Wild pueraria lobata pictures
What is pueraria lobata?
Pueraria lobata is the root of pueraria lobata or pueraria lobata in Leguminosae. The taste is cool, sweet and pungent, and it belongs to spleen, stomach and lung meridians. Has the effects of relaxing muscles and tendons, relieving fever, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, strengthening yang, relieving diarrhea, dredging channels and collaterals, and relieving alcoholism.
Pueraria lobata is used for exogenous fever, headache, neck pain, thirst, thirst, diarrhea, and stomach damage caused by excessive drinking.
Appearance of wild kudzu vine and its leaves (Figure)
What does wild pueraria look like?
Pueraria lobata and sweet potato are very similar, and the surface is covered with vines. Starch storage in underground tubers plays a very important role in protecting tubers.
Pueraria lobata is generally large in size, because it is not dug every year, and the wild one usually makes it grow for several years, so it is big and long. Moreover, pueraria lobata is softer than sweet potato, and the washed pueraria lobata is easy to split into pieces. Get to know each part.
Pueraria lobata leaf shape
Ge Ye is oval, round and green, with a length of 8-15cm and a width of 5-12cm, and a sharp tip. Its small lateral leaves are obliquely oval, and its petiole has yellow fluff.
In addition, the leaves of Pueraria lobata are pinnately compound, with trifoliate leaflets and tapered front ends. Its leaves can be as long as 19cm and as wide as 18cm, with a hint of light yellow in green.
Appearance of pueraria lobata
Wild pueraria lobata blooms in September-65438+1October, and bears fruit in June-1-65438+February, with small white flowers. Its raceme is axillary, and its peduncle is densely covered with yellow-white fluff.
Generally, pueraria lobata has dense flowers, narrow bracts, caducous, and linear lanceolate bracts.
The appearance of kudzu vine
Pueraria lobata is a perennial vine with a length of 10 m. It has long branches, all of which are tawny coarse hairs. Its rhizome is very thick, much like radish.
So when you dig in the wild, you usually see roots as thick as radishes.
On the origin of pueraria lobata
There are many interesting legends about the origin of pueraria lobata, and Xiao Gu chose one of them to tell you.
According to legend, in ancient times, there was an official named Ge who was framed by a traitor for being an honest official and killed all over the house, leaving only his youngest son to escape and become the only blood of the Ge family.
Mr. Ge's youngest son was later rescued by an old drug farmer in the mountains. He learned the skill of saving the world from the old drug farmer and knew how to identify medicinal materials.
He made good use of a white, fat and strong grass root as medicine and cured many patients. Whether exogenous fever persists, damp-heat diarrhea persists, or body fluid hurts thirst, it can be cured with this grass root.
People ask what this grass root is called. Ge Jia's youngest son couldn't help thinking of the kindness of the old drug farmer and his own life experience, because the old man left a "root" for Ge Jia. So he casually said the name of this herb: pueraria lobata.