Cucumber Fragrance (Podocarpus fern)

IntroductionAlias podocarpus fern, Guangdong vegetable, for the bulbous fern family perennial herbaceous plant seedling period rolled young stems and leaves. Distributed in Changbai Mountain counties, like to grow in the mixed coniferous and broad forests, bushes and shallow mountain riverside wetlands. The plant is about 1 meter high, with an erect rhizome and clustered leaves, with two types of nutritive and sporophytic leaves. Spring buds clustered, after the emergence of young leaves curled at the tip, petiole concave, born with many symmetrical small leaves, tender young buds exudes an attractive cucumber fragrance, so called cucumber incense, is the spring mountain vegetables. It can be used for cold, fried, choked, boiled, dried, salted, etc., such as "stir-fried cucumber", "choked cucumber", "wooden beard cucumber" and so on. Fresh cucumber flavor, rich in protein, fat, carbohydrates and a variety of vitamins, is a famous mountain vegetables, not only high nutritional value, and therapeutic effects, with heat, slippery bowel, lowering the gas, drive the wind, benefit the gas and tranquility, phlegm and other functions. Its roots and rhizomes contain Ponasterone A, ecdysterone, pterostilbene and sheep horse essence, can be used as "Guanzhong" into medicine, has a heat detoxification, cool the blood to stop bleeding, the efficacy of insect repellent.

Transverse section of the petiole base: 2 divided columns, arranged in a figure of eight; endothelial layer is obvious; xylem is folded at both ends in a curved hook shape; surrounded by phloem. Brownish-brown secretory cells are visible around the vascular bundles.

The Chinese medicine is bitter in flavor and cool in nature. It clears heat and removes toxins, cools blood, stops bleeding, and kills worms.

Mongkok is slightly sweet and bitter in flavor, cool, blunt and heavy in nature. It clears heat, detoxifies and heals wounds.