Who can drink crab feet tea?
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Taste: slightly bitter, flat in nature.
Function: expelling wind and promoting diuresis, relaxing muscles and tendons, activating blood circulation and stopping bleeding.
Indications: rheumatic joint pain, lumbago and leg pain; Rheumatalgia, strain cough, dysentery, postpartum blood gas pain, nosebleed, dysuria.
Who can't drink crab feet tea?
But at the same time, it is also a cool ingredient.
Friends with cold feet, stomach and wet constitution are not suitable for drinking.
morphological character
Shrub, 0.5-0.7 meters high, with nearly cylindrical stem base and flat branches and branchlets; Branches are cruciform or bifurcated, with internodes 2-4 cm long and 4-6(-8) mm wide, with thick edges and 5-7 longitudinal edges. The leaves degenerated into scales.
Cymes, 1-3 axillary, with few total pedicels, boat-shaped involucre, 1.5-2 mm long, with 3- 1 flower, usually only one female or male flower, or one female flower in the center and one male flower on the side; Male flower: the bud is nearly spherical, about 65438±0mm long, with 4 sepals; Anthers are round and adnate to the lower part of sepals; Female flower: the bud is oval, 2-2.5 mm long, the receptacle is oval, and the length is 1.5-2 mm, with or without cup-shaped bracts at the base; Sepals 4, triangular, 0.5 mm long; Stigma papillary.
The fruit is oval, 5-7 mm long, about 4 mm in diameter, sometimes ovoid, 6 mm long and about 5 mm in diameter, orange-red or yellow at maturity, smooth peel, and the flowering and fruiting period is 4-65438+February.
Medicinal value
The whole plant is used as medicine, which has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, expelling wind and removing dampness. Indications: rheumatism joint pain, lumbar muscle strain, especially Liquidambar formosana parasitism; This species is used to treat acute cystitis in Simao, Yunnan.