DELICIOUS RIPE DRIED MYRTLE FRUIT

Plant characteristics of forest myrtle

- Sim is a precious medicinal plant that is bought by Oriental medicine pharmacies and people to make medicine. The tree is also known as Son Nam, Cuong Nam, Nam Tu, Duong pear, Kim Nuong peach, Hong myrtle...

- Myrtle is a shrub, with an average height of 1-3m, branches and leaves are luxuriantly branched. On the young branches there are soft hairs growing around the branches and trunk.

- The leaves of myrtle are ovate, opposite, thick, with 3 main veins, the underside of the leaves are hairy.

- Purple myrtle flowers grow individually or gather 2-3 flowers in the interstitial leaves.

The berries, when ripe, are dark purple, edible. Small seeds, many.

Botanical characteristics of myrtle tree

Origin and distribution of myrtle trees in our country

- The forest sim is native to South Asia and Southeast Asia, from India east to southern China, Taiwan and the Philippines, and south to Malaysia and Sulawesi...

- This species usually grows in coastal areas, in natural forests, along rivers and streams, in flooded forests, wet forests, and at altitudes up to 2400 m above sea level.

- In Vietnam, trees grow wild in hilly areas or fallow fields. Currently, in some northern mountainous provinces and coastal areas in the central and southern regions of our country, especially on Phu Quoc island, this large myrtle grows a lot and people often use it to make wine and drink. very delicious and many uses, no different from wine.

Parts and collection of uses of myrtle

- Myrtle tree can use young buds, leaves, flower buds, ripe fruit.

- Young buds are collected in spring, flower buds and fruits are collected in autumn. Dry or dry to make medicine.
- The myrtle tree has very good chemical composition for health, which is distributed to the whole plant specifically: 2. The chemical composition of the myrtle tree.

- The whole plant contains tannin. Myrtle fruit contains protein, fat, glucide, vitamin A, thiamin, riboflavin and nicotinic acid.

- Myrtle stems and leaves have many triterpene compounds such as betullin, betulinic acid; taraxerol…

- Myrtle buds have many tannins, nicotinic acid, flavonic, riboflavin...

The taste of forest myrtle

- In Oriental medicine, it is said that myrtle fruit has a sweet taste; average. It has the effect of nourishing blood, only hemostasis (hemostasis), long wax, and crystallization. Used to treat bleeding disorders, vomiting blood, nose bleeding, blood in urine, dysentery, extravasation, tinnitus, spermatozoa, haemorrhage, hypo...