Introduction: The flower blooms like a button, the village people call it "antidote weed", people who understand it are looking for it, the effect is very large
Everyone knows that there are a variety of weeds growing in the countryside, although these weeds look very ordinary, but they contain their own unique value and use, many young people now do not know their value, but for the older generation is "rural weeds are treasures".
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Today, the author shares with you this weed, it can be said to be a very common weed in the countryside, can often be seen on the side of the road, because its flowers are more special, the shape resembles the buttons on our clothes, and the color is golden yellow, so its scientific name is called gold buttons, a very graphic name.
Speaking of gold buttons, friends in the countryside may not know, it has a very atmospheric common name called astronomical grass in the folk. In addition, umbrella grass, rhubarb flower, scattered blood grass, small copper hammer, yellow flower bitter grass, bitter grass, sea dragon, quasi-thyria, Baye Hao, etc. are all its aliases.
Golden button is a perennial herb of the Asteraceae family, which can usually be seen on the roadside in rural areas. In addition, it also grows in fields, pits, ditches, meadows, etc. And it is widely distributed, mainly in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet and other provinces and regions.
The gold button is a very common weed in the countryside, and it especially likes to grow on the side of the road, so many people have seen it. Its stem is purple-colored, single-leaf opposite, dark green in color, and the edges of the leaves are lightly serrated, which looks very ordinary at this time.
But when it blooms, it will make people's eyes shine, which is also the most obvious place of the gold button, its top inflorescence because of the long stem, the corolla is golden yellow, looks like a button, and some people say that it looks like a chrysanthemum, golden gold, and looks very beautiful.
Listening to the older generation, in the past era of lack of materials, many people would pick the young leaves of the gold button as wild vegetables to eat, although it smelled similar to green leafy vegetables, but it tasted a spicy taste, and even a tingling feeling, and then it was slowly disliked, and few people ate it as a wild vegetable.
Because the gold button contains this unique taste, it has a good detoxification effect, so many people in the village call it "antidote weed". At the same time, it also has the effect of inhibiting tumors, and has a certain inhibitory effect on nasopharyngeal cancer, colon cancer, cervical cancer, etc.
The whole plant of gold button can be used in medicine, and can be collected throughout the year, with the effect of dispersing and detoxifying, reducing swelling and relieving pain, relieving cough and asthma, and has a certain effect on cold cough, chronic bronchitis, asthma, whooping cough, tuberculosis, malaria, diarrhea, dental caries pain, sores and boils and poison, poisonous snakebites, dog bites and other diseases.
Because the gold button has so many effects, so people who understand it are looking for it, but now due to the abuse of herbicides, as well as environmental damage, many useful herbs have ceased to exist, and this gold button is no exception, and now it is becoming rarer, so it is becoming more and more precious.
Dear friends, do you have such gold buttons in your hometown? The flower blooms like a button, and the villagers call it "antidote weed", and everyone who understands it is looking for it, and the effect is very large. If you are lucky enough to meet it in your hometown, stop getting rid of it as a weed, and pay attention to it.