The countryside is a magician of nature, and a variety of wild plants can be conjured throughout the year, all striving to bloom in their own shapes. Although these plants may look ordinary, a closer look reveals that their shapes are very similar to many things in our lives.
For example, the plant we are going to distribute today, it is a very interesting plant, the leaves are all gathered at the top of the branches, the leaves are narrow-lanceolate, and the umbrella-like whorls, at first glance, it looks like the shape of the umbrella commonly used in our lives, so it is called "umbrella grass".
Many people don't know that in fact, the botanical scientific name of umbrella grass is narrow-leaved plum. There are many kinds of aliases for the narrow-leaved plum, such as an umbrella, back flowers, lampstand grass, broken umbrellas, wind chasing umbrellas, storm umbrellas, umbrella leaf grass, male bone pills, etc.
It is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Pearl of the primulaceae family, which grows mostly in shrubs, ditches, understories, dense forests, valleys, stone walls, etc. at an altitude of 1200 to 1800 meters, and is mainly distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Zhejiang and other provinces and regions in the mainland.
Although it is shaped like an umbrella, it is only about 18 to 28 centimeters tall, and its rhizomes are thick and short, and the stems are erect and usually clustered. Although it is not tall, its stem is not branched, and there are bulging knots on the stem, like our knees.
Not only are the leaves clustered at the top of the branches, but the flowers are at the top of the branches, with long peduncles and golden flowers, which look particularly beautiful. From May to June every year, it is the season when the plum blossoms bloom on the ground with narrow leaves, and because of its beautiful plant shape, the flowers are golden yellow, and it has a strong ornamental value.
Narrow-leaved plum is a relatively rare plant in the countryside, so there are not many people who have seen it, and there are very few people who understand its value, only some of the older generation are very familiar with it, because it has a certain effect on rheumatism, so it is called "rheumatic grass" by the older generation, and the old people with rheumatism look for it.
In fact, the medicinal value of the narrow-leaved plum, its medicinal whole herb, has the effect of dispelling wind and dehumidification, invigorating blood and turning cancer, and fixing the convulsion of muscles, and has an effect on cough, upper respiratory tract infection, tonsillitis, pharyngitis, rheumatic numbness, rheumatic paralysis, soreness of waist and knees, hemiplegia, neuralgia, snake bite and other diseases.
For many older generations, every year in the rainy season, this humid and cold environment is easy to contract rheumatic diseases, especially on rainy days, it is unbearable, it can be said to be a kind of weather forecasting feet. And the narrow-leaved plum, it is a good rheumatic medicine, so it is also known as "chasing wind grass".
The environment in which each plant grows has a great influence on its growth characteristics. There is a bulging nodule on the stem of the narrow-leaved plum, and this nodule resembles our joints. The so-called "form complements form", and the narrow-leaved plums are of great help to our knees.
Dear friends, do you have this kind of narrow-leaved plum in your hometown? It is a plant that looks like an umbrella, known as "chasing wind grass", and the elderly look for it when they have rheumatism, and its value is extremely precious. If you meet it in your hometown, you might as well transplant it and take it home and plant it, which can be of great help in life.
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