Hello everyone, I'm nutritionist He Haizhen. The author is a native of the countryside and a lover of Chinese herbal medicine. Follow me and share with you all kinds of wild grasses common in the countryside every day to learn more about herbal medicine.
Today, the weed that I share with you looks inconspicuous in the countryside because of its extremely short growth, and it is difficult to find its existence without looking carefully. Because the shape of its leaves is similar to the small copper coins in ancient times, it was called "small money" by the ancients, and in some places it is also called small copper money grass.
Actually, its botanical name is coriander, a very nice name. There are many aliases for coriander in the folk, and the most familiar one should be the starry sky. Because it grows on the ground, the leaves are very dense, like stars in the sky, and the sky is full of stars.
People who have seen coriander know that it grows in a creeping shape, and it is a large piece when it grows, and the small leaves are densely covered on the ground, and the leaves are shaped like ancient money, so there are other names such as land money grass, paving gold, brocade everywhere, paving brocade, and landing money.
We can see coriander in rural fields, ditches, roadsides, wells, corners, grasslands, parks, etc., mainly distributed in Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Anhui, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Fujian, Tibet and other provinces and regions in the mainland.
Coriander is an excellent ground cover plant, its leaves look very tender green, and can keep evergreen in all seasons, the shape of the leaves is peculiar, it has a very high ornamental value, it is a must to make a potted plant, when its stem slowly extends it will hang down to the pot, it is particularly beautiful, and later there is such a beautiful alias as "coriander in a pot".
Although the coriander grows short, its plant is complete, not only the leaves grow small, but also the flowers are very small, in the form of an umbel-shaped inflorescence, solitary axillary, with small white flowers, if you don't look down at the appearance of its flowers, it is too small.
Although coriander looks so short, but its role is not small, its medicinal whole herb, has the effect of clearing heat and diuresis, removing phlegm and relieving cough, qi and relieving pain, for colds, pulmonary fever cough, whooping cough, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, hepatitis, conjunctivitis, stones, toothache, dysentery, sore throat, eczema and other diseases.
Coriander not only has high medicinal value, but it is also a pollution-free green type of wild vegetable, its young stems and leaves can be used to cook soup, boiled noodles, shabu-shabu, boiled eggs, etc., delicious taste, but also contains a special fragrance, so many people call it "fragrant coriander".
At the same time, coriander is also rich in nutrients, especially selenium and copper, which are incomparable to many vegetables, and the edible value is very high. Coriander has a long history of eating in mainland China, and it is still widely spread among the people today.
It is precisely because the edible value and medicinal value of Coriander are very high, it has always been very popular among the people, people who understand it will pick some back every year to make vegetables to eat, and they can also be dried and stored after eating, and they are used to make tea and drink every three or five times, which has a certain health care effect on the body.
Dear friends, is there such a coriander in your hometown? It is an inconspicuous "little money" in the countryside, and people who know it are looking for it. If you meet in your hometown, please pay attention to it in time.
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