“Guess who I am” Ingredient Series No. 392: Numerous effects for clearing heat and detoxifying

Judging from the leaf veins, hairs, shape of the branches, and the location of the fruit, it is likely a plant from the persimmon family.

I don’t know what good ingredients there are. Waiting for an answer.

Four characters – which one do you want me to highlight?

It is actually a berry, with juice that is a bright deep rose color. Berries have a sweet-and-tart taste; they contain 7 types of amino acids and vitamin C. They can be eaten raw, and their buds, fruits, and young branches can all be used in medicine to reduce heat and detoxify the body ； The juice can also regulate bodily functions, control blood pressure, and have an anti-aging effect.

Li Kui, Zhang Fei, Aaron Kwok, Liu Qingyun

Since I don’t have it here, it must be a plant from the rhododendron family; it can be found in Yunnan and Guangxi. That’s just my guess. One hundred points – it turns out to be a plant from the rhododendron family, namely the \"Heixiazi fruit\"

This fruit is a berry that grows on small shrubs; it is dark purple in color, sweet and sour in taste. Since black bears particularly enjoy eating it, the people living in the mountains call this fruit “Black Bear Berry”. Also known as blueberry honeysuckle, goat’s milk fruit, mountain eggplant fruit, or blue fruit; it belongs to the honeysuckle family, in the genus Lonicera. Shrub, 1.5 meters tall. Young branches are hairy; old branches are reddish-brown, with the bark peeling off later. The leaves are oblong, elongated ovate, or obovate-lanceolate, entire with ciliate margins, and have stipules located in the leaf axils. The peduncle is long; the corolla is yellowish-white, tubular, funnel-shaped, with 5 lobes; there are 5 stamens, and the pistil protrudes outside the corolla ； There are lateral linear bracts that fuse together to form an urn-shaped structure. The berries are dark blue, covered with a white powder, and oval or oblong in shape. The flowering period is from May to June. Fruits ripen from July to September; each blue-purple, oval-shaped berry is as lovely as agate, making one’s mouth water. If you pick one and taste it, you’ll find its flavor to be sweet and sour at the same time. Berries have a sweet-and-tart taste; they contain 7 types of amino acids and vitamin C. They can be eaten raw, used as a source of color, or utilized to make wine, beverages, and jams. Buds, fruits, and young branches can be used as medicine to clear heat and detoxify. Flowers are also a source of nectar.