Species name: Origanum vulgare 'Rogeukuppel'

Scientific name: Origanum vulgare 'Rogeukuppel'

Alias: 滇香蕾

Family: Labiatae Genus: Origanum

Morphological features

Evergreen persistent rooted herb, growing luxuriantly to a height of 25 cm. /p>

Morphological features

Evergreen, persistent herb, growing luxuriantly to a height of 25 cm. Leaves turn dark red in fall and winter.

Growth habit

Light-loving, barren, should be planted in well-drained places. It prefers alkaline soil and is a good ground cover plant.

Origin

Native to northern Africa and Asia, the distribution of oregano is affected by the geographical environment, Europe, northern Africa and Asia can produce a certain amount of oregano. In China, oregano is mainly distributed in north China, northwest to the south of the Yangtze River.

Medicinal value

Oregano herb contains volatile oil, mainly to a poly umbelliferin, thujaplicin, musk thujaplicin, geranium acetate, etc. can diuretic, appetite, improve digestion, phlegm, antimicrobial effect, each 1 mg contains anti-aging element superoxide dismutase 187.80 micrograms, is the highest in the vegetable content, and its antioxidant function is very strong to eliminate free radicals, must be higher than apples in terms of antioxidant effectiveness. In terms of antioxidant effectiveness, must be 42 times higher than apples, 30 times higher than potatoes, 12 times higher than oranges. Oregano is pungent, mildly warm in nature, and has the effect of clearing away summer heat and relieving water retention and swelling.

The whole grass of oregano can be extracted aromatic oil, can also be used as incense buds into medicine, but also can be used as a resource plant. As early as in the Eastern Han Dynasty, people have used oregano as a kind of Chinese herbal medicine, it can be used to treat fever, headache, body sleepiness, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and other symptoms caused by summer dampness. It is also used to treat acute gastroenteritis, salmonella infection and other diseases.

Background information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's "Phytochemistry and Phytospeciation" indicates that oregano contains more than 30 antimicrobial compounds, making it a potential non-pharmacological growth promoter. With people's concern for human health, antibiotic additives may make human pathogenic bacteria produce drug resistance this shortcoming makes people use antibiotics less and less, the use of modern high-tech production of "all-natural" feed additives has become a hot spot of the world's national researchers, and thus a deeper understanding of oregano can be used as a new non-drug The use of oregano as a new non-pharmacological growth promoter provides a reference.

Usage tips:

1. Flowers can be used to treat colds, headaches, gastrointestinal pain, nervous disorders, relieve fatigue

2. Leaf extracts are used in shampoo creams, baths

3. 3-9 grams of oregano, decocted with water or make a tea, can cure colds.

4. 250 grams of fresh oregano is decocted and bathed in water to cure hot and humid itchy skin.

5. 10 grams of oregano + 7 grams of perilla + 7 grams of loquat leaves + 3 grams of lampsbane are decocted and taken in 2 cups 3 times a day to treat fever, nose cold, cough or vomiting.

6. Decoction of cow juice is effective in rheumatoid arthritis and can also be used as a gargle for patients with gum disease.

7. Take fresh leaves or dry powder roasted sausage, poultry, beef and mutton, the flavor is particularly good.

8. Take fresh leaves to make salad, soup, cooking, can increase the flavor of the meal, promote appetite.

Alias Earth Elsholtzia [Guizhou], White-flowered Insecticide [Jiangxi, Yunnan], Five Fragrant Herbs, Summer Grass, Qixiang, Manpoxiang, Manshanxiang [Yunnan], Little Sweet Grass

Source is Origanum vulgare L., family Labiatae, and is used as medicine with the whole herb. Harvested in late summer and early fall when it blooms, the whole grass is cut up flush with the root head, or the whole grass is pulled up by the roots, shaking off the mud and sand, dried in the sun and tied into small handfuls.

The properties and flavors are pungent and warm.

Functions: Sweating and relieving symptoms, eliminating heatstroke and dampness. It is used in treating heatstroke, cold, acute gastroenteritis and abdominal pain.

Use and dosage 1 to 3 qian.

Excerpts from National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicine

Labiatae - Oregano - Origanum Linn.

Linn.sp.pl.ed.1:588.1753

Perennial herbs or semishrubs, with mostly ovate or oblong-ovate leaves, entire or remotely toothed. Often dioecious with female and bisexual flowers. Spikelets rounded-oblong, elongated or not when fruiting, densely composed of many flowers, with imbricate arrangement of bracteoles, spikelets compounded into corymbose panicles; bracts and bracteoles green or purplish red, ovate-orbicular, obovate-orbicular, oboblong-ovate-orbicular to lanceolate. Calyx campanulate, outside hairy or not, inside with ring of white pilose hairs at throat, 13-veined, jaw teeth 5, subtriangular, acute or obtuse, several equal. Corolla white or pink to purple, campanulate, corolla tube slightly protruding or very much protruding beyond calyx, limb 2-lipped, upper lip erect, flattened, apex concave, lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, middle lobe larger. Stamens 4, usually shorter than or slightly exceeding upper lip in bisexual flowers, included in female flowers, anthers ovoid, 2-celled, separated by triangular-cuneate connective, filaments glabrous. Style projecting from corolla, apex unequally 2-lobed. Disk flat-topped. Nutlets dry, ovoid, angular, glabrous.

Circa 15-20 species, mainly in the Mediterranean to C Asia. The following is a widespread species in our country. Guizhou), Elshotsholtzia earthsholtzia, Xianghuo grass, Xiangru grass, Elderwort (Sichuan), White-flowered Insecticide, Insecticide, Glutinous Rice Strip (Jiangxi), Wild Thornywort, Follower's Scripture grass (Jiangsu), Earth Insecticide (Fujian), Wild Mint, Wuxiangcao, Administrativo grass (Shaanxi), Mentha piperita (Botanical Nomenclature and Facts)

An herbaceous perennial or half-shrub, aromatic; rhizomes obliquely growing with delicate fibrous roots at the nodes, more or less woody. Stems erect or ambulatory near the base, usually 25-60 cm tall, ± purplish, quadrangular, obliquely or slightly curly pubescent, numerous, emanating from the rhizome, with flowering branches at the middle and upper nodes, sterile short branches at the lower nodes, often leafless near the base. Leaves stipitate, stipe 2-7 mm, ventral surface sulcate, abaxial surface suborbicular, pilose, leaf blade ovoid or oblong-ovoid, 1-4 cm long, 0.4-1.5 cm wide, apex obtuse or slightly obtuse, base broadly cuneate to subrounded or slightly cordate, entire or with small serrations away from the surface, bright green above, often purplish haloed, inconspicuously pilose and depressed glandular dots, light green below, conspicuously pilose and depressed glandular dots, lateral veins 3-7 mm, base cuneate to subrounded, margins cuneate to slightly cuneate. glandular dots, lateral veins 3-5 pairs, inconspicuous with midvein above, ± prominent below; bracts mostly sessile, often purplish. Inflorescence a corymbose panicle, open, many-flowered and crowded, composed of numerous oblong spikelets ± elongated in fruit; bracts oblong-obovate to obovate or oblanceolate, acute, green or purplish, ca. 5 mm, with parallel veins, entire. Calyx campanulate, coherent teeth 3 mm long, outside hirsute or subglabrous, inside with ring of white pilose hairs at throat, 13-veined, ± conspicuous, calyx teeth 5, triangular, equal, 0.5 mm long. Corolla purple-red, pale red to white, tubular-broth-shaped, 7 mm long, bisexual corolla tube 5 mm long, conspicuously exceeding calyx, while female corolla tube shorter than calyx, ca. 3 mm long, outside sparsely pubescent, inside surface sparsely pubescent at throat, limb bilabiate, upper lip erect, ovoid, 1.5 mm long, apex 2-lobed, lower lip spreading, 2 mm long, 3-lobed, middle lobe larger, lateral lobes smaller, both long Circular-ovoid. Stamens 4, in bisexual flowers, posterior pair shorter than upper lip, anterior pair slightly protruding from corolla, in female flowers, anterior and posterior pairs subequal, included, filaments filiform, flattened, glabrous, anthers ovoid, 2-loculed, bisexual flowers with triangular-cuneate connective septa dividing them, locules forked, and anther locules of staminodes in female flowers nearly parallel. Disk apical. Style slightly beyond stamens, apex unequally 2-lobed, lobes subulate. Nutlets ovoid, ca. 0.6 mm, apex rounded, base cuspidate-narrowed, slightly ridged, brown, glabrous. Fl. Jul-Sep, fr. Oct-Dec.

Produced in Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Xinjiang, and Xizang; from roadsides, slopes, forests, and grasslands; 500-3600 m. Hainan, Yunnan. It is also found in Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and has been introduced in North America.

The whole herb is used as medicine to prevent colds and flu, and to treat heat stroke, colds, headaches, diarrhea, vomiting, chest and diaphragm distension, gas obstruction, food stagnation, children's food accumulation and abdominal distension, diarrhea, excessive menstruation, leakage, itchy skin, and edema, etc., and its cold-dispersing and publishing function is especially better than peppermint. In Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces, it is used for the purchase and use of Elshotria. The whole grass and can provide aromatic oil, fresh stems and leaves containing oil 0.07-0.2%, dry stems and leaves containing oil 0.15-4%, the specific gravity of the oil (15 ℃) 0.868-0.910, the spinning luminosity (20 ℃) -20-70 ℃, the amount of alcohol (vanillin) 2-3%, the amount of phenol (musk vanillin) about 7%, in addition to for the deployment of flavors, is also used as a wine ingredient. In addition, it is a good honey plant.

For a polyphyletic species, in Europe many authors often divided into many subspecies and varieties. In terms of China's local production, the variation is also quite large, the leaves produced in Xinjiang are larger, the inflorescence is dense, the bracteoles are obovate to nearly ovate, the bracteoles produced in Gansu are extremely broad, the fruit is nearly round, crimson, the calyx produced in Fujian is nearly glabrous, and the inflorescence of some specimens produced in Hunan is obviously angular-stylar shaped, and the bracteoles produced in Taiwan and mainland China other than the above are obovate to oblong-obovate, as well as the calyx hairy, which is consistent, but often found to have the same characteristics. The two points of bracteoles obovate to oblong-obovate and calyx hairy are consistent, but dioecious hermaphroditism is often found.