When I came to Lao Hu's home and saw an elegant and beautiful shape placed indoors, red beads full of trees, elegant and small potted plants, I couldn't help but go forward and carefully observe. I found this plant, an evergreen semi-shrub, about 50-120 cm tall, with swollen nodes on both the stem and the branches. The leaves are leathery, oval, ovate to ovate lanceolate, 6–17 cm long and 2–6 cm wide, tapering at the apex, pointed or wedge-shaped at the base, with coarsely sharp serrated edges, a glandular tip at the tip, and hairless on both sides; petiole 0.5–1.5 cm long, sheathed at the base; Spike-like inflorescence apical, usually branched, with a total peduncle length of 1.5–4 cm; bracts triangular; flowers yellow-green; 1 stamen, fleshy, rod-shaped to cylindrical, anther 2 chambers, born on both sides of the upper part of the septum, laterally or sometimes introverted; The ovary is spherical or ovate, without a peduncle, and the stigma is near-head-shaped. The drupes are spherical, 3–4 mm in diameter, bright red when ripe.
Old nonsense said that this is grass coral, for the golden millet orchid family perennial evergreen subshrub, its alias is also called; swollen knot wind, nine knot orchid, knot bone tea, elder gold millet orchid grass, elder bone tea, nine section tea, manshan incense, Guanyin tea, nine knots of flowers, elderberry and so on. Its beautiful form and fragrant fragrance have high medicinal, edible and ornamental value.
Wild grass corals often grow at altitudes of 400-1500 m on hillsides and valleys under the shade and dampness of evergreen broad-leaved forests. Suitable for warm and humid climate, prefer cool environment, avoid strong direct light and high temperature drying. It prefers deep, loose and fertile, slightly acidic sandy loam soils with deep humus layers, and avoids lean, compacted, and water-rich clay soils.
If you want to make grass corals into bonsai and use cuttings to propagate, you should cut cuttings in March to April, you must choose some relatively healthy 1 to 2 years old branches to spare, and you can cut cuttings when they grow to 10 to 15 cm. If you divide the plants, it is recommended to breed them in the early spring when changing pots. Grass coral is a perennial evergreen sub-shrub, so in the spring and summer, the greenery and flowers are continuous, giving people a pleasing natural beauty, but in autumn and winter, grass corals usher in red pearls full of trees, auspicious and rich. Grass coral has strong adaptability, which can not only make elegant and small potted plants, placed indoor ornamentation, but also can be used for green decoration of gardens and courtyards.
I didn't wait for Lao Hu to finish speaking, I suddenly wanted to draft coral lozenges, which are suitable for the swelling of the throat caused by external wind and heat, and the voice is hoarse; Acute laryngitis is a lozenge agent used by people with rheumatism. A long time ago, whenever I got the grass coral lozenge and saw the instruction manual on it, I always looked confused. Obviously, it is a grass coral lozenge, but its main ingredient is written with swollen knots, honeysuckle, menthol, and there is no trace of grass coral but it is named grass coral lozenge.
Today, in the chat of the old Hu family, I learned that the original swollen knot wind is grass coral. The whole plant of the old nonsense grass coral can be used for medicinal purposes, and has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, dispelling wind and invigorating blood, reducing swelling and pain, and antibacterial and anti-inflammatory. It can treat influenza, Japanese encephalitis, pneumonia, appendicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, bruises, rheumatic joint pain, amenorrhea, wound infections, dysentery, etc. It is also used to treat pancreatic cancer, stomach cancer, rectal cancer, liver cancer, esophageal cancer and other malignant tumors, which has the effect of relieving, reducing the mass, prolonging life, improving conscious symptoms, etc., without side effects.
Dosage: take internally, decoct, 9-15 grams or soak in wine. For external use: Mash with an appropriate amount of grass coral, apply the end of the grind, or wash with decoction water.
Folk convenience;
Use 15 grams of grass coral, 6 grams of windproof, 3 grams of sand antler velvet grass, add an appropriate amount of white sugar to make 5 ml of syrup, for one amount. Take once a day for 3 days. In times of cold epidemic, it can be used to prevent colds.
Treatment of various inflammatory diseases such as pneumonia, acute appendicitis, acute gastroenteritis, bacterial dysentery, abscesses, etc. Usually oral decoction is used, 60 grams of grass coral per day, divided 3 times a day.
Treatment of bruises, fractures, rheumatoid arthritis: it is possible to mash the affected area with fresh grass corals, sauté with wine, or with 15 to 30 grams of roots, soaked in wine.
Treatment of low back pain: grass coral, four tiles, 15 grams of blood relegation grass, simmered wine.
Treatment of stomach pain: it can be taken with 15 grams of grass coral, decoction in water.
Treatment of traumatic bleeding: fresh grass corals can be used to mash the affected area.
Some people's wounds are not treated in time and ulcers occur: they can be washed directly with fresh grass coral stems and leaves, and decoction water.
Treatment of soup, fire wounds: you can mix the dried leaves of grass coral, grind one part, and mix two parts of tea oil and apply it to the outside.
Precautions;
Yin deficiency fire and pregnant women should not take.
At the end, Lao Hu also told me that in the summer, if you can make the leaves of grass corals into herbal tea, it is very delicious! The stubbing wine made of grass coral tastes very good, especially delicious, with a strong medicinal aroma.
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