Since I learned painting, my grades have been poor, and my interest in observing things has been raised. When I meet unknown wild flowers and weeds, I will take pictures and save them. When I have time and interest, I will sketch or something.

I went out for a walk this morning and found some weeds on the roadside. The stem is red and the leaves are palmately shaped. I have never paid attention to them before, but I have never seen them in my mind. Take a picture of it. I often walk on this road. Maybe it knows me, but I don't know it. Because I am not at the same height as it. I can't see until I look down.

Baidu took a look at this photo, and it turned out that its name was geranium. Alias geranium.

The name of geranium was first seen in Mao Lan's Materia Medica of Southern Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty: "Five-leaf clover is good in Kyoto, and it is called Laoguancao. Weihui, Henan, is also a geranium in Liuyang grass. Born in the north, with hard branches and thin leaves; Those produced in the south have soft branches and seedlings ... geraniums in the north have bird-like flowers, hence the name geranium. "

Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan also records the efficacy and indications of geranium: "Five-leaf clover tastes bitter and warm. Expelling wind, relieving itching, dredging the twelve meridians, treating pain in bones and muscles, flaccidity of phlegm-fire, numbness of hands and feet, diuresis, bladder fever and diarrhea, removing sore and toxic roots, relieving fatigue and heat, treating toothache caused by wind-fire, scabies and sores. " He also said: "Liuyang grass is pungent, bitter and warm. Entering the liver and dredging collaterals. Treat hemiplegia, muscle pain, hand and foot trembling, flaccidity and weakness. This grass is mainly used for various low back pain, abdominal pain and cold pain. "

Pharmacological research also shows that Geranium geranium has good bacteriostatic effect, and has obvious inhibitory effect on catarrhalis, Staphylococcus aureus, Shigella flexneri, β -streptococcus and pneumococcus, and contains tannic acid, so it has astringent and antidiarrheal effects.

Now the grass has not blossomed, and the flowers found by Baidu are purple-blue, with five petals and six petals, and the florets are quite beautiful. A bud is like a bird's beak.

Since this grass has so many medicinal functions, I'll see if I can pick some and dry them for soaking my feet.