To the hand incense, also known as touch incense, to the hand incense, left hand incense, because the touch will produce a comfortable aroma, scientific name: Pogostemoncablin Bent, English name: Patchouli. It is a perennial herb of the genus Lip-shaped Flowers , native to Malaysia and India. It is an ornamental herb that is often cultivated by the average family. Also known as life-prolonging grass; In Guangdong and western Guangdong and other regions commonly known as: also soul grass.
Morphological characteristics of left-handed incense
The hand incense plant is about 15 to 30 cm tall, and the whole plant is densely covered with fine hairs, with a strong special spicy fragrance.
The leaves are thick, paraphyletic, broadly ovate, with a pure round or sharp apex, and a somewhat rolled up toothed margin.
Sub-shrub-like perennial herb. Multi-branched, the whole plant is covered with fine white hairs. Fleshy leaves, alternately paraphyletic, green, ovate, with blunt serrations at the edges. The stem is slender, creeping, branched, rounded, hairy leaves, small flowers, white.
It is known as "bumpy incense" because it can emit a pleasant aroma after touching. Because of its strong and sweet aroma, quite similar to the aroma of apples, it also enjoys the reputation of "apple fragrance". It smells refreshing.
Growth habits: like sunshine, can be cultivated in full sunshine throughout the year, but also more shade-tolerant. Prefers warmth, fears cold, and needs temperatures above 0 °C in winter.
Prefer loose, well-drained soil, not tolerant to water and moisture, too wet is easy to rot roots to death.
Left-handed incense planting techniques
To the hand incense mainly breeding cuttings, spring and autumn are the right period, growing rapidly. The cultivation soil is best with loose and fertile humus soil or sandy loam soil, which needs good drainage, shade tolerance, drought tolerance, and high temperature. The application of heartbreaking can promote branching.
Folk flat square to hand fragrant fresh leaves or heart leaves plucked and washed, with a few grains of salt in the mouth for a few minutes, you can cure cough sore throat and hoarse voice.
Left-handed incense propagation method
It is easy to cultivate and is suitable for potting. Loved the sunny surroundings. Watering and fertilization should be reduced or stopped on cloudy days. Because there are many branches and grow at a horizontal level, the plant spacing should be wide to make the branches and leaves stretch.
The pot should be cushioned under the pot to avoid the branches on the side of the pot touching the flower stand. Propagation is carried out by a variety of methods of sowing, cuttings and splitting.
Propagation by cuttings can take root in about 20 days, and can be transplanted in small pots after rooting. Easy to cultivate.
Left hand incense management maintenance
1. Light and temperature
Touch incense likes the sun, but it is also more resistant to shade. Afraid of the cold, it needs to be cultivated in a greenhouse. Not resistant to moisture. Loves warmth and is intolerant of cold. Winter requires a temperature of 5 °C - 10 °C. Touch incense likes a sunny environment, and the fleshy leaves will be thick under strong light; Leaves that are ill-lit will become flattened and thinner.
2. Soil
Touch the loose, well-drained soil.
3. Ventilation
Because the touch incense is cultivated in the greenhouse all year round, it requires air circulation and freshness, otherwise it is vulnerable to beetles.
4. Water
Touching incense is not resistant to moisture, and if it is too wet, it is easy to rot the root to death. The soil should be dry and wet, and watering and fertilization should be reduced or stopped on cloudy days. After the summer, it is necessary to water less, and in the winter, it is even more necessary to control the watering. Generally, it is necessary to see the leaves wilt before watering, otherwise it is easy to grow.
5. Trim
Because it is easy to branch when touching incense, it grows on a horizontal plane, so the plant row spacing should be wide when colonizing, so that the branches and leaves can be stretched. Moderate pruning promotes branching and robust growth.
Medicinal value of left-handed incense
Medicinal uses: whole grass cooling, anti-inflammatory, wind, detoxification, treatment of cold fever, tonsillitis, throat inflammation, pneumonia, cold and heat, headache, chest and abdomen full of stuffiness, vomiting and diarrhea. Wounded externally with a fire knife.
There are not many kinds of herbs for the treatment of ear inflammation, "to the hand incense" is a common and the best effect, the shape and fragrance is special, but also can cure burns, for the general family often available herbs, can be planted in pots for backup.
To the hand incense alias herbs, row vanilla, foreign peppermint, as the name suggests, to the hand can smell the special aroma, very easy to identify, the stem and leaves are thick and crisp, cuttings can be multiplied, flat or cool, sweet and spicy, the main into the lungs, stomach, large intestine three meridians, there is a line of qi, heat, anti-inflammatory, damp, phlegm, anti-nausea, stomach and other effects.
As mentioned earlier, to the hand incense is a special medicine for the treatment of ear inflammation, ear redness, swelling, inflammation, fever, take to the hand fragrant young stems and leaves, knead the juice into the ear, soon after can eliminate the discomfort of swelling and pain fever.
In addition to the indications for the treatment of ear inflammation, colds, headaches, coughs, sore throats, tonsil inflammation, heat stroke, fever, vomiting, stuffiness, weak stomach, spleen deficiency, abdominal colic, boils, swelling, bruises, etc., have good effects.
Cure tonsillitis sore throat: take hand incense, hexagonal english, soy sauce grass, mint, a stick of incense, red under the leaves, bamboo leaf grass, small gold and other fresh leaves, add watermelon, pear, star fruit, grapefruit, orange, grapefruit and other fruits as energy soup, take it on an empty stomach.
Burns: The wound must first be soaked in cold or ice water, and then mashed into herbs such as hand incense, Manjushri, pine leaf peony, potatoes, hollyhocks, and money mint.
Shock, prostration: Use hand incense, mint, mountain incense, camphor heart, etc. to crush the patient's nose and mouth for several minutes, and add citrus fruits as energy soup to take.
Spleen and stomach weakness: Usually, you can pick and chew the young leaves of the hand, or use the hand incense, plum juice, bitter vegetables, mint, sweet potato leaves, stinky apricots, money mint, dandelion, etc., add melon, papaya, longan, passion fruit, grapefruit and citrus fruits for energy soup, and drink fresh before meals.
Ornamental: Suitable for potted ornamentation. It smells refreshing and the market is favored. It should be placed on a high place or suspended indoors, and can also be used as an ornament for several cases and desks. The leaves make tea and wine, and the strange aroma is tempting. It can also be cooked, soup, stir-fried, and cold mixed.
Medicinal uses: juice and honey raw food to relieve sore throat, boiled into tea can relieve flatulence and colds, mashed external compresses can reduce inflammation and swelling and can maintain the skin.
Left hand incense incense reason
The reason for the scent of the touch incense is similar to the principle of "shyness" of mimosa, when its leaves are stimulated by touch, the moisture in the cells will act, causing the expansion pressure of the leaf pillow to change. Unlike mimosa, the leaves that touch the incense do not shrink under the action of expansion, but are used to expand the pores of ventilation, and a volatile substance with an apple fragrance spreads into the air along the pores. In fact, usually touching the incense will also emit a faint fragrance, but this fragrance is lighter and less easy to be detected, when its leaves are touched, this fragrance becomes thick (there are also on the hand), people feel that it is fragrant when it is touched.
Left hand incense leaf treatment method
1, light problems: touch the incense like the sun, the sunny environment will be thick fleshy leaves, insufficient light leaves will become flat and thin. Placed in the light at an appropriate time, too high a temperature will also cause the leaves to turn yellow.
2, watering problems: touch incense is not resistant to water wetness, water is very easy to cause rotten roots, and rotten roots will cause yellow leaves. The soil should be dry and wet, and watering and fertilization should be reduced or stopped on cloudy days. After the summer, it is necessary to water less, and in the winter, it is even more necessary to control the watering. Improper operation of the method will cause the leaves to turn yellow.
3, fertilization problems: for potted plants, although the soil is limited, fertility is insufficient, but in the fertilization should be based on the principle of thin fertilizer and more application, that is, give a little fertilizer each time, fertilize every few days, do not give too much fertilizer at once.
4, ventilation problems: bump incense is cultivated in the greenhouse all year round, requiring air circulation and freshness, otherwise it is easy to be harmed by shell insects, resulting in yellowing of leaves. It should be placed in well-ventilated areas for culture.
5, lignification: touch the incense for a long time, the bottom stem will slowly lignify, but also cause the surrounding leaves to yellow, and then wither, this is normal.