Tongcao alias kou tuo, away from the south, live 莌, leaning Shang, flowers and grasses, etc., for the five plus family plants Tongtuo wood stem pith, Tongcao can be bought in the drugstore.

Tongcao evergreen shrubs or small trees, born in the sunny fertile cover below 2800m above sea level, or cultivated in the rotation, distributed in southwest and Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

Selected in the fall of more than 3 years of pole plant, cut the appropriate wood stem, while fresh cut into segments, with a thin wooden stick or round bamboo tube to poke out the medulla, gently straighten, sun-dried placed in a dry place.

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Preferring warmth and humidity, not drought-resistant, afraid of waterlogging, the soil is not demanding, in the red soil, brown soil, brown soil, brown soil, brown soil, brown soil, brown soil. Red soil, brown soil, brown soil, sandy soil are good growth, especially suitable for growth in the soil layer of loose and fertile sandy loam, manifested in fast growth, plant shape, high yield.

The farmyard manure must be fully ripened before use, according to the amount of livestock manure 15 tons / hectare, phosphorus fertilizer 3000 kg / hectare mix, wet, in order to see the degree of water in the hands of the fingertips, after the heap of black mulch cover, the edge of the soil compaction composting.

When the center of the pile of manure temperature of about 70 ℃, composted for more than 20 days to turn the heap, will be turned on the lower layer, the side of the layer turned in the inner layer, the number of times depending on the manure is fully decomposed finely depending on the addition of biological strains of bacteria composting, can improve the effectiveness of fertilizer, inhibit harmful bacteria.