Introduction: The leaves are like gourds, folk customs are "rejuvenation herb", used to boil tea is a must, or a good medicine for skin diseases
The countryside is the world of wild grass, whether in the past or now, there are all kinds of wild grasses everywhere, their vitality is extremely tenacious, always in addition to long, long and removed, seriously affecting the growth of crops, so that farmers have a headache.
Since the introduction of herbicides, although there have been fewer weeds that plague crops than before, they have also removed many useful weeds. For example, in the past, the field base yellow, xihuang grass, white flower snake tongue grass, dandelion, houttuynia cordata, summer dry grass, etc., which were precious in value, are now less and less.
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The plant I share today was often seen on the side of the road when I was a child, but I haven't seen it for many years now. Its leaves are more unique, a leaf on one side of the large side small, the size of the leaves is connected, looks like the shape of a gourd, so the ancients gave it a very interesting scientific name called gourd tea.
Gourd tea is also known as gourd leaf, reed tea, razor handle, pu reed grass, salted fish grass, cordyceps, Bailao tongue and other aliases. It is a shrub of the legume family Cucurbitaceae, mostly growing in roadsides, hills, meadows, and shrublands. It is distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and other regions of the mainland.
In the past, gourd tea is more common, but also a common folk herbal tea material, farmers will pick boiled water every summer as herbal tea to drink, not only can prevent heat stroke, anti-cold, but also has the effect of clearing heat and dissipating stagnation, often drunk when childhood, so many people know it.
Gourd tea also has a well-known alias called "soul re-rejuvenation herb" in the folk. This is because in the past farmers often worked in the hot summer, so there was often a phenomenon of heat stroke, when they felt dizzy and weak, then the older generation would use gourd tea to boil water to drink, and it could be recovered immediately, so it was commonly known as "soul grass" in folklore.
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In addition, it also has an alias "salted fish grass" is also derived from this, because after heat stroke, drink some gourd tea, just like salted fish can immediately turn over, recover quickly, so many people call it "salted fish grass".
In fact, in addition to boiling herbal tea, gourd tea is also a commonly used folk skin disease medicine, such as skin itching, eczema, urticaria, warts vulgaris, shingles, hand and foot ringworm, corn and other skin diseases have a certain curative effect, collect gourd tea whole grass boiling water to clean.
At the same time, gourd tea also has a certain medicinal value, it can be used in the whole herb, and all seasons are picked, with heat and detoxification, dampness and stagnation, insecticidal and antiseptic effects, cold, heat stroke, food stagnation, tonsillitis, hypertension, pediatric chancre, cervical erosion, acute nephritis, diarrhea, rheumatic joint pain and other diseases have an effect.
It can be said that hulu tea is a treasure all over the body, and its role is very much, which has helped many people in the past. It can also be used to cook pig's feet, boiled bone soup, boiled chicken soup, etc., which can not only supplement nutrition to the body, but also achieve the role of disease prevention and treatment, and people in their hometown like to eat.
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It is precisely because gourd tea has so many effects that more and more people are picking it. The original shortage of gourd tea coupled with the abuse of herbicides, now the wild gourd tea is less and less, close to the state of extinction, it is really a pity.
Friends, do you have this kind of gourd tea in your hometown? Its leaves are like gourds, folk commonly known as "rejuvenation herb", used to boil tea is a must, or a good medicine for skin diseases, the value is very precious, but unfortunately it is rare nowadays. If you meet in your hometown, please pay attention to it in time.