Aspergillus oryzae, commonly known as Qingming grass, also known as Nien Zi Hua, Buddha ear grass, Qingming vegetable, cold food vegetables, sheep's lettuce, parsley mother. The whole plant has white woolly hairs, leaves like chrysanthemum leaves and small, flocculent small yellow flowers, annual green flowering herb.

The scientific name does not exist rat bow (jū) grass, according to the local name of the rat yeast (qū) grass called rat bow grass. See the introduction of Aspergillus oryzae, Aspergillus oryzae, and Aspergillus chrysanthemi

Chinese name Aspergillus oryzae

Latin name Gnaphalium affine D. Don

Alias Ching Ming Cao (清明草)

Botanical Kingdom

Portal of the Angiosperms

Plantae Dicotyledons

Subphylum Sympatryllum

Element Chrysanthemums

Archiptera. p>

Organism Eustoma

Family Asteraceae

Subfamily Tubuliflora

Family Euonymus

Genus Aspergillus

Species Aspergillus rufescens

Occurrence area Taiwan, East China, South China, Central China, North China, Northwestern China, Southwestern China and the Southwestern China provinces.

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1 Morphology

2 Distribution

3 Medicinal efficacy

4 Provenance

5 Effects

1 Morphology

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Annual herb. The stem is erect or the lower part of the branches from the base rise obliquely, 10-40 centimeters or more in height, with a basal diameter of about 3 millimeters, unbranched distally, furrowed, covered with thick white cotton hairs, with internodes 8-20 millimeters long, and rarely up to 5 centimeters in the upper part of the internodes. Leaves sessile, spatulate-oblanceolate or obovate-spatulate, 5-7 centimeters long, 11-14 millimeters wide, distal leaves 15-20 millimeters long, 2-5 millimeters wide, base attenuate, slightly decurrent, apically rounded, spinose-acuminate, both surfaces covered with white cottony hairs, often thinner above, veins 1, inconspicuous below. Heads more or less numerous, 2-3 mm in diameter, subsessile, crowded into corymbs at the tops of branches, flowers yellow to yellowish; involucre campanulate, ca. 2-3 mm in diameter; involucral bracts 2-3-layered, golden-yellow or lemon-yellow, membranous, glossy, outer layer obovate or spatulate-obovate, abaxially covered with cottony hairs at base, apical end rounded, base attenuate, ca. 2 mm, inner layer long-spatulate, abaxially usually glabrous, apically obtuse, the inner layer long-spatulate, abaxially often glabrous, apically obtuse, the upper layer with white spine-accented hairs. 2.5-3 mm; receptacle slightly concave at center, glabrous. Female flowers numerous, corolla finely tubular, ca. 2 mm, corolla tip enlarged, 3-toothed, lobes glabrous. Bisexual flowers fewer, tubular, ca. 3 mm, tapering upward, limb 5-lobed, lobes triangular-acuminate, glabrous. Achenes obovate or obovate-terete, ca. 0.5 mm, with papillae. Crown hairs rough, dirty white, readily glabrescent, ca. 1.5 mm, united basally into 2 bundles. Flowering period January-April, August-November[1] .

2 Distribution

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Originally from Taiwan, eastern, southern, central, northern, northwestern, and southwestern provinces and regions of China. It is found on dry land or moist grassland at low elevations, especially in rice paddies, where it is most common. It also occurs in Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, the Central and Southern Peninsula, and India[1] .

3Medicinal effects

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The stems and leaves are used in medicine as cough suppressants, expectorants, and in the treatment of asthma and bronchitis, as well as in non-infectious ulcers and wounds. [1]

4Source

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Mouse curculio, mouse yeast grass, the sound is the same, only the word "bow" is written differently, and in the Anqing area of Anhui Province is also known as: water Hagi, water ball and so on. Mouse bow grass, commonly known as Qingming grass, also known as Buddha ear grass, Qingming vegetable, cold food vegetable, sheep vegetable, rice vegetable, ground vegetable, parsley mother. The whole plant has white woolly hairs, leaves like chrysanthemum leaves and small, flocculent small yellow flowers, annual grass, Qingming season, sprouting sheep white hairy fine leaves. It is calm in nature and has the effect of resolving phlegm, relieving cough, lowering blood pressure and removing wind.

At the time of the Qingming Festival, it sprouted white hairy fine leaves. It is calm in nature and has the effect of resolving phlegm, relieving cough, lowering blood pressure and removing wind. In the Compendium of Materia Medica, there is a passage that reads: "Koji, its flowers are yellow like koji, and it can be eaten with rice flour. Mouse's ear, said its leaf shape like a mouse body, and there are white hair Meng velvet like jade ......." The grass all over China, the ancestors traditionally have picked its seedlings to eat or add rice flour to make cakes and dough records.

5 Role

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In Sanming, people call Qingming Guo also known as Qingqing Guo, the selection of weeds are also mainly two kinds of rat bow grass and mugwort. With the mouse bow grass made of light green, vaguely have a son of clear aroma, with the mugwort made of Qingming fruit is dark green, have a strong smell of mugwort. Wormwood is also widely used in China to make the raw material of Qingming fruit.

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In Sichuan, the grass and glutinous rice called Qingming Po, in the Qingming Festival day to the ancestors graves, in addition to bring firecrackers, incense, paper money

, candles, meat, wine, but also have to bring this poop.

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