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 shared by the author, it is flooded in the countryside, it is a particularly annoying weed, it can be said that everyone is disgusted, but it has its unique value and use, I don't know that it is a precious "rheumatic grass", which is very useful in life.
This kind of wild grass known as "rheumatism" has a very interesting name called fat pigweed in the folk, because in the past when every household raised pigs, it was the pig dish that pigs often ate, and pigs ate it to grow fat and strong, so it was called "fat pigweed".
In fact, its botanical name is Pigweed. Because the plant contains a spicy smell, like the smell of pigs, and in the past "pigs" were also called "pigs", which is how the pigweed got its name. In addition, sticky grass, fat pig seedlings, sticky sticky, sow fat, sticky litagogue, pig paste grass, etc. are its aliases.
Speaking of the weed, the author is also extremely disgusted with it, because its flowers are sticky, when I was a child, there were always some naughty partners to pick its flowers and throw them on my hair for fun, to remove the flowers from the hair is also very troublesome, I think many people also played with it when they were young.
It is an annual herbaceous plant of the Asteraceae family, which can be found in villages, fields, roadsides, wastelands, lawns, river valleys, streams, forest edges, hillsides, etc., and is widely distributed, mainly distributed in Yunnan, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Fujian, Hunan and other provinces and regions in the mainland.
The stems of the stalk are erect, often purple, about 50 cm high, the leaves are opposite, triangular-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, the apex is acute, the edges are irregularly serrate, the top is green, the back is pale green, and there are hairs on both sides, which are soft to the touch.
There are many capitate inflorescences of the sage, there are apical and axillary, and then the apical panicle is integrated, the inflorescence is yellow, the total bract is broad, and there are many pubescence on the peduncle, and it will secrete mucus, which will be firmly stuck on clothes or hair, which is also one of the reasons why the sagebrush is hated.
In addition, the smell of pigweed is also very stinky, and it smells like pigs. Although the pigweed stinks, but the pig is particularly fond of eating, and the nutrients are rich, the pig grows fat and fast after eating, and the people call it "fat pigweed" is not in vain.
Every kind of wild grass that grows in the countryside has its unique value, and the weeds are no exception, its value is very high, and the whole herb can be used as medicine, with the effect of dispelling rheumatism, benefiting joints, detoxification, rheumatism, muscle and bone weakness, waist and knee soreness, limb paralysis, hemiplegia, rubella and eczema and other diseases.
Because it has a certain curative effect on rheumatic diseases, it is called "rheumatic grass" by many older generations, and its value is very precious. I didn't expect this often annoying pigweed to have so many effects, but unfortunately many people don't know it.
Dear friends, do you have this kind of pigweed in your hometown? It is a plant that everyone hates, and it is so popular in the countryside that it is a precious "rheumatic grass." Tell your parents at home that if you meet them in your hometown, don't get rid of them as weeds.
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