Hibiscus syriacus and its applications.
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- .Basic Botanical Info of Hibiscus syriacus.
- .Physical Characteristics and Plantation of Hibiscus syriacus.
- .Hibiscus Habitats and Propagation.
- .Uses of Hibiscus syriacus.
- .Phytochemicals of Hibiscus syriacus.
- .Functions and Characters of Hibiscus syriacus.
- .Research Update:Hibiscus syriacus.
Uses of Hibiscus syriacus.
Edible Uses:
Edible Parts: Flowers; Leaves; Root; Tea.
Young leaves - raw or cooked. A very mild flavour, though slightly on the tough side, they make an acceptable addition to the salad bowl. A tea is made from the leaves or the flowers. Flowers - raw or cooked. A mild flavour and mucilaginous texture, they are delightful in salads, both for looking at and for eating. Root - it is edible but very fibrousy. Mucilaginous, without very much flavour.
Medicinal Uses:
Anthelmintic; Antiphlogistic; Antipruritic; Demulcent; Diuretic; Emollient; Expectorant; Febrifuge; Ophthalmic; Skin; Stomachic; Styptic.
Anti-inflammatory,Antioxidant,Appetite Stimulant,Breathing Disorders,Bronchitis
Catarrh (respiratory and stomach mucous),Colds and flu,Cough,Digestive Upsets,Diuretic
Gastritis,Gastroenteritis,Laryngitis,Laxative,Phlegm,Poultice,Skin Problems,Sore Throat,Urinary Tract Problems,Vascular Disorders,Wounds.
The leaves are diuretic, expectorant and stomachic. A decoction of the flowers is diuretic, ophthalmic and stomachic. It is also used in the treatment of itch and other skin diseases, dizziness and bloody stools accompanied by much gas. The bark contains several medically active constituents, including mucilage, carotenoids, sesquiterpenes and anthocyanidins. A decoction of the root bark is antiphlogistic, demulcent, emollient, febrifuge, haemostatic and vermifuge. It is used in the treatment of diarrhoea, dysentery, abdominal pain, leucorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea and dermaphytosis.
The following notes are for the closely related H. syriacus. They quite possibly also apply to this species.
Ophthalmic, styptic.
The leaves are diuretic, expectorant and stomachic.
A decoction of the flowers is diuretic, ophthalmic and stomachic. It is also used in the treatment of itch and other skin diseases, dizziness and bloody stools accompanied by much gas.
A decoction of the root bark is antiphlogistic, demulcent, emollient, febrifuge, haemostatic and vermifuge. It is used in the treatment of diarrhoea, dysentery, dysmenorrhoea and dermaphytosis.
Tea uses:
Hibiscus petals are commonly used as a base for herb and fruit infusions. When blended with rosehips and various other dried fruits the resulting drink is lively, fruity and Vitamin C and A healthy. If you are using hibiscus petals in a tea and you intend to add milk to the tea, keep the ratio of hibiscus to tea low as hibiscus will curdle milk. If tea shops want to create their own signature blends, hibiscus can make your blend distinctive and a blend that only 'you' can create. A special blend helps build loyalty amongst your customers and is well worth the effort.
Hot tea brewing method:
To prepare as an infusion, use 1 teaspoon (for a stronger infusion use 2 teaspoons) per cup of tea (about 8 ounces). put into your teapot and add boiling water. Let steep for 5-10 minutes and then pour. It is not necessary to strain the hibiscus as they sink to the bottom of the teapot and are not easily `stirred up'. For additional flavor add a large slice of orange or lemon or three slices of fresh juicy peaches. Sweeten to taste.
Iced tea brewing method: (to make 1 liter/quart):
Place 7 teaspoons of hibiscus into a teapot or heat resistant pitcher. Pour 1 1/4 cups of freshly boiled water over the tea. Steep for 5-10 minutes. Quarter fill a serving pitcher with cold water. Pour the tea into your serving pitcher straining the hibiscus. For additional flavor steep with 1/4 cup of dried orange peel. Add ice and top-up the pitcher with cold water. and sweeten to taste.
Hibiscus Recipes and Uses:
Hibiscus Amomum villosum Tofu soup:
Materials: White hibiscus flower 10 ~ 12, Amomum villosum 1 g, tender tofu 250 grams,salt,MSG, sesame oil, ginger all appropriate.
Practices: burning and heat the Pot, peanut oil burning to 80% grade heat, Add Amomum villosum and ginger fried to flavor smells, winners to slag, and water 500 grams, Add tofu tablets then boil.Hibiscus flower get rid of bud and washed input to boil, add salt,MSG to adjust its taste, leaching a little sesame oil.
Properties:Fresh of Fragrant Flowers, tofu Chunqing, and sweet appetizers, a treatment Wind inverse, nausea, hemorrhoids hematochezia effect.
Hibiscus Carp:
Material:Hibiscus flower 15 ~ 20, carp 2, green onions 500 grams, pigs leaf fat 100 grams, ginger, salt,liao jiu,vinegar, sugar, soy sauce, lard, peanut oil all appropriate.
Practices: fresh hibiscus flower got rid off but,petals wash, cut into thick silk. A post-mortem will wash clean the fish after water washed,cut off fins and straight knife zoned few, add soy sauce,Add intraday abeyance. Wash leeks, scallion stalk cut seven centimeters long, and then a post-mortem two halves, the remaining green onions or good standby. It watercress leaf fat pig into the small side.
Burning pot hot and add the peanut oil, oil 50% heat, add soy sauce to the carp Add Sprinkle with fried yellow color Remove, Add intraday abeyance. Another take a pot of washed bottom pot pad to the remaining onions and ginger pieces, fish on the above, scallion stalk yards in fish, the leaf fat Dingsa above, joined salt, soy sauce, sugar, water, it is necessary to diffuse the fish body, fire boil, moved to the small, like the fire about one hour, and then fire Add lard, Hibiscus petals, MSG and emphasize good taste or juice, and a little vinegar,then cooked.
Properties:Color light yellow, taste good and smells fresh,tender,good for spleen. Apply to weak spleen and stomach, intestinal wind,dysentery, hematochezia, edema, wet disease, skin disease,etc.
Hibiscus Ginger Tea:
Material:Hibiscus 10, Ginger 12 grams, brown sugar 250 grams.
Practices:hibiscus flower get rid off buds,washing clean, wash and ginger with a knife cut into silk. Hibiscus flower,fresh ginger, add water Decocting then filtrate liquid,add brown sugar drawing frame top. Drinking Fragrant Flowers,ginger taste and delicious. The efficacy of treatment with dysentery.
Other Properties:
Hibiscus addition to appreciate food, there are high medicinal value. Its flowers properties cooling,clean heat, detoxification effect. Commonly used in the treatment of bronchitis, diarrhea, stool blood under, women vaginal discharge. The various surgical patients also effective, blossoming inquest powder, vegetable oil-Kurashiki, flood-control fires burned; or root bark decoction washing, to cure hemorrhoids pain; stems and skins suitable for the end, vinegar transfer area to the skin can rule scabies.
Other Uses:
Dye; Fibre; Hair; Hedge; Oil.
A low quality fibre is obtained from the stems. It is used for making cordage and paper. The seed contains about 25% oil. No further details are given, but it is likely to be edible. A hair shampoo is made from the leaves. A blue dye is obtained from the flowers. This species is planted as a hedge in S. Europe.
The following notes are for the closely related H. syriacus. They quite probably also apply to this similar species.
A low quality fibre is obtained from the stems. It is used for making cordage and paper.
The seed contains about 25% oil. No further details are given, but it is likely to be edible.
A hair shampoo is made from the leaves.
A blue dye is obtained from the flowers.
This species is planted as a hedge in S. Europe.
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