Introduction: The precious plants in the deep mountains, commonly known as "stone rats", are now rare goods, and if you are lucky enough to meet them, it is a blessing
Rural wild resources are abundant, growing a lot of wild plants, these plants have their own characteristics and values. Especially in the deep mountains, they are more precious, and some are even valuable Chinese medicinal herbs.
For example, horse chestnut flower, clematis fern, one-legged fairy grass, mountain party ginseng, chicken blood vine, golden leopard, panlong ginseng, cattle vigorously, earth poria, golden thread lotus, diamond vine, etc., these are precious Chinese medicinal materials in the deep mountains, and they are very rare.
The plant that I share with you today is also a precious plant in the deep mountains, and it is commonly known as "stone rat" in folklore. Because its roots were just dug out and a lump of black, it looked like a rat at first glance, so everyone called it "stone mouse".
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In fact, its scientific name is called Clover Green. As the name suggests, the three-leaf green naturally has three leaves, and it has three leaves at each fork, and it is evergreen in all seasons, so the ancients named it three-leaf green.
There is also a very interesting nickname for clover in the folk called "Golden Thread Hanging Gourd". Because its roots are like small gourds, there are several small silk threads hanging on it, so it is also called a gold thread hanging gourd.
In the folk, there are many common names for clover, such as snake appendages, golden thread hanging sweet potatoes, golden thread hanging potatoes, golden thread hanging mice, ground mice, etc., these aliases are named according to its characteristics.
Clover is a perennial evergreen vine of the genus Viculaceae, and its vines are thin and small, like gold threads. It is mainly distributed in the southern region, and mostly grows in the mountains, valleys, sparse forests, forest edges, bushes and other humid environments.
Since ancient times, clover has been a common folk herb, especially in the countryside of the southern region. In the past, there were often snakes in the village, and trilobite green is a well-known snake medicine that has a good effect on venomous snake bites.
There are many medicinal parts of clover green, its leaves, stems and vines, and tubers can be used in medicine, and in the "Chinese Pharmacopoeia" recorded, tubers are the real medicinal parts, and the medicinal effect is higher.
The tubers of clover green are even known as the "medicine king", which shows how high its medicinal value is. It has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, rationalizing qi and strengthening the spleen, activating blood and dispersing knots, anti-inflammatory and analgesic, dispelling phlegm, and is effective for pneumonia, hepatitis, bronchitis, laryngitis, dysentery, tonsillitis, pediatric convulsions, viral meningitis, venomous snake bites and other diseases.
In addition, trilobite also has a certain anti-cancer effect. It contains a special total flavonoids, which have been studied to be one of the main substances that inhibit swollen cancer, especially for lung cancer, liver cancer, breast cancer and so on.
As the role of clover is known to more and more people, and even people often come to buy, so many people go up the mountain to dig, and the price is rising. Although the price sells for a few hundred yuan a catty, it is not easy to dig up a catty in a few days.
The trilobacete green is a perennial plant, it takes several years or more to grow up, with the more people digging, so the wild trilobite green is now more and more rare, and now it is a rare commodity.
Friends, do you have this kind of clover in your hometown? It is a precious plant in the mountains, commonly known as the "stone rat". It is precious in value, and now it is a rare commodity, but it is unattainable, and if you are lucky enough to meet it on the mountain, it is a blessing, please cherish it.