Zi Su Zi Alcohol FREE Liquid Extract Zi Su Zi Perilla Perilla Frutescens Fruit Glycerite Herbal Supplement 2 oz

Perilla seeds, also known as shiso seeds or Su Zi in Pinyin, were first recorded as a Chinese herb in the “Compendium of Materia Medica”, a famous herbology book written by medical sage Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty. Purple perilla plant has been cultivated in China for nearly 2,000 years for the purposes of medicine, oil, spice, food, and so on. Its young leaves can be eaten raw and cooked soup while stems can be pickled. Perilla is becoming a multipurpose plant with high nutritional value in recent years, thanks to its unique active substances and nutrients. Perilla frutescens seed contains protein 17% and oil 51.7%. And oil is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, linolenic acid 56.8%, and linoleic acid 17.6%.