Forsythia (Latin scientific name: Forsythia suspensa): It is a deciduous shrub belonging to the class of Dicotyledon, Pleurotus, Delphiaceae, and Forsythia. Forsythia suspensory leaves bloom in early spring, the flowers are lightly scented, full of golden branches, gorgeous and lovely. It is an excellent flowering shrub in early spring. The plant height can reach 3 meters, with clusters of branches, yellow branches, arched drooping and hollow. The leaves are opposite, single or three leaflets, ovate or oval-elliptic, with teeth on the margin. The corolla is yellow, and 1-3 are born in the leaf axils; the fruit is ovoid, ovate-elliptic or oblong, the apex beak is acuminate, and the surface is sparsely lenticular; the fruit stalk is 0.7-1.5 cm long. Flowering from March to April, fruiting from July to September.
It grows in hillside shrubs, forests or grasses, or valleys, ravines and sparse forests, with an altitude of 250-2200 meters. The fruit can be used as medicine. Produced in China’s Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, western Anhui, Henan, Hubei, and Sichuan.
Forsythia likes light and has a certain degree of negative tolerance; it likes warm, humid climate and is also very cold tolerant; drought-resistant and barren, afraid of waterlogging; regardless of soil, it can grow normally in neutral, slightly acid or alkaline soil.
Forsythia suspensa is a wild vegetable oil. The oil content of forsythia seeds is 25%-33%. The seed oil contains gum and has good volatility. It is a good raw material for the insulating paint industry and cosmetics. It has good development potential. The oil can be manufactured. Soap and cosmetics, as well as insulating paint and lubricating oil, are also rich in oleic acid and linoleic acid, which are easily absorbed and digested by the human body. The oil has a fragrant smell and is a good edible oil after refining.
Forsythia suspensa extract can be used as a natural preservative for food preservation, especially for the preservation of fresh fish products with high water content. Forsythia suspensa extract can effectively inhibit the reproduction of common spoilage bacteria in the environment and prolong the shelf life of food. It is a promising low-cost and safe new food preservative.
Forsythia suspensa is a kind of heat-clearing and detoxifying drugs. It has the functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and dispersing wind-heat, and can treat the diseases of wind-heat and exogenous febrile disease in the early stage. In the early stage of febrile disease, it is manifested as headache, fever, thirst and sore throat. In addition, it can treat the swelling and pain of erysipelas, carbuncle yang, scrofula and urination.
Forsythia suspensa has a better effect on clearing fire and dissipating heat. Therefore, in the folk secret recipe, the Yinqiao tea made with honeysuckle and forsythia can be used to regulate facial acne and pimples. In daily life, in addition to Yinqiao tea, there is also this forsythia flower tea tonic and suitable for daily drinking (the specific dosage depends on personal physique).
The effect of forsythia:
1.Forsythia has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, eliminating carbunge and dispersing wind and heat. It is a commonly used heat-clearing medicinal material.
2.It can detoxify, eliminate paralysis, clear heart heat, and has antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, anti-liver injury, diuresis, blood pressure and other effects.
3.In addition, it can enhance the resistance of capillaries, can reduce the fragility and permeability of capillaries, hemostasis effect.
Post time: Aug-06-2020