Alias red perilla and wild perilla.

Morphological characteristics of broomcorn millet. The whole plant is fragrant. The stem is square, with grooves around it, upright, multi-branched, green or red. Opposite leaves, long stalks, oval or rectangular, serrated edges, green top, purple or reddish back, branched or axillary. From September to 65438+ 10, the nutlets are obovoid, brown, reticulated and oily (Figure 28).

Fig. 28 Perilla frutescens

Growth and distribution are born on roadsides, barren slopes, river slopes and other places. This product is distributed in many areas, and some areas are also cultivated artificially.

The medicinal part is whole grass.

Harvest season: summer and autumn.

Processing, storage and drying for later use.

Function (1) Tie fresh products into small bundles and soak them in the water of mussel pond to prevent mussel blight; (2) 50-80g of dried product is used together with duckweed and Leymus chinensis, and the boiled concentrated juice is spilled in the water body of 1 m3, which can play the roles of detoxification, anti-inflammation and temperature difference prevention; ③ The human body was bitten by Monopterus albus, which was mashed with fresh products and applied externally to the wound.

Precautions: Perilla frutescens has a strong aromatic smell, and a large amount of soaking in the eel pond will affect the normal foraging of Monopterus albus.