Senecio: Generally speaking, it is a weed, growing in fields, ditches and roadsides. No one knows its existence until autumn, when it blooms with yellow flowers. In winter, the flowers turn into dandelions. The seeds carry their own parachutes, and the seeds rise with the wind and scatter in the sky.

As the name implies, this is about eyes and vision. Also known as Jiuli Ming, Jiuli Guang, Jiulong Light, and Jiuling Light. Exaggerate the truth and become clairvoyant.

Senecio japonica: The whole plant is used as medicine. Bitter, pungent, cold in nature. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, improving eyesight and removing nebula, clearing away heat and detoxifying, removing dampness, killing insects and relieving itching.

Indications: In traditional Chinese medicine, it is used to treat carbuncles, sores, colds and fever, red and swollen eyes, diarrhea, dysentery, and skin eczema.

Dosage 15 30g. Appropriate amount for external use, decocted in water, fumigated and washed. Fresh grass can also be mashed and used.

Folk proverb: "If someone recognizes the "Thousand Miles Light", his whole family will never get sores."

Western medicine name: treatment of influenza, upper respiratory tract infection, pneumonia, acute tonsillitis, acute enteritis, bacillary dysentery, icteric hepatitis, cholecystitis, acute urinary tract infection, trichomonal vaginitis, Burns. Scalds.

It can be taken internally or externally: appropriate amount, decocted in water and washed; or boiled into a paste and applied on it;

In spring, the young shoots of Senecio are edible and make a delicious seasonal vegetable.