Mandarin Japanese

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Mandarin japanese is one of the plants of the family called Rutaceae, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Citrus unschiu Marc. As for the name of the Japanese mandarin family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Rutaceae Juss.

Description of Japanese Mandarin

Japanese mandarin is a small branchy tree, the height of which will reach four meters. Such a tree is endowed with gray bark and evergreen leathery leaves, as well as small fragrant flowers, which, in turn, will sit in the axils of leaves one by one or gather in two or three pieces. The calyx of this plant will be four to five toothed, the corolla consists of four to five fleshy petals, while the Japanese mandarin has a lot of stamens and they are endowed with underdeveloped anthers, while there is only one pistil.

The fruits of this plant are round-flattened, they are endowed with a slightly detachable thin aromatic peel, sweet and sour in taste and orange-yellow in color. The flowering of Japanese mandarin occurs in the period from February to April. In this case, the ripening of the fruits of this plant will occur in the month of October-November. Under natural conditions, this plant will be cultivated in Azerbaijan and on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. At the same time, Japan is the homeland of the Japanese mandarin.

Description of the medicinal properties of Japanese mandarin

Japanese mandarin is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while for medicinal purposes it is recommended to use the fruits and peels of the ripe fruits of this plant, both dried and fresh. The presence of such valuable medicinal fruits is recommended to be explained by the content of thiamine, vitamins, phytoncides, sugars, citric and other organic acids in the pulp of the ripe fruits of this plant. The peel of this plant will contain hesperidin, tarikaxanthin, violaxanthin, beta-carotic, lute and also a large amount of essential oil. The essential oil of Japanese mandarin contains citral, limonene, citronellal, caprylic and methyl ester of anthranilic acid. Actually, it is these elements that will give the characteristic taste and smell of tangerine oil.

It should be noted that the fruits of this plant will be a very valuable dietary product. Japanese mandarin fruits will increase appetite and help normalize metabolic processes and strengthen the body, as well as help to weaken peristalsis. Due to this, such fruits are useful for various diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, which will be accompanied by diarrhea. In the form of compresses, it is recommended to use the fresh juice of this plant, which is endowed with the ability to kill some fungi that will cause various skin diseases, including microsporia and trichophytosis. In addition, with such diseases, repeated rubbing of the juice of the lobules of this plant into the areas of the skin affected by the fungus is also performed.

On the basis of the peel of this plant, a bitter tincture is prepared, which is recommended to improve digestion and appetite, as well as to improve the separation of phlegm and soften cough. The infusion and decoction, prepared from dried peel of Japanese mandarin in water, is recommended to drink to improve expectoration and soften cough in pneumonia, tracheitis and bronchitis. As for Chinese traditional medicine, here this plant has become quite widespread: the peel of ripe fruits is used for whooping cough, pneumonia, bronchitis, tracheitis, and also as a means that will help improve digestion.

The fruits of Japanese mandarin are also widely used in cooking: they are used to prepare compotes, preserves, sweets and marmalade.