Introduction: Resembling a snakeberry, folk customs called "five-leaf snakeberry", the use of life is very powerful, has helped many people
In the countryside, there are many wild plants, these plants have known, there are also unknown, even if you grow in the countryside there are many plants can not be named, and there are many similar plants, always make people can not distinguish clearly.
When it comes to snakes, everyone is afraid of them. There are also some plants in nature with the word "snake" in their names, such as the snakeberry that everyone is very familiar with. Because its name has the word "snake", it is naturally related to snakes, so it resembles a strawberry fruit that everyone dares not eat.
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In fact, the fruit of the snakeberry can be eaten, and it is also a good medicine to treat snake wounds. The plant that the author shares today, its shape looks exactly like a snakeberry, but the leaves of the snakeberry are three, and its leaves are five, so it is commonly known as "five-leaf snakeberry" in folklore.
The scientific name of the five-leaf snakeberry is actually called snake han weiling dish, it also has a well-known alias called five-clawed dragon in the folk, because its leaves are 5 pieces, it looks like a five-clawed dragon, so it is named five-clawed dragon, and some people call it five-horse wind, five-clawed wind and other aliases.
It is an annual or biennial herb of the genus Rosaceae, mostly growing in fields, hillsides, meadows, watersides and other places. It is distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Tibet, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hubei and other regions on the mainland.
People who know the five-leaf snakeberry know that it not only has 5 leaves and fine serrations on the edges, but also the blossom is also 5 petals, it blooms with small yellow flowers, similar to the flowers of the snakeberry, if you do not look at its leaves carefully, many people will mistake them.
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In the previous era of lack of food and medicine, the young leaves of the five-leaf snakeberry are also a very delicious wild vegetable, often picked to fry food, make soup, make stuffed dumplings, etc., can also be used to cook with tofu, delicious and delicious, and rich in nutrition, loved by the people, in the past helped many people.
Five-leaf snakeberry can not only be eaten, but also has a high medicinal value, and has been a commonly used folk medicine since ancient times. Five-leaf snakeberry is one of the 365 herbs in the "Shennong Materia Medica", and the whole herb can be medicated, which has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, dissolving phlegm and cough.
In life, it can be used for high fever and convulsions, lung fever cough, lung abscess, sore throat, sore and swollen poison, dysentery, pertussis, malaria, wind and fire toothache, lymph node tuberculosis, red swelling pain, rheumatic numbness, bruises, trauma and bleeding and other diseases have a certain effect.
In addition, the five-leaf snakeberry is a low plant plant, and the branches and leaves are luxuriant, the color is emerald green, the flowers are beautiful, it has a certain ornamental value, and can be raised as a bonsai species, which can be eaten, ornamental, and can also be medicated, and has a strong use in life.
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Therefore, "folk grass is not idle, and the right ones are treasures", and some seemingly useless wild grasses also have their own survival value. For example, this five-leaf snakeberry, many people are afraid when they hear its name, but they do not know that it is precious and is a Chinese herbal medicine for blindly preventing and curing diseases.
Friends, do you have this kind of five-leaf snakeberry in your hometown that resembles a snakeberry? I didn't expect it to be worth so well, it was very useful in life, and it helped many people. What used to be common on the side of the road is now rare. If you can still meet it in your hometown, please pay attention to it in time.