Chinese artichoke

Alias: manna seed, dripping dew, ground silkworm, manna seed, Polygonum multiflorum Thunb., Potamogeton, snail, Cordyceps sinensis, talinum, Osmunda japonica Thunb., Saussurea medusa Thunb., Hyacinthus japonicus Thunb., Cynanchum japonicum Thunb. and Spirogyranthes japonica Thunb.

Family and genus: Stachys of Labiatae.

Flowering and fruiting period: Flowering period is July to August, and fruiting period is September.

Morphological characteristics: perennial herbs. Rhizomes are creeping, with dense fibrous roots on them and small transverse rhizomes with spherical hypertrophy tubers at the top; The stem is 30- 120m high, with bristles on the edges and nodes. Leaves opposite; Petiole length1-3 cm; The leaf blade is ovate or oblong-ovate, 3- 12cm long and 1.5-6cm wide, with a slightly acute or tapering apex, a shallow heart-shaped base, regular crenate serrations at the edges, and short bristles attached to both sides; The cymes are usually 6-flowered, and most of them grow 5- 15cm away from each other, with terminal pseudospikes; Xiao Xun is strip-shaped and puberulent; Calyx narrowly bell-shaped, with teeth about 9mm long, covered with glandular hairs, 10 veins, teeth 5, triangular, spiny-pointed; Corolla pink to purplish red, about 1.2cm long, with hairy rings in the tube, upright upper lip, 3-lobed lower lip and nearly round middle lobe. Nutlets are ovoid, dark brown and tuberculate.

Properties: sweet taste, flat nature. It can nourish yin and moisten lung.

Reference: Hydrochloric acid, stachyose, protein, amino acids, fat, fenugreek and other ingredients.

Usage: used for deficiency of lung yin, less dry expectoration, or cough due to fatigue.

Usage: decoction, steaming or cooking, etc.

Attachment: ground silkworm pig lung soup: pig lung 1 utensil, washed and cut into pieces, grass silkworm 120g, stewed together with water, slightly seasoned with pig fat and salt. This prescription directly supplements the lung with pig lung, which enhances the efficacy of Stachys sieboldii. Used for cough due to lung deficiency and dry throat.