Introduction: Common name "heat-dropping grass", the leaves are like a notched bowl, people who recognize goods often dig it, and now it is rare
Rural areas have been the world of all kinds of herbs since ancient times, and it is also the favorite place for many old Chinese medicine practitioners to collect herbs, and friends living in the countryside will naturally know some herbs, which have helped many diseases of our bodies, and indeed helped many people in the past era of lack of medical care and medicine.
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Today, the weed that the author shares with you, presumably friends in rural areas know it, because it is too common in rural areas, and it is also a commonly used medicine among the people, and it can be used for many small physical problems in life.
This kind of weed is all very familiar with Centella asiatica, in the past many plants scientific names are named according to its shape characteristics, Centella Asiatica is called Centella Asiatica, because its leaves are like a small turquoise umbrella, every year when frost and snow, its leaves will be covered with snow, so the name Centella Asiatica.
It also has a famous alias in the folk called Bangda Bowl, speaking of Bangda Bowl, many rural friends must know that because of its small umbrella-like leaves, and it looks like a bowl with a missing mouth, so it is called Bangda Bowl.
In addition, he has many aliases, such as Leigong root, broken bowl, dingcai, husband's root, lamp cabbage, money chisel, even money grass, broken copper money, horseshoe grass and other aliases, it is a perennial herb of the umbrella flower family Centella asiatica.
Centella asiatica generally likes to grow on moist low grassland, and there are wild places such as fields, gardens, roadsides, ditches and other places, mainly distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Hunan, Hubei and other provinces and regions on the mainland.
Anyone who knows Centella Asiatica knows that it is a very short plant, no more than 10 cm tall, the stem is long and thin, growing creepingly, and rooting on the nodes, so it is a large piece of growth, a large piece of green and oily and looks like a missing bowl, it looks very different, and the degree of recognition is very high.
Friends in the countryside know that Centella asiatica is an herb with high medicinal value, and it is also a commonly used medicine in the folk, its medicinal whole herb, with the effect of clearing heat and moisture, cooling blood diuresis, anti-inflammatory and detoxification, and has a good effect on various febrile diseases and high fever, so there is "heat-reducing grass" in the folk.
At the same time, it has a certain effect on cold, fever, polydipsia, laryngitis, tonsillitis, sore throat, hepatitis, jaundice, heat stroke diarrhea, dry lungs and cough, dysentery, shingles, carbuncles, boils, bruises and other diseases.
Many older generations know that centella asiatica is a traditional medicine of the people, and it is also a necessary herbal tea raw material in the summer in the southern region, and people who understand it will pick some every year to dry and store it for later, and use it to make tea and drink, which does play a great role in life.
Because Centella Asiatica has such a great effect, more and more people are picking it, and the destruction of the environment has led to the fact that Centella Asiatica, which used to be everywhere, is now becoming less and less.
Dear friends, is there such a centella asiatica in your hometown? The common name is "heat-reducing grass", the leaves are like a notched bowl, people who recognize goods often dig it, and it is rare nowadays. If you meet it in your hometown, please pay attention to it in time, it really has a lot of effects.