Today I found such a plant outdoors, too excited, it has a beautiful name called madder, its other names are more, such as called small live blood, blood worry, red madder and so on, it is a historical plant dyeing ointment, at the same time, it is also a classic Chinese medicinal herb, from ancient times to the present, has a very high value.
Today, we're going to get to know this plant. Madder, it is a perennial grassy vine plant of the Rubiaceae family, its vines, the longest can reach three meters, its stem is this square, the edges and corners of the stem, will have this barb skin thorn, its root, is cylindrical, slender, generally yellow-red. The leaves are usually 4 alternate, the leaves are ovate heart-shaped or narrowly ovate, pointed at the apex, full margin, leaf veins 3~5 out, with long stalks, petioles and veins have reverse spines. Flowers, conical inflorescences, apical or axillary, corolla pale yellow 5-lobed, borne on short tubes. The berries are spherical, red when ripe and black when ripe.
Its root, in ancient times, known as red hair, is an excellent dyeing raw material, that up to the royal palace nobles, down to the common people, all like to use its root to make dyes, dye clothes, the dyed clothes, the color is very bright, so it is particularly sought after.
The root of madder, it is a very good Chinese medicinal herb, every autumn we can harvest this root of it, wash it and dry it for later use. There is also a small story about this madder root, that is, according to legend, there was a county magistrate who suddenly flowed red liquid from his nose when he was handling the case, so he asked the following imperial servant to go to the pharmacy to buy this soup medicine, and the owner of the pharmacy quickly boiled a soup medicine and handed it to him after learning the situation, but because he was more anxious, on the way back, this servant spilled this soup medicine, and at this time of anxiety, he saw that not far away, the dyeing room had this red liquid in the dyeing ointment, It looked very similar to this soup, so he had a plan, so he brought a jar home to this county order to drink. Eh, after drinking it, it was miraculously better, and then this servant learned that the red liquid in this dyeing ointment, in fact, is the same as the soup medicine boiled out by the owner of the pharmacy, and its ingredient is the same one, that is, the root of this madder.
Madder has many functions, like the little baby diarrhea can pull out some madder boiled water to soak the feet, the effect is also very good, do you know? Do you have any other names for that? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area to communicate.