This product is the dried mature fruit of the Olive plant (Canarium album (Lour.) Raeusch.) from the Olive family. It grows in low-altitude mixed forests and is mostly cultivated. It is mainly produced in Fujian, Guangdong, and Hainan, followed by Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan, and Taiwan. The fruit is harvested in autumn when it matures and then dried.

The fruit of the Olive remains green from youth to maturity, hence its common name, Chinese white olive. Among fruits, the Olive has a unique flavor. Initially, it has a bitter and astringent taste, but after a little chewing, it turns into a refreshing fragrance, filling the mouth with saliva and an endless taste. People liken it to the typical "bitterness turning into sweetness" and call it "Chinese olive." In the southern regions, it is also known as "aftertaste Olive." The Yuan Dynasty poet Hong Xiwen once wrote a poem praising it: "The Olive is like a fine gentleman, round on the outside and firm on the inside. Its taste is bitter, sweet, and astringent, and its aroma is clear and fragrant. It aids in sobering up from alcohol and enhances the fragrance of tea. With salt, it leaves a lingering aftertaste, and it is especially good for digestion." Besides being eaten fresh, Olives can also be processed into salted Olives, sugared Olives, spiced Olives, and Liquorice Root Olives.

Olives are divided into white olives and black olives. The prized varieties of white olives include Fujian sandalwood olives, pig kidney olives, and Shantou white olives. Sandalwood olives have smooth skin, a crisp texture, and an excellent taste, making them ideal for fresh consumption. Black olive varieties include autumn black, oil olives, and Xishan olives, which have a wider range of uses. They are mainly produced in Guangdong, have a more bitter and astringent taste, and are suitable for making preserved fruits or used in cooking.

Reality: sour and sweet, warm, nontoxic. Terminalia: sweet, neutral, nontoxic. Core: sweet and astrigent, warm, nontoxic. Act on lung and stomach meridians.

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Olive can generate body fluids, relieve irritability and heat, stimulate the appetite, descend qi, clear the throat and quench thirst, dissolve bones and stop diarrhea, remove toxins, and sober up from alcohol. It can detoxify all kinds of fish and turtle poisons. Fishermen in the southern coastal areas have the habit of putting a few olives in the pot when eating pufferfish.

The liquid distilled from olive fruits is called olive dew, which also has the effects of clearing the lungs, benefiting the pharynx, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, and is suitable for those with sore throat, cough with blood in phlegm, irritability and thirst, alcohol poisoning, and pufferfish poisoning.

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Sore throat, dry mouth, food stagnation and diarrhea, fish bones stuck in throat, fish and turtle poisoning, alcohol poisoning. Burning the pit and grinding it into powder can treat bloody stool, hematuria, and continuous dripping.

1. Chewing raw olive juice and swallowing it slowly can treat fish bones stuck in the throat and sore throat.
2. Grinding olive kernels into powder and applying it to the affected area can treat dry and cracked lips.
3. Mashing green olives and decocting them with water can treat morning sickness.
4. Stewing 20 raw olives with crystal sugar can treat whooping cough;
5. boiling 10 sweet and salty olives each can treat chronic dysentery;
6. boiling 10 fresh olives (crushed) and 250 grams of white radish (sliced) and drinking the decoction twice a day can treat sore throat and tonsillitis. This formula, known as the Green Dragon White Tiger Decoction in the "Wang Meng-ying Medical Records," states that olives "clear the internal fire-wind of the Jueyin and calm its rising flames," while radish "transforms the external dryness-heat of the Taiyin and purges its descending qi." "Combined as a decoction, it dissolves phlegm stagnating in the meridians and detoxifies the poison from rich foods. Used as a tea, it tames the dragon and subdues the tiger, zang - fu organs become clear and harmonious. Not only can it prevent throat diseases, but these two ingredients are also widely available, with unique and superior effects, and can be used long-term without side effects. It truly can prevent invisible ailments, so do not overlook it due to its simplicity."
7. Peeled and pitted olives, 10 sliced, boiled in soup, drinking the juice and eating the flesh can treat post-drinking dizziness.
8. Grinding 7g of olive kernels into powder and taking it infused can treat dry mouth and lips after drinking.

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1. Bencao Yanyi: "Chewing its juice can treat fish bone stuck in the throat."
2. Diannan Bencao: "Treats all throat inflammations, swollen-head infections, resolves dampness-heat, spring warmth, promotes fluid production to quench thirst, benefits phlegm, detoxifies fish poison, alcohol, and food retention."
3. Bencao Qiuzhen: "Olive is a fruit beneficial to the lung and gastrointestinal system, known for promoting fluid production to quench thirst, especially suitable to chew after drinking. If someone is poisoned by the liver or roe of pufferfish or globefish and is in a coma, boiling this and drinking the juice will detoxify."
4. 《隨息居飲食譜》: "Suitable as a fruit snack for children and during recovery from illness."
5. Bencao Gangmu: "Generates body fluids, stops thirst, treats throat pain, chewing and swallowing its juice can detoxify all fish and turtle poisons. ... Nowadays, people use Olive when cooking pufferfish and soft-shelled turtles, knowing that Olive can detoxify all fish and turtle poisons."
6. Rihuazi Bencao: "Stimulates appetite, lowers qi, stops diarrhea."
7. Kaibao Bencao: "Eaten raw or boiled, it can detoxify alcohol and pufferfish poison. If someone is poisoned by the liver of this fish and is in a coma, boiling and drinking its juice will detoxify."
8. A wealthy man from Wujiang got a mandarin fish bone stuck in his chest, causing severe pain that alarmed the neighbors, and was near death after more than half a month. Suddenly, he met a fisherman named Zhang Jiu, who advised him to take Olive. At that time, the fruit was not available, so they ground the pit into powder, mixed it with river water, and administered it urgently. The bone then passed, and he recovered. Zhang Jiu said: "My father passed down that using Olive wood to make fish traps causes fish to float upon contact, hence knowing that fish fear Olive."

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bubble_chart Usage and Dosage

4. 5～9g.

bubble_chart Cautions and Contraindications

1. Olive is neutral in nature and has no contraindications. However, it is said that those with stomach cold pain or deficiency pain should avoid eating it.
2. For those poisoned by pufferfish, taking Olive to remove toxins is only an emergency measure, especially for those with severe poisoning, who should still seek hospital treatment.

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The immature fruit of Terminalia Chebula (also known as "Chinese white olive") is the young fruit (unripe) of the plant Terminalia Chebula from the Combretaceae family. Currently, there are two types of immature Terminalia Chebula fruit available on the market: one is imported from Nepal via Tibet, and the other is domestically produced in China. The difference between the two is that the former is smaller and irregular in shape, while the latter is larger and more similar to an olive (small at both ends and larger in the middle). Although the immature fruit of Terminalia Chebula and the olive belong to different families, their properties and flavors are quite similar. Literature records indicate that they have the effects of clearing heat and promoting fluid production, treating tonsillitis, acute enteritis, bacterial dysentery, pneumonia, and laryngitis, suggesting that their functions are also similar. The mature fruit of Terminalia Chebula is known as Chebula Fruit, traditionally used to treat chronic cough and chronic diarrhea. However, modern literature also records its use in treating lobar pneumonia (combined with Trichosanthis Fruit and Stemona Root), bacterial dysentery, and diphtheria carriers. "Bencao Yanyi Buyi" states: "Chebula Fruit lowers qi, as its bitter taste and rapid nature favor descending. The classic says, 'The lung dislikes urgency, so eat bitter to drain it,' meaning it descends and moves downward, suitable for those with excess qi. ... It treats lung qi damaged by extreme fire, leading to depression and distension, as its sour and bitter taste has the effect of astringing and reducing fire." Therefore, if Chinese white olive is unavailable in Qinglong White Tiger Decoction, it can be replaced with Chinese white olive or Chebula Fruit.

Tinospora Root is the tuberous root of the plant Tinospora from the Menispermaceae family, flat and round in shape, somewhat resembling an olive. It has a bitter and cold nature, is non-toxic, and its effects are similar to those of Chinese white olive and immature Terminalia Chebula fruit, but with stronger heat-clearing and detoxifying properties. It is commonly used for sore throat, acute and chronic enteritis, bacterial dysentery, mumps, upper respiratory tract infections, stomatitis, influenza, acute bronchitis, pneumonia, cold-damage disease, and biliary tract infections, with significant antipyretic and anti-inflammatory effects. However, it is contraindicated for those with deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach.