Cassia wine Cassia wine Cassia wine, osmanthus wine, or Kuei Hua Chen Chiew is an alcoholic Chinese drink, sometimes sweetened, produced from weak baijiu and flavored with sweet osmanthus flowers. It is distilled, but typically has an alcohol content less than 20%. While the plant itself is sometimes associated with cinnamon, the blossoms' lactones impart a flavor closer to apricots and peaches. Owing to the timing of the plant's blossoms, cassia wine is the traditional choice for the "reunion wine" drunk on the Mid-Autumn or Mooncake Festival. From the homophony between and (meaning "long" in the sense of time passing), cassia wine
Cassia javanica is used medicinally as a substitute to "Cassia fistula" for treating constipation, colic, chlorosis and urinary disorders. Its leaves are effective against herpes simplex and the bark of "C. javanica" is one of the ingredients in ayurvedic and other traditional medicine antidiabetic formulations. "C. javanica" yields a lightweight to heavy hardwood that is used for general construction, furniture and cabinet making. The bark of "C. javanica" is used for tanning in the leather processing industry. Cassia javanica Cassia javanica, also known as Java cassia, pink shower, apple blossom tree and rainbow shower tree (), is a species of tree in