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Mandarin orange in Yichang
Quyuan's 'singing of orange' was a proof that the mandarin
orange has gown in Yichang for almost 2000 yeas. Thanks
to superior geographical features and climate, the output
of mandarin orange in Yichang is the first of overall
Hubei Province, and there're re many superior breeds.
Navel Orange: The name of naval orange comes from the
subordinate fruit at the top of the orange, which just
like the navel. It's sweat in taste with rich jam. This
kind of orange is popular in Hong Kong, Macao, America,
Canada Australia and Albania.
Red orange: It is a new breed developed from the silk
orange. Its pulp is red -orange, and it's sweet and sour
in taste Main. Producing area: TaipingXi, SanDongPing,
Yichang.
Leaf peak orange: The name is from its leaves that like
the leaves of the peach. It's superior bread chosen from
mandarin orange verities. Its peal is red-orange, smooth
and thin, and it's sweet in taste with delicate fragrance.
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Kiwi
Fruit
The Chinese Kiwi Fruit is the best bread among the multitudinous
wild kiwi fruit varieties. It's sweet and sore in taste
with rich and fragrant juice that is nourishing with vitamin,
fat, protein, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron and
pectin. It's suitable material for spirits and cans, and
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White
Flower peach
It's famous for it's with petal and peal. Its pulp is
white or light green without kernel.
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Chinese
chestnut
Its pulp is red and it's rich in protein, fat, sugar,
starch and coarse fiber. The raw and boiled pulp are both
eatable. It has effects of invigorating the kidney.
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Persimmon
The persimmon can be divided to two kinds: Persimmon for
eating and that for making oil. The former is sweet in
taste and nourishing with protein fat, calcium, phosphorus
iron and vitamin. It can be made into candied persimmon,
persimmon sugar and dried persimmon that can be used as
drug. It's also suitable material for making spirits and
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Jinshui Pear:
Its peel is gold and thin, and its thick pulp is sweet
in taste with rich and fragrant juice .It is superior
breed developed in Dangyang in 1980s and is exported to
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Tea in Yichang |
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Chunmei
Tea
It's famous for it's eye -brow -shaped and green
tea -leaves. Made by Chunguang Tea Factory in WuFeng
autonomous region of Tu minor nationality and it
has won the golden price of international fair in
April 1994.
Cuilv Tea
Grown in the region of the both sides of the Yangtze
River in Yichang and made by Yichang Tea company.
It's bright green, thin and slightly sweet in taste
with the fragrance of boiled Chinese chestnuts.
Jasmine Chunji Tea
It's flower -tea made by Yichang Tea Company, and
it won the reputation of high-quality product of
Hubei Province in 1990. It's thin, slightly yellow
and slightly sweet in taste with the fixed fragrance
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Yihong Congou Tea
It's the best among black teas, and has been exported
to Russia and England since 1800,and it has been
exported a lot to international market and gained
good reputation. It's thin, slight red and sweet
in taste with fragrance.
LuYuan Tea
It's name from its birthplace of LuYuan Temple.
It's thin and yellow. It's grown in Northwestern
Mountains in Yunan'an County with the history of
700 years, and listed in "Research of Famous
Chinese Tea".
Cactus Tea
It's famous for its cactus -shaped leaves. It's
has been grown in Jade Fountain Temple with the
history of 1,200 years and it past the examination
of science committee in Hubei Province to be listed
as one of Famous Hubei Tea.
XiaZhou Bilv Tea
It's thin, green and sweet in taste and is grown
along Taiping Stream in Yichang. And it has past
the examination of science committee in Hubei Province
to be listed as one of famous Hubei Tea in June
1984.
Deng Village Green Tea
It's thin green and slight sweet in taste with long-standing
fragrance. It's made in Deng Village in Yichang
County, and has been marked as one of 40 best teas
in China in 1979.
Silk cotton Tea
Made by Zhoupingjie Tea Factory in Zigui, its bud
is fat, and its leaves are thin, straight and green.
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Fresh
Vegetable in Yichang
Mushroom: There is man -grown mushroom as well as
wild mushroom. It's famous and nourishing edible
fungus with thick pulp, bright color and heavy fragrance.
It's also a kind of Chinese drug indicating to rachitic,
cirrhosis, cholesterin, hypertension and cancer
.It has been exported to south East Asia, Japan,
Hong Kong and Macao.
Agaric: It's divided to black one, white one or
wild and man-grown, and most are black ones which
are used as meal, and white one are used as medicine
mostly. It's semi-transparent, flexible ear-shaped,
delicious and nourishing with protein, fat and sugar,
and has effects of nourishing flood and lung, stopping
bleeding.
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| Muoyu:
Growing at mountain with the elevation of over 500
meters, mainly in the damp and cool fertile area.
It's nourishing with 35%of starch, 3% of protein
and so on. It looks like sponge with the gray or
brown color. It's also used as drug indicating to
hemorrhoids, hypertension, phlebangioma and cancer. |
Laver:
Grown on the sides of stream or ditch, cool and
damp slope, it's smooth with the color of purplish.
It ' s a kind of precious wild resource with protein,
vitamin, Iron and so on, and has the effects of
preventing cancer .It has been exported to Japan
Hong Kong.
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Chinese Drug in Yichang
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Traditional
Chinese Drug in Yichang
Fructus Arctii
A Chinese drug, the dried ripe fruit of Arctium
Lappal. The out put of it in changYang. Zigui and
Xingshan can reaches 150,000 kilos per year.
Indications: wind -heat type common cold, cough,
measles and mumps sore throat, mumps, erysipelas,
carbuncles and sores.
Radix Dipsaci
Chinese drug, the dried radix of Dipsacus asperodies
C.Y. Cheng et T.M. Ai. It's bitter and |
pungent
in taste and slightly warm in nature, and has effects
of replenishing the liver and the kidney, strengthening
the tendons and bones, regulating the blood vessels
.The out pot of in ChangYang, Xingshan and Zigui
reach 262400 kilos per year.
Fructus
Chaenomelis
The dried ripe fructus of chaenomeles Speciosa Na
Kai. It's sore in taste and warm in nature. It has
effects of reliving rigidity of muscles and promoting
circulation of qi and blood in the collaterals,
restoring normal functions of the stomach and removing
dampness.
Indications: arthritis with ankylosis, aching and
heaviness sensation of the loins and knees, muscular
spasm due to vomiting and diarrhea, edema and weakness
of the legs.
Main producing area: ChangYang, WuFeng
Radix Angelicae Pubescentis
The dried root of Angelica pubesscens Maxim.T. biserrate
Shan et Yuan. It is pungent and bitter in taste,
slightly warm in nature and has effects of expelling
wind and dampness, relieving arthralgia and pain.
Main producing area: ChangYang, WuFeng, Xingshan,
Zigui.
Output reaches 350,000 kilos per year.
Rhizome Gastrodiae
The dried stem tuber of Gastrodia elata Bl. It has
the effects of calming the liver, checking endogenous
wind to relieve convulsion.
Indications: headache and dizziness numbress of
the extremities, infantile convulsion, epilepsy,
convulsion and tetanus.
Radix Peucedani
The dried radix of Peucedunum praemptorum Dunn or
Peucedunum decursivum Maxim. It's bitter and pungent
in taste and slightly cold in nature, acts on the
long Meridian and has the effects of dispelling
wind and removing heat, relieving cough and resolving
phlegm.
Indications: cough in respiratory infections with
copious or yellowish sticky expectoration.
Centipede
The dried body of it has the affects of calming
wind and convulsion. Indications: acute infantile
convulsion, convulsion and spasm, wry mouthfrom
apoplexy, hemiplegia, telanus, pyogemic infection
and ulcerous disease of skin, scrofula and poisonous
snakes bites.
Producing area: ZhiJiang, Yichang, Dangyang, Zhicheng,
Yuan'an
Eucommiae
The dried bark of Eucommia Wlmoldes Oliv .It has
effects of nourishing the liver and kidney, strengthening
the bones and muscles and preventing abortion
Indications: aches in the loins due to deficiency
of the kidney, flaccidity of the muscles and bores,
vaginal bleeding pregnancy threatened abortion and
hypertension.
Producing area: Xingshan, ChangYang, WuFeng, Zigui.
Output reaches 53800 kilos per year.
Radix Aucklandiae
The dried root of Aucklandia Lappa Decne .It has
effects of promoting the circulation of qi and alleviating
pain, strengthening the spleen and improving digestion.
Indications: abdominal angina, dysentery, retention
of food.
Producing area: WuFeng, Xingshan.Output reaches
15000 kilos per year.
Herba Schizonepetae
The dried aboveground part of Schizonepeta tenuifolis
Briq. It's pungent in taste, slightly warm in nature
and has the effects of relieving exterior syndromes
by dispelling pathogenic wind and promoting eruption.
Indications: common cold, headache, measles, German
measles and various suppurative infections on the
body surface at their initial stages.
Flos Magnoliae
The dried flower bud of Magnolia biondii Pamp.,
Magnolia denudata Desr or Magnolia sprengeri Pamp.
It has effects of dispelling wind-cold, and relieving
nasal obstruction.
Indications: headache and nasal obstruction in cold,
sinvisities with purulent discharge.
Radix Stemonae
The dried radix of Stemona sessilifolia Miq, stemona
japonica Miq, or stemona tuberosa lour. It's sweet
and bitter in taste and slightly warm in nature,
and has the effects of moistening the lung and relieving
cough and killing louse and parasite.
Indications: for internal use, acute and chronic
cough, cough in phthisis, whooping cough; for external
use, pediculosis capitis, pediculosis corporis,
oxyruiasis, pudend itching.
Radix Puerariae
The dried rout of Pueraria Lobata Ohui or Pueraria
thomsonii Benth It has effects of inducing diaphoresis
to relieve fever, Promoting production of body fluid,
promoting eruption of measles and invigorating the
spleen-yang to relieve diarrhea.
Indications: fever due to exopathogen, headache,
stiffness in the neck, thirst, diabetes, measles
without adequate emption, dysentery of heat type,
diarrhea, hypertension.
Radix Polygoni Multiflori
The dried root tuber of polygonum mutiflorium Thumb
.It has effects of clearing away toxins, eliminating
carbuncles, moistening the bowels and relieving
constipation.
Indications: scrofula, sores and carluncles, German
measles, pruritus, constipation due to dryness of
the bowels and hyperlipemia.
Flos Sophorae
The dried flower and flower buds of Sophora japonica
L. It has effects of arresting bleeding by eliminating
pathogenic heat from the blood and clearing away
liver fire.
Flos Chrysanthemi Indici
It's bitter and pungent in taste and slightly cold
mature .It has effects of clearing away heat and
toxic agent and improving eyesight.
Indications: boils, carbuncles, redness, swelling
and pain of the eye, headache and dizziness.
Semen Cusutae
The dried ripe seeds of Cuscuta Chinese lam. It's
sweat in taste and warm in nature, acts on the liver
the kidney and Spleen Meridians. It has effects
of invigorating the kidney and the liver, arresting
emission and urination soathing fetus, consolidating
the renal essence.
Indications: psychasthenia, mental weakness, lumbago
due to kidney deficiency, frequent micturition,
blurredrision, tinnitus, ringing ear.
Fructus Mori
The dried fructus of Morus albal .It is sweat in
taste and cold in nature, and acts on the liver
and the kidney .It has effects of nourishing the
hair and beard, nourishing blood and promoting the
production of body fluid
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