Lemongrass is highly adaptable, likes a warm and moist environment, is not cold hardy, likes plenty of light, and does not require much soil. Preferred loose, fertile, well-drained sandy loam.
Lemongrass likes areas with high temperature and sufficient moisture. Lemongrass is mainly found in southern China. Lemongrass mostly grows in clumps, so wild lemongrass is usually found in groups. Lemongrass is easy to distinguish as it is about half a meter to a meter long and ranges in color from gray-green to dark green.
Lemon propagation is classified as vegetative. The planting period is from April to June and the flowering period is from August to October. Oil production is best done 3 to 4 months after planting with the first mowing. After that it is mowed every 40 to 50 days and harvested 3 to 4 times a year. Transplant after three or four years. The leaves used for conditioning are the base of the leaves.
How do I grow lemon grass?
Before planting lemongrass pot plants, you need to prepare the land. Land: lemongrass pot plants do not have strict soil requirements. General soil can be plowed, alkaline soil and sandy soil are not suitable for farming. Fear of drought, not suitable for continuous cropping. Previous harvests of grains, beans and vegetables are better.
Land preparation: turn the ground 20 cm, apply farmyard fertilizer before turning, row spacing of 40-50 cm on a ridge, or make flat beds. Because the seeds are small, the land must be carefully leveled and raked.
Lemongrass potted plants
How to grow lemongrass potted plants? There are two types of lemongrass pot plants: direct sowing and seedling transplants, and the appropriate way to sow them is by strip sowing or broadcasting. It is best to sow seeds 6-8 days before the end of the final frost in spring. In order to balance the market supply, a batch of seeds can be sown every 10-15 days. For the winter market, sowing should take place 80-90 days before the first frost. In order to produce all the seedlings at once, the sower should keep the soil moist, lightly mulch and compact.
Extended reading: lemongrass efficacy and function
Expel wind and relieve the epidermis, resolve blood stasis and clear the channels. Treatment of colds, headaches, stomach pain, diarrhea, rheumatic joint pain and bruises.
Lingnan Materia Medica Record:Dispersing and lowering wind, injuring blood stasis, and clearing collaterals. If you have a headache, wash it with water. Stir-fry lemongrass with rice, add water and decoct to stop diarrhea. Rinse your body with water to dispel wind, reduce swelling, and relieve bad odors. Extract its oil to stop abdominal pain.
Lu Chuan Materia Medica:Published to reduce fever, swelling and pain. Indications: rheumatism and bone pain, bruises, cold and body heat.
Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine:Dispelling wind and dampness, dispelling cold and dispersing cold. Treating tendon and bone pain and hemiplegia.
Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine:Treating dizziness, head wind, wind phlegm, crane's knee; boiling water can stop heartache.
Guizhou Herbal Medicine; tonifying deficiency, relieving cough, pain and tranquilizing the mind.
Use and dosage of lemongrass
Internally: decoction, 1~2 yuan; or soaked in wine. Externally: decocted in water or powdered and applied externally.
Contraindication note of lemongrass
Generally everyone can use it.
Selection of lemongrass
Treatment of generalized pain caused by wind, cold and dampness: one catty of lemongrass. Boil water to take a bath.
Treatment of joint pain: one or two slices each of lemongrass tea, shichu, and tujia. Add a little wine to deer antler, toss and heat the pain.
Treatment of heartache, stomachache and lung disease: thatched grass tea, decocted in water. Treatment of weak cough: two taels of thatched grass tea. Boil water to make tea. Guizhou folk medicine