The difference between the grasshopper and poppy
The difference between poppy and grasshopper is that the two have different appearances, the two have different roles, and the two have different geographic distributions.
1, the appearance of the two are different:
Poppy stems 30-80 centimeters high, branched, with stretching strigose. Leaves alternate, pinnately parted, lobes lanceolate or striped lanceolate, both surfaces with hispid. Flower buds ovoid, long pedicellate, pendulous when unopened; sepals green.
Leaf blade long elliptic or oblong, 40-70 centimeters long, 10-20 centimeters wide, acuminate at the tip, attenuate at the base, scarious at the margins, smooth and glabrous on both surfaces, sessile or short-stalked, ligule entire, obtuse-rounded at the tip, 0.8-1.2 centimeters long.
Spikes unbranched, 13-18 cm long, about 5 cm wide, with about 5-30 flowers per inflorescence; the common pedicel is 10 cm long or longer, densely scaly, the scales oblong or long elliptic, 5.5-7 cm long, 2.3-3.5 cm wide, rounded at the tip, leathery, brown when dry.
2, the two have different roles:
Poppy is the main raw material for opium production, while its extract is also a source of a variety of sedatives, poppy seeds are an important food product, which contains healthy fats and oils, and is widely used in salads around the world.
Grass berries are used to cook dishes, can be deodorized to remove the stink, enhance the flavor of the dishes, cooking fish and meat, with the grass berries its flavor is better. Stewed beef and mutton, put some fruits of grass, both beef and mutton flavorful and delicious, but also to remove the stink of beef and mutton.
3, the two geographically different:
Poppy native to southern Europe, India, Myanmar, Laos and northern Thailand are cultivated, many areas of China's drug research units are cultivated.
Grasshopper is distributed in China produced in Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou and other provinces and regions.
Efficacy and effect of grass jelly
Dampness and cold, expectorant and interception of malaria, strengthening the spleen and stomach, diuresis and swelling. Cao Guo is a perennial herb of the ginger family, Cardamom genus, stems tufted, distributed in Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou and other provinces and regions of China, Cao Guo is the mature fruit of the perennial herbaceous plant Cao Guo of the ginger family, mainly produced in Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou and other places in the fall when the fruit begins to ripen, the fruit becomes reddish-brown, and has not yet cracked the time of harvesting, drying in the sun or drying. Sexual flavor: pungent, warm, non-toxic. Attributed to the spleen meridian, stomach meridian, function: drying dampness and removing cold, expelling phlegm and intercepting malaria, strengthening the spleen and opening the stomach, inducing diuresis and eliminating swelling. Grass Fruit has a strong pungent flavor, is warm and dry in nature, and belongs to the spleen and stomach meridians. It has the effects of drying dampness, warming the middle and stopping malaria. Where cold and dampness in the spleen and stomach appear in the epigastric cold pain, distension, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, can be treated with grasshopper. At the same time, grass fruit also has the effect of treating cold-damp type of malaria. The Compendium of Materia Medica states that "Cao Guo warms the spleen and stomach, stops vomiting, benefits the true qi, eliminates all cold qi swellings, and also eliminates dormant food, and removes the toxins of alcohol." The common dosage is 3-6g.
Cao Guo's role in seasoning
Cao Guo as a seasoning in the dishes eaten, is to play a role in removing the stink, but also can enhance the flavor of the dishes. In general in order to make the flavor of beef and mutton better, you can also put some grass fruit, both can make the beef and mutton more fragrant and delicious, but also get rid of the stink of beef and mutton itself.
Cao Guo dosage
Cao Guo is pungent, warm, dry and strong, and is a special agent for dampness and openness. Where dampness obstructs the spleen and stomach, or dampness is trapped in the evidence of the middle jiao, non-cao fruits.
The dosage of Cao Guo is 6~10 grams for adults and 3~6 grams for children.
The treatment of dampness obstructing the spleen and stomach, with betel nut, thick Park, half-summer 6~10 grams each, Hovenia 3~10 grams. For the treatment of dampness obstructing the middle Jiao, with Huo Xiang 10~15 grams, thick Park, 6~10 grams each of abdominal skin. For malaria, 3~6 grams each of Citrus aurantium, Pinellia ternata, and fried Changshan.