Forsythia suspensa (Latin name: Forsythia suspensa): Deciduous shrub, belonging to Forsythia of Oleaceae. Forsythia suspensa blooms in early spring, with elegant fragrance, golden branches, gorgeous and lovely. It is an excellent flowering shrub in early spring, with a plant height of 3 meters, clustered branches, yellow branchlets, arched drooping and hollow. The leaves are opposite, simple or trifoliate, oval or ovoid-elliptic, with toothed edges. Corolla yellow, 1-3 peanuts in leaf axils; The fruit is ovoid, ovoid, oval or oblong, with a beak-like tapering at the top and sparse lenticels on the surface; Pedicel 0.7- 1.5 cm long. The flowering period is from March to April, and the fruiting period is from July to September. The fruit of forsythia suspensa can be used as medicine, which is a traditional Chinese medicine for clearing away heat and toxic materials. Mainly used for treating fever, wind-heat cold, fever, upset, sore throat, acute nephritis, etc.
Eucommia ulmoides:
Eucommia ulmoides Oliv., also known as bakelite, belongs to Eucommiaceae and is endemic to China. Distributed in Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan (Xichuan), Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Anhui, Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Zhejiang and other provinces, it is now widely planted in various places.
Eucommia ulmoides Oliv It has also been introduced into European and American Botanical Gardens, and is called "China Rubber Tree", although it is not related to rubber tree. . Eucommia ulmoides Oliv It contains a very small amount of free amino acids and a small amount of protein, which is a complete protein similar to most foods, that is, it can hydrolyze and detect 8 amino acids necessary for human body. 15 mineral elements in Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. Include trace elements such as zinc, copper and iron and macro elements such as calcium, phosphorus, potassium and magnesium.
Eucommia ulmoides Oliv The dried bark of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. It is a precious nourishing medicinal material in China. Its taste is sweet and its nature is warm. It has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, strengthening tendons and bones, regulating chong and ren, consolidating menstruation and preventing miscarriage. It can be used for the treatment of lumbago and leg pain or soreness and weakness caused by kidney-yang deficiency, unstable fetal movement caused by liver-qi deficiency, and scrotum wet itching. It is listed as the top grade in Shennong Herbal Classic.