Astragalus is a plant in the legume family.

The Astragalus plant itself is green, with yellow flowers and relatively flat, pinnately compound leaves. It is the rhizome of Astragalus that is generally used as a medicine, and as a herbal medicine it is brown or yellowish-brown, relatively slender, and sliced in yellow cross sections.

Astragalus is a tall perennial herb belonging to the legume family that flowers in summer and bears pods. The root is very long, usually digging more than 4 years of root, remove the ground stem and leaves and fibrous roots, dry and cut into one or two feet long collection or sliced for medicinal purposes. The astragalus harvested in the fall contains more of the trace element selenium Se, and is therefore of better quality. The stems and leaves of Astragalus are rich in nutrients and are excellent fodder for livestock, so they are more widely used.

Tips for planting Astragalus

The planting of Astragalus should be done by choosing well-drained and deep soil plots, preparing the ground before sowing, and then applying fertilizers to increase the degree of fertility, which is usually farmyard manure and phosphate fertilizer. Sowing 1 to 2 years old astragalus vigorous growth, rapid root development, can be combined with mid-tillage weeding appropriate application of phosphorus and potassium fertilizer. Seedling and rejuvenation period need more water, such as drought, should be timely irrigation.

Astragalus planting is generally sown in the spring, mid to late March is more suitable for sowing astragalus seeds, this temperature is the most suitable for astragalus seed germination. Sowing keep astragalus seedling each plant between the appropriate distance, not dense, to achieve the most appropriate distance can be. Sowing fifteen days of seeds can emerge, when the seedling height of 7 to 10 centimeters for thinning, according to 15 to 20 per centimeter spacing seedlings.