Introduction: The leaves are like wormwood leaves, often mistaken for wormwood, it is poisoned throughout the plant, everyone must not admit mistakes
In the countryside, there are a variety of wild plants, some can be eaten as wild vegetables, some can be fed to pigs, some can also be medicated to treat diseases, each plant has its own value and use.
In particular, delicious wild vegetables have always been loved by the people. Among many wild vegetables, mugwort is a more popular wild vegetable, which not only contains a unique mugwort flavor, but also can be used in medicine to treat diseases, which is helpful for women's gynecological diseases, so it is called "women's grass".
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It can be said that the value of Mugwort is very much. However, there are thousands of plants in nature, and many plants have leaves that look very similar to mugwort leaves, such as wild chrysanthemum leaves, white artemisia leaves, motherwort leaves, etc., these are edible wild vegetables, even if they are wrong.
But not all plants are harmless, and there is another plant in nature whose leaves also look very similar to mugwort leaves, but its entire plant is poisonous, and it is not good to mistakenly think that mugwort leaves are bad.
The scientific name of this plant is called fennel garlic, but it has nothing to do with fennel and garlic, but is a perennial herb of the genus Tricholone in the family Tricholaceae, mostly wild in the fields, streams, meadows, ponds and other moist places.
Most of the plants of the family Trichomeae are smallly poisonous, and accidental ingestion can lead to dizziness, vomiting, burning in the mouth, heart-wagging, severe abdominal pain, breathing difficulties, pupil dilatation and other problems, and in severe cases, respiratory failure and death.
Our local people are not called fennel garlic, it has a well-known nickname in the folk called "water wormwood", because it likes to grow in places with water, the leaves are similar to mugwort leaves, so there is "water wormwood" in the folk.
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In addition to the leaves and mugwort leaves are similar, other parts are completely different from wormwood, it blooms yellow flowers, some similar to wild chrysanthemums, the fruit is green, looks like arbutus, so it is also known as "water arbutus".
Although its fruit is similar to bayberry, it is inedible, and its taste is very spicy and not delicious, so it is not worried about poisoning due to accidental eating, and when we were young, we all called it "water pepper".
Although wormwood is poisonous, it is not useless, and its value is very high, the whole herb can be medicated, with anti-inflammatory, anti-swelling, analgesic, malaria-carrying, insecticidal effect, hepatitis, cirrhosis, gastritis, ulcer asthma, malaria, rheumatic joint pain and other diseases have a certain effect.
Wormwood grows strongly, has a long growth cycle, and has a strong effect on absorption, removal and purification of sewage during the growth process, which can effectively improve water quality, protect water resources and the environment, and have a better role in purifying sewage.
In addition, wormwood also has a good role in the folk, collecting wormwood mashing, and then diluting with water and spraying indoors, which can drive away mosquitoes, so it is called "mosquito repellent grass" by farmers.
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So every plant in nature has its value and use, some are poisonous, some are not poisonous, like wormwood, a poisonous plant, it looks like wormwood, so it is often mistaken for wormwood, so everyone must recognize it when picking wormwood.
Wormwood smells like a unique mugwort flavor, while wormwood has no taste, so it doesn't make a mistake and it's very easy to distinguish.
Friends, do you have this kind of wormwood in your hometown? Its leaves are like wormwood leaves, often mistakenly recognized as wormwood, its whole plant is poisonous, everyone must not recognize the mistake, be careful of poisoning!