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Toad grass, widely distributed in the fields and countryside, is a wild plant that is more common in rural areas, and likes to grow on hillsides, roadsides, river banks and other relatively humid places.
Although this plant is not as disliked as the malignant weed, its presence in people's minds is relatively low. Because this grass has evolved naturally, the leaves have evolved the appearance of toad skin-like pimples, and most importantly, this grass emits a smelly and bitter smell that even cattle and sheep hate to eat them. Therefore, for a long time, except for some people who recognized their value, mining and using them, they grew quietly in the wild.
In fact, in the eyes of Chinese medicine, this kind of toad grass that looks ugly, smells smelly and bitter, has been a very good Chinese herbal medicine since ancient times, and has a miraculous effect on the treatment of some common diseases in the case of obeying the doctor's advice. Over time, the medicinal value of toad grass has gradually spread in the folk and has become a veritable plant that "does not know is grass, know is treasure". It is called leper grass and toad grass, and there are also other names such as ground gall, white grass, frog grass, pig's ear grass, rice spoon grass, seven-star grass and so on.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > a simple way to get to know toad grass</h1>
First of all, from the morphological point of view, this grass usually grows close to the ground in our local area, just like a miniature version of the dwarf black cabbage, and there are a few that can grow to a height of about 15 to 60 cm, similar to wild mint. The leaves are opposite, often wrinkled or curled, and when the leaves are unfolded, they appear oblong or lanceolate, with circular serrated or blunt teeth at the edges of the leaves. The surface is scattered with yellow-brown glandular spots, knots, wrinkles, looks like the back of the toad, so the name of toad grass, toad grass.
Secondly, from the smell, the grass is relatively wide and thick leaves, and when you get close, you will smell a foul smell, mixed with green bitterness, which is very different from the mint taste. The smell is really flattering, especially in the summer, the smell of bitterness is very strong, and it is no wonder that the herbivores avoid them, which is also a means of self-protection.
These two remarkable characteristics of toad grass, ugly and unpleasant characteristics, coupled with their strong adaptability, hardiness and frost, are distributed in most parts of China, so it is easy to identify, and many people know them.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the use value of toad grass is not small</h1>
Don't look at the ugly smell of toad grass, in the old society living conditions are poor, green and yellow, people often dig the field of toad grass as wild vegetables to eat, coupled with the folk lang in the medical advice, people more or less know that the toad grass is cold, has the effect of clearing heat, detoxification, swelling and pain relief. Therefore, in the folk, people in some areas will treat the toad grass as an edible wild vegetable, and in the spring and autumn, they will collect some pawns and taste it as wild food.
Regarding the medicinal value of toad herb, it has long been recorded in various pharmacopoeias: it is recorded in the "Sichuan Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine" as: clear lung fever, remove rheumatism. Treat cough, dysentery, toothache and itchy rash, sore poison. In the "Drug Tu kao" recorded: cure damp heat rubella, itchy, renal cystic wind, reduce swelling and water. In the "Outline of The Collected Remains", it is recorded that the treatment of eighteen diseases of the throat, the elimination of carbuncles, bayberry, hemorrhoids. In the "Classification of Herbal Properties", it is recorded: cure all long-term fistulas, wash hemorrhoids, itchy sores.
It can be seen from the medicinal records of various pharmacopoeias about the medicinal value of toad grass that this kind of toad grass, which does not have a high sense of existence in wild grass, is actually a "treasure grass" hidden in the folk, which can benefit more people when used properly under the advice of doctors, which is much better than taking medicine and injections to see some diseases. Because this herb can be found everywhere in the folk, it is not too expensive, and Chinese herbal medicine has few side effects, and it should be well developed and utilized to benefit our compatriots and benefit mankind.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >which toad grass is collected? </h1>
If you eat toad grass as a wild vegetable, such as spreading eggs, or wrapping dumplings, it is recommended to dig in the spring or after frost. Because everything grows in the spring, toad grass is the most tender time of the year at this time, with the smallest smell and bitter taste and the best taste of fresh food.
In our local area, after the frost falls in late autumn, the most people dig up toad grass. Because the toad grass has the ability to resist frost like autumn chrysanthemum, frost killing hundred grass will not defeat the toad grass for a while and a half, you can reduce the moisture of the toad grass plant by cooling the role of frost killing, and will also greatly reduce the smell and bitterness itself, and the medicinal value of eating is better than spring.
At this time, the toad grass that grows not too old in late autumn is selected and excavated, and the water content of the plants after frost beating is small, and the medicinal properties are relatively complete. It is popular to wash it after digging, to be eaten as a wild vegetable, to dry it for later use, or to hand it over to a local herbal medicine buyer.
I'm very familiar with toad grass. Because when I was a child, I was sick once, the cough was very severe, under the advice of the doctor, I was allowed to eat various "gourmet" auxiliary treatments made of toad grass, such as wrapping chaotic dumplings with toad grass, spreading eggs with sugar, bubble water, and even frying, etc. My mother went to the fields in the autumn to look for toad grass, various methods let me eat, and after eating for a while, I was cured, and the bitter taste of that kind of bitter taste is still unforgettable to me.
Because the medicinal value of toad grass is higher than that of ordinary wild vegetables, it cannot be eaten as an ordinary wild vegetable. As the old saying goes, "it is a three-point poison of medicine", so some people such as weak and pregnant women are not suitable for consumption. Medical doctors must abide by the doctor's instructions and cannot be used privately!