China artichoke

Alias: manna seed, dripping dew, ground silkworm, manna seed, Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. POTAMOGETON POTAMOGETON, Snail, Cordyceps sinensis, Horseshoe Fragrance, Osmunda japonica. Saussurea medusa Hyacinthus panax japonicus. Cynanchum multiflorum Thunb And spirogyra.

Family and Genus: Stachys of Labiatae.

Flowering and fruiting period: Flowering period is July-August, and fruiting period is September.

Morphological characteristics: perennial herbs. Rhizomes are creeping, with dense fibrous roots on them, small transverse rhizomes at the top, and spherical tubers. The stem is 30-120m high, with bristles on the edges and nodes. Leaves opposite; Petiole length 1-3 cm; The leaf blade is ovate or oblong, with a length of 3-12cm and a width of1.5-6cm, the tip is slightly pointed or tapered, the base is flat to shallow heart-shaped, the edge has regular crenate serrations, and there are short bristles on both sides; Cymes are usually 6 flowers, most of which are 5- 15cm apart, with terminal false spikes; Xiao Xun is strip-shaped and puberulent; Calyx narrowly bell-shaped, teeth about 9 mm long, covered by glandular hairs, veins 10, teeth 5, triangular, with thorns at the top; Corolla pink to purplish red, about 1.2 cm long, hairy ring in tube, upright upper lip, 3-lobed lower lip, and nearly round middle lobe. Nutlets ovoid, dark brown, tuberculate.

Nature: sweet taste, flat nature. It can nourish yin and moisten the lungs.

Reference: Hydrochloric acid, stachyose, protein, amino acids, fat, fenugreek and other ingredients.

Usage: Used for deficiency of lung yin, dry cough with little phlegm, or fatigue cough.

Usage: frying, steaming or boiling, etc.

Attachment: ground silkworm and pig lung soup: pig lung 1 piece, washed and cut into pieces, grass silkworm 120g, stewed together with water, seasoned with pig fertilizer and salt. The prescription directly uses pig lung to replenish lung, which enhances the drug effect of Stachys sieboldii. Used for cough and dry throat due to lung deficiency.