There are so many benefits of making tea with Candlewood leaves!

Many people like to drink tea, which is good for the body. Candlewood leaves can also be used to make tea. Candlewood leaves are high in trace elements and can strengthen the stomach and spleen, treat kidney deficiency, and are also very effective in treating gray hair. You may as well taste some tea in your spare time.

1. Can the leaves of Candlewood be used to make tea? Yes. Candlewood leaves are the leaves or branches of the plant Rhododendron chinense, which grows in hilly areas or mountains with an altitude of 400-1400m. They are commonly found in hillside forests or bushes. Evergreen shrub or small tree, 2-6m tall. Many branches, young branches with short soft hairs, old branches purple-brown. The petiole is 2-8 mm long, usually glabrous or slightly hairy. The leaves are thin leathery, elliptical, rhomboid-elliptical, or lanceolate-elliptical, 4-9cm long, 2-4cm wide, with sharp and acuminate apex, cuneate base, broad cuneate base, finely serrated edges, flat and shiny surface, 5-7 pairs of lateral veins, extending obliquely to the edge to form a network. The racemes are terminal or axillary, 4-6cm long, with many flowers, and the inflorescence axis is densely pubescent; the bracts are leaf-like, lanceolate, with serrated edges, persistent or falling off, with 2 bracteoles, linear or ovate, densely pubescent or glabrous; the calyx tube is densely pubescent or hairy, and the calyx teeth are short, triangular, and about 1mm long; the corolla is white, tubular, sometimes slightly altar-shaped, 5-7mm long, pubescent on the outside, sparsely pubescent on the inside, and the oral lobes are short, triangular, and folded outward; the stamens are hidden; the filaments are slender; the disk is densely pubescent, and the berry is 5-8mm in diameter and purple-brown when ripe. The flowering period is June-July, and the fruiting period is August-October.

2. Candlewood Leaves:

1. The leaves of Candlewood Chrysanthemum contain hexadecane, terpenoids (ketone), epiterpenoid alcohol, quercetin, isoorientin, i.e. p-hydroxycinnamic acid, and meso-inositol. The leaves and young branches contain trace elements such as barium, bromine, boron, iron, manganese, lead, tin, gallium, titanium, nickel, bismuth, molybdenum, vanadium, zirconium, copper, silver, zinc, cobalt and strontium.

2. [Nature and flavor] Sour; astringent; neutral

3. [Entrance] Heart; Spleen; Kidney meridian

4. [Functions and indications] Benefits the stomach and intestines; nourishes the liver and kidneys. Mainly for spleen and stomach qi deficiency; chronic diarrhea; poor appetite; liver and kidney deficiency; weakness in waist and knees; premature graying of hair

5. [Original form] Evergreen shrub or small tree, 2-6(9)m tall. Many branches, young branches with short soft hairs, old branches purple-brown. The petiole is 2-8 mm long, usually glabrous or slightly hairy. The leaves are thin leathery, elliptical, rhomboid-elliptical, or lanceolate-elliptical, 4-9cm long, 2-4cm wide, with sharp and acuminate apex, cuneate base, broad cuneate base, finely serrated edges, flat and shiny surface, 5-7 pairs of lateral veins, extending obliquely to the edge to form a network. The racemes are terminal or axillary, 4-6cm long, with many flowers, and the inflorescence axis is densely pubescent; the bracts are leaf-like, lanceolate, with serrated edges, persistent or falling off, with 2 bracteoles, linear or ovate, densely pubescent or glabrous; the calyx tube is densely pubescent or hairy, and the calyx teeth are short, triangular, and about 1mm long; the corolla is white, tubular, sometimes slightly altar-shaped, 5-7mm long, pubescent on the outside, sparsely pubescent on the inside, and the oral lobes are short, triangular, and folded outward; the stamens are hidden; the filaments are slender; the disk is densely pubescent, and the berry is 5-8mm in diameter and purple-brown when ripe. The flowering period is June-July, and the fruiting period is August-October.