, purify indoor air and inhibit bacteria. Fruit-bearing time is long, 3-4 months or even longer, which can be used for long-term viewing of bergamot flowers.
The roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits of bergamot can be used as medicine, which is pungent, bitter, sweet, warm and non-toxic; Entering the three meridians of liver, spleen and stomach, it has many medicinal functions, such as regulating qi and resolving phlegm, stopping vomiting and relieving flatulence, soothing the liver and strengthening the spleen, and regulating the stomach. It has obvious relieving effect on tracheitis and asthma of the elderly; It has more obvious curative effect on indigestion, chest distension and tightness in the abdomen of ordinary people. Bergamot can be made into a variety of Chinese herbal medicines, which has the function of health care and longevity after long-term administration.