What does buckwheat look like?

Buckwheat is a dicotyledonous plant, is with the Chinese medicinal herbs He Shouwu, Dazhong belongs to the Polygonaceae "medicine and food", plants. Folk called buckwheat as "earth tetracycline", "earth panax pseudoginseng tablets", has a heat detoxification, the role of fire. Buckwheat annual grasses. Stem erect, soft; leaf broad dry type, the basal leaves open; racemes, perianth green or yellow; achenes, rhombus obtuse. Buckwheat products are mostly yellow-green color.

What are the main effects of buckwheat?

According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: buckwheat taste bitter, cold, cold, solid stomach and intestines, beneficial to the energy, renewing the spirit, ears and eyes, refining the five viscera dregs of filth;

In the "Thousand Golden Essentials", "Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine," and other related literature on buckwheat are recorded: can be tranquilized, living blood, descending qi and wide bowel, clearing the heat, swelling and wind pain, to remove the accumulation of stagnation, intestinal purification, laxative, laxative, antipyretic, asthmatic, anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, cardiovascular, Weight loss, beauty and other effects.