Category: antipyretics
Pinyin: Hua
Latin: China has seven leaves and one flower.
Alias: Paris, Paris, Jinpanto Litchi, Caoheche
Medicinal part: rhizome
Characteristics of medicinal materials: It is a perennial herb of Liliaceae, and its rhizome is used as medicine, which has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, reducing swelling and relieving pain. Because of the good curative effect, there is a drug proverb circulating in the mountainous areas of Zhejiang Province, which is called "seven leaves and one flower, and the nameless swollen poison is caught at once". Folk medicine is mostly used to treat unknown swelling and poisonous snake bites. In Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica, there is also a folk proverb: "Seven leaves and one flower, the deep mountain is my home, if you meet me, you can take it at your fingertips." This shows its curative effect.
Cultivation points: I like cool and humid environment. Suitable for planting in fertile sandy loam or humus loam. Reproduce with seeds and rhizomes. Seed propagation, September, June, 65438+1October. When the seeds are mature, they are sown along with picking, drilling or sowing, and covered with soil for 4-5 minutes. Cultivation for 2 ~ 3 years or transplanting in late autumn. Rhizome propagation is to cut 3 ~ 5 nodes at the top of buds, ditches and plants with a row spacing of 8*4 inches. Weed, loosen soil and water in time during growth. Topdressing can be carried out after emergence in the second spring, with nitrogen fertilizer and phosphorus fertilizer as the main fertilizer.
Origin: Mainly distributed in Jiangxi, Guangdong, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet and other provinces.
Harvest and processing: Wild products are mined in summer and autumn. Plant for 3 ~ 5 years, and harvest the cultivated plants after the overground parts wither in late autumn. Wash, slice and dry.
True evolution:
Taste: bitter, slightly cold. A little poisonous. Enter the liver meridian.
Indications: clearing away heat and toxic materials and reducing swelling.