Safflower and Xiancao are two common plants used by Chaoshan people to ward off evil spirits and watch them. Safflower is pomegranate flower, which not only means that the flower is red, but the whole pomegranate tree or its leafy shoots are called "safflower", and the scientific name of Cao Xian is clover. Safflower and Cao Xian are often used together and basically appear together.
White clover is a vine with a height of 3 meters. Stems erect, stout and branchlets pilose. Leaf blade ovoid-elliptic or ovoid-lanceolate, length 1.8-7 cm, width 1-3 cm. Apex acuminate or acute, base obtuse, entire, almost hairless above, with light brown hairs below. The flowers are butterfly-shaped, yellow or white in color, and the flowering and fruiting periods are from June to 65438+1October.
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The value and application of Trifolium repens;
1, clover flavonoids contain kaempferol, quercetin, anthocyanin, dandelion terpene ketone and other elements.
2. Flavonoids are not only various, but also abundant in clover.
3. Trifolium repens is rich in polysaccharide, which is also a traditional Chinese medicine substance composed of organisms.
4. The ethyl acetate extract of Trifolium pratense has strong antiviral activity.
5. White clover is a rare folk medicinal plant endemic to China. White clover can be used as medicine, and it is cool and nontoxic.
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