Chinese herbal medicine has a long history of medicinal use in the mainland, some seemingly ordinary wild grasses have its unique medicinal value, in the past when there was a shortage of medicine and Chinese medicine prevailed, these herbs played a vital role, and there are still many traditional medicines in the folk, and knowing them can play a great role in life.
For example, the weed that the author shared today is a very common weed in the countryside, but its medicinal value is very high, but many people don't know about it now, and only the older generation understands its value.
Because the stem nodes of this wild grass are obviously expanded, it looks somewhat similar to the knee of the cow, and it is flexible like iron, so it is called "iron oxknee", and in some places it is also called the white oxknee, false oxknee, soil hyssop, red hyssop, white hyssop, bullsknee head, Du oxknee, etc.
Presumably many people know that the scientific name of this weed is the famous soil hyssop in the countryside. When the soil hyssop is still a young seedling, at first glance it looks like the amaranth we often eat in our lives, so it has the other names of mountain amaranth, false amaranth, and wild amaranth.
Because the soil hyssop is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Amaranthaceae, it is the same family as amaranth, so it will grow somewhat similar. It is distributed in many provinces and regions of the mainland, and we often see its traces on the roadside, ditch side, wasteland, hillside, village edge, grass and other places in the countryside.
Speaking of earth hyssop, many people have seen it, but they don't know much about its plants. Although the stem nodes of the earth hyssop are enlarged, its stem is cylindrical purple-red, the leaves are opposite, round-ovate, the apex is acute, both have fussy hairs, the color is emerald green, and it looks very appetizing.
Many people of the older generation know that the young seedlings of the soil hyssop are rare wild vegetables in the poor period, which can be used for stir-frying, cold dressing, soup, filling, boiling noodles, shabu-shabu, etc., the taste is delicious, and it also has a unique flavor to eat, and it is also the best among many wild vegetables.
The seedlings of the soil hyssop are still relatively popular among the people, but when it blooms and bears fruit, it is often disliked, because of its long spike-like inflorescences, which bloom with small green flowers in summer and autumn, the flowers are very small, but there are many of them, and they look like small whips.
This kind of small whip-like inflorescence will produce a lot of seeds when it matures, and its seeds are upside down and close to the flower axis, as if they grow upside down, if you touch it, you will be hooked by it, which is extremely annoying, so many people call it "inverted grass".
Since ancient times, the earth hyssop has been a commonly used folk medicine, but now that the medical conditions are getting better and better, these herbs are gradually forgotten. It is recorded in the "Shennong's Materia Medica" that the soil oxknee has the effects of invigorating blood circulation, tonifying the liver and kidneys, strengthening muscles and bones, and diluting water.
Soil hyssop medicinal whole herb, generally in the flowering period is better to collect, for cold, long-term heat, rheumatoid arthritis, waist and knee bruising, bone pain, headache, sore throat, dysentery, urinary stones, unfavorable urination, menstrual irregularities and other diseases have a certain effect.
Dear friends, do you have this kind of earth hyssop in your hometown? Its stem is like oxknee, known as "iron oxknee", which is invigorating and invigorating, and is indispensable for tonifying the kidney and strengthening the waist and knees, and its value is extremely precious. If you meet in your hometown, you want to pay attention to it.
Remark:
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