Its fruit has a strange appearance, and just 2 of them can treat a toothache. This tree is not worth much money, but its value is actually very high.

In our country there are many, many kinds of trees, especially in rural areas, the wild, and the mountains, where they are even more common. Among these trees there are also quite a few interesting ones, such as Aralia chinensis; it is covered in thorns, yet farming friends are not only unafraid of it, but rather fond of it, because its tender shoots are also the delicious wild vegetable "ci lao ya". Farming friends are very fond of these peculiar trees. Below, the author introduces another rather peculiar tree, whose fruit is very interesting.

In the regions of Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan in our country, there is a kind of tree whose leaves are long elliptic-lanceolate and whose whole body gives off a faint fragrance. Around June and July it begins to bear fruit, and the infructescence of its fruit looks a little frightening, like a "caterpillar", growing vertically upward, and once ripe it looks very much like a pine cone. This tree is the "huaxiang tree" (Platycarya strobilacea).

In fact, the huaxiang tree itself is not worth much money, because it grows very fast and is a fast-growing tree, reaching more than 1 m in about 1 year, and its vitality is also very tenacious, with few pests and diseases, so the price of a single plant is also very low. In the past, farming friends often went up the mountain to cut it for firewood. However, although the huaxiang tree is not worth much money, its value is indeed very high, especially its bark, root bark, leaves and infructescence, all of which have great uses.

Its bark, root bark, leaves and infructescence all contain gum and are a raw material for extracting tannin extract, while its bark can also have fiber stripped from it, its leaves can also be used to make pesticide, and its roots and old wood contain aromatic oil, which can be used to extract aromatic oil.

What has the greatest effect, however, is actually its seemingly frightening infructescence. The infructescence of the huaxiang tree is also called huaxiang fruit or huaxiang tree ball. According to the "Chinese Materia Medica", huaxiang fruit can be used as medicine; its taste is pungent, its nature warm and it is non-toxic, and it has the effects of regulating qi and dispelling wind, reducing swelling and relieving pain, drying dampness and killing insects. It can be used to treat internal injury with chest distension, abdominal pain, pain of the muscles and bones, carbuncles, wind toxin, sores and swellings, toothache and other symptoms, and it is especially good for treating toothache. Among the people there is even the folk remedy of boiling 2 huaxiang fruits in water and holding it in the mouth to treat toothache.

So although the huaxiang tree itself is not worth much money, its application value is still very high. When you see this kind of tree in the future, do not damage it casually, for if you happen to run into a toothache problem you can still use its fruit.

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