Ash lettuce (scientific name: Chenopodium album L.) for the quinoa family quinoa plants. It is also known as pink cabbage, gray stripes, gray grey cabbage, gray Sambucus, white quinoa, waterlogged quinoa, waterlogged rushes, drop quinoa, salt lettuce, etc. It is an annual herbaceous plant that grows in the field, wasteland, grassland, roadside and near the residence, and is commonly grown all over China. Seedlings or young stems and leaves are harvested from April to July each year for food. Collection of young stems and leaves, into the boiling water pot blanch to wash away the bitter taste, can be cold, stir-fried into a variety of dishes. The whole herb can be used as medicine, sweet, flat, slightly poisonous. Ashwagandha, with the whole grass for food or medicine. Picked in summer, cut and dried or fresh.
Latin name: Chenopodium album L. Alias: powdered cabbage, gray striped lei, gray ashwagandha, gray javanica, white quinoa, waterlogged quinoa or waterlogged rushes, drop quinoa, salt lettuce, angiosperm phylum.
? ~Morphological features:
Annual herb, 30-150 cm tall. Stem erect, stout, with stripes and green or purplish-red color stripes, much branched; branches obliquely ascending or spreading. Leaf blade rhombic-ovate to broadly lanceolate, 3-6 cm long, 2.5-5 cm wide, apex acute or subobtuse, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, usually without powder above, sometimes with purplish-red powder above and more or less below young leaves, margins irregularly serrate; petiole subequal to leaf blade or 1/2 as long as leaf blade; flowers bisexual, clusters of flowers arranged in large or small spikelike panicles or paniculate inflorescences above the branches; perianth lobes 5,5 mm, with a few lateral veins. Perianth lobes 5, broadly ovate to elliptic, abaxially with longitudinal ridges, powdery, apex or retuse, margin membranous; stamens 5, anthers projecting from perianth, stigmas 2. Pericarp adnate to seed. Seeds transverse, biconvex lenticular, 1.2-1.5 mm in diam., margin obtuse, black, glossy, surface shallowly furrowed; embryo ringlike. Flowering and fruiting May-October.
? ~ ashwagandha growing environment:
Ashwagandha is a kind of vitality strong plant, growing in the field, ground, slope, ditch, and even the city of the backwoods of the secluded fall, everywhere you can see their dense clumps of swaying figure.
? ~Distribution:
Distributed throughout the temperate and tropical regions of the world, produced throughout China. Born on roadsides, wasteland and fields, it is a very difficult weed to get rid of.
This species is widely distributed, the morphology varies greatly, and there are a lot of published names under the species rank, which is quite confusing.
? ~Propagation:
Propagation by seed.
? ~Land Selection:
Gray striped cabbage is adaptable, not strict on the soil requirements, in the field, the edge of the ground, the mountains, mudflats, roadside, in front of the house, the gap in the field can grow, and in the fertile head of the field growth will be more vigorous. In the deciduous tree orchards, especially in the pear orchard, as long as there is 60 d of time can be intercropping.
? ~ Sowing:
After selecting the field, ploughing, leveling, harrowing, vegetable-based green manure as a supplement to the harvesting method of the bottom fertilizer, per 667 m2 to apply people miscellaneous fertilizer 2 000-3 000 kg or high-quality organic fertilizer 1 000-2 000 kg. large areas of green manure-based harvesting can not be applied to the bottom fertilizer. At the end of October - early December, you can take the direct seeding method, with the method of sowing or strip sowing. Sowing should be spread evenly, after spreading, lightly embrace the surface layer of soil, and step on the solid, or use a wooden board to suppress, so that the seed and soil close contact. The row spacing of furrow sowing is 20 cm, after sowing, cover with miscellaneous fertilizer or mulch, in case of drought, drench 1 time water. 5-7d can sprout growth. Can also be in early October - December are seedlings, leveling the seedbed, full base fertilizer. Each m2 seeding 0.5 ~ 1 g. Seedling height 8-10 cm, 3, 4 true leaves, can be transplanted. Transplanting row spacing 20 cm x 30 cm, can 667m2 plant 5500-6500 plants.
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? ~ Inter-seedling:
After the emergence of seedlings should be timely inter-seedling, to ensure that there is no crowding. The inter-seedlings with 5 or 6 true leaves can be harvested and marketed.
? ~Fertilizer management:
After each inter-seedling or picking young seedlings, you can apply 20%-30% rotted organic fertilizer (manure or marsh liquid, vegetable bran water) per 667 m2500 kg-1000 kg, or urea 10kg to water pouring.
? ~Pest control:
Gray striped vegetables strong resistance to disease, generally no pests and diseases. If powdery mildew occurs, 40% sulfur suspension emulsion 500 times liquid or 150-200 times liquid baking soda can be sprayed to prevent and control.
? ~Harvest:
Gray striped vegetables to tender seedlings to use, generally reached 10 true leaves, plant height 15 cm, you can harvest all the market. Vegetable fertilizer used for the first harvest is to stay 5, 6 leaf centering 4 ~ 5 young leaves on the market, in the temperature is suitable, sufficient fertilizer, 15 ~ 20 d after the branch right to pick the new shoots of young leaves. It can be harvested in batches several times.
? ~Pharmacological effects:
Ashwagandha herb can be used as medicine to stop diarrhea and dysentery, relieve itching, poisonous insect bites, clear heat and dampness, detoxification. Its raw leaves can be used to kill insects, dried leaves and stems decoction, can cure stroke, or stop toothache, the fruit can eliminate swelling.
? ~Nutritional value:
Ashwagandha seedlings and young stems and leaves are edible, flavorful, tender, nutritious. Ashwagandha is sweet and flat in nature, clearing heat, promoting dampness, lowering blood pressure, relieving pain, killing insects and stopping diarrhea. Ash greens young stems and leaves contain protein, fat, sugar, especially its rich carotene and vitamin C helps to enhance the body's immune function. With the wild chrysanthemum decoction external wash, the treatment of skin dampness and itching around the body.
? ~Side effects:
The plant contains a small amount of carboline substances harmful to the human body, but if more food or long-term consumption can cause photoallergy or skin limbs itchy, rash. Therefore, you should try to avoid prolonged and strong sunlight after consuming ashwagandha.
? ~Use:
Mainly used for wind-heat colds, dysentery, diarrhea, caries pain; external treatment of skin itching, measles impermeable. Dosage 50~100 grams. External use of appropriate amount of decoction to wash the affected area or mashed and steamed hot with a cloth bag, external roll chest and back, hands and feet heart, in order to penetrate the rash. Seedling feeding livestock, can also do wild vegetables to eat, seeds can be extracted oil.
Note: After taking this product, exposure to strong sunlight can cause solar dermatitis.
~ Efficacy:
Sweet in nature, flat. There is a small poison.
The efficacy of the action of clearing heat and dampness, branches and leaves through the rash. Used for wind-heat colds, dysentery, diarrhea, caries pain; external treatment of skin itching, measles impermeable.
Usage and dosage 1 to 2 taels. Appropriate amount for external use, decoction and wash the affected area; or mashed and steamed hot with a cloth bag, external roll chest and back, hands and feet, in order to penetrate the rash.
Remarks
①After taking ashwagandha, avoid exposure to strong sunlight, otherwise it will cause solar dermatitis.
② small quinoa (gray amaranth) Chenopodium serotinum L., similar to the above species, and its whole herb is also used as ashwagandha medicine.
Excerpts from the National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicine
? ~ Seed harvesting:
The row spacing of the plant in the field of seed retention is 30-40 cm, without harvesting stems and leaves, appropriate application of phosphorus and potassium fertilizer. In May to June when the seeds mature in time to harvest in batches, gray striped vegetables long flowering, seed maturity is not concentrated, with a dustpan or plastic film laid next to the plants, patting and shaking shocked off the collection of seeds, drying and threshing, preservation. In the pear orchard interplanting to green manure-based, you can take a natural ecological approach, every 4, 5 m in order not to interfere with the orchard production operation as the principle of leaving a plant without pressure green let it grow, the seeds naturally scattered everywhere. To the fall and winter temperatures are suitable, rain will sprout and grow on its own. A planting for many years.
? ~Food Nutrients:
Food Name Content Reference Energy Protein Fat Saturated Fatty Acids Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Monounsaturated Fatty Acids Carbohydrates Dietary Fiber Folic Acid Sodium Magnesium Phosphorus Potassium Calcium Iron Zinc Vitamin A Vitamin B1 (Thiamin) Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) Nicotinic Acid (Niacinamide) Vitamin B6 Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid)
Ashwagandha Approximate content per 100 grams of food 43 kcal 4.0%. Content per 100 g of food 43 kcal 4.2 g 0.8 g 0.1 g 0.2 g 0.4 g 7.3 g 4 g 30 μg 43 mg 34 mg 72 mg 452 mg 309 mg 1.2 mg 0.44 mg 580 μg 0.16 mg 0.44 mg 1.2 mg 0.27 mg 80 mg
? ~Speciesology Non-famous naturalist:
Ashwagandha - pig food in the countryside, "new favorite" in the city
In the folklore, there is a saying, some people say that consuming too much ashwagandha at one time, or consuming ashwagandha for a long period of time, will result in food poisoning. will cause food poisoning. In fact, this statement is not rigorous, excessive consumption of gray cabbage is indeed not beneficial to health. However, those who consume ashwagandha suffer from edema, which is not food poisoning. However, although it is not food poisoning, but the edema will still cause physical discomfort to the consumer.
Through the ancient times, to see the ancient people eat gray vegetables?
Trapped in the wilderness of the Confucius crowd, with all the food eaten up, had to pick in the deserted mountains looking for wild vegetables, in order to satiate the stomach. In these wild vegetables, accounting for the largest proportion of the "quinoa", that is, we are today's gray vegetables. The "soup of quinoa and patchouli" refers to the soup that Confucius made with gray vegetables.
In the vast expanse of China, there is a kind of grass that grows in the fields and various places, can take root and sprout, he is also a kind of wild vegetables we can see on the table, and its nutritional value is not less than that of ordinary vegetables. It is also a wild vegetable that we can see on the table, and its nutritional value is no less than that of ordinary vegetables. The old ancestors called it "quinoa". We gave him a cute name "gray striped vegetables", some people call it even more cute, called him "gray grey vegetables"! ...