Hawthorn
Hawthorn, also known as "mountain red" or "rouge fruit", has high nutritional and medicinal value. In addition to fresh consumption, hawthorn can be processed into hawthorn slices, hawthorn fruit leather, hawthorn cake, red fruit jam, candied hawthorn, hawthorn wine, etc. Hawthorn slices and hawthorn fruit leather are the most common and popular varieties.
Senna Seed
Senna seed is the mature seed of the leguminous plant Senna, also known as grass senna. "Shen Nong's Herbal Classic" records that senna seed has a slightly bitter and cold taste, and it belongs to the liver, gallbladder, and kidney meridians. It has the functions of clearing the liver, improving eyesight, moisturizing the intestines, promoting bowel movements, reducing fat, and slimming. It can be used for headaches, dizziness, red eyes, blurred vision, constipation, and other conditions. In recent years, it has also been used in the treatment of hypertension.
Poria
Poria is a parasitic fungus that grows on the roots of pine trees. It has a potato-like shape, with a dark brown outer skin and white or pink inside. In traditional Chinese medicine, it has diuretic and sedative effects. The medicinal part is the dried sclerotium of the fungus Poria cocos, which is often parasitic on the roots of Masson's pine or Chinese red pine.
Tangerine Peel
It refers to the dried and mature fruit peel of the Rutaceae plant Citrus and its cultivated varieties. The medicinal material is divided into "tangerine peel" and "broad tangerine peel". Mature fruits are harvested, and the peel is stripped off and dried in the sun or by low-temperature drying. It has a bitter and pungent taste and a warm nature. It belongs to the lung and spleen meridians. Its functions are regulating qi, invigorating the spleen, drying dampness, and transforming phlegm. It is used for chest and abdominal distention, poor appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, and cough with phlegm.
Spirulina
Spirulina is a type of lower plant that belongs to the cyanobacteria phylum, also known as blue-green algae. Like bacteria, they do not have a true nucleus in their cells, so they are also called blue-green bacteria. Blue-green algae have a primitive and very simple cell structure. They are the earliest photosynthetic organisms to appear on Earth and have survived for 3.5 billion years on this planet.
