The fruit of the mountain girl can be eaten raw and made into a drink. Persistent calyx can be used medicinally, with the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials, and treating cough and sore throat. Laryngeal inflammation is the best. Also treat diabetes. Fruit contains more than a dozen essential amino acids and minerals. Hongguniang is a unique health-care perennial herb wild fruit in Chinese history.

Mountain girl has the function of clearing away heat and fire. When the pulp is in green fruit, it is cold, which can reduce summer heat, relieve ripening, improve eyesight and detoxify. When the fruit is achieved, it is warm, nourishing blood and nourishing the liver and spleen, which can treat dysentery; Seeds can strengthen yang and benefit qi, and roots can clear heat and detoxify.

In the sixteenth volume of the old edition of Compendium of Materia Medica, the fifth part of the grass clearly records that the wild fruit of Yanjing is a red girl, with a hanging sac, which contains a red child like a pearl, which is sweet and sour, edible and fragrant, and is also cute. It has many effects in treating jaundice (i.e. jaundice hepatitis), treating various diseases such as cough, wind and heat, improving eyesight and treating children's internal displacement.

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Cultivation techniques of mountain girl:

Seed propagation: mature seeds are collected in September ~1October, and the seed propagation method is generally not used. The disadvantage is that it can't blossom and bear fruit in that year, and it is labor-consuming, time-consuming and laborious.

Rootstock propagation: from April 10 in spring, plow the ground, pick out the roots, cut the roots into sections with 2-3 axillary buds, and bury the cut roots in the ground with a spacing of 30cm and a ridge of 66.7cm, with double rows on the ridge. Organic compound fertilizer15 ~ 20kg per mu.

Field management: at the seedling stage, weeding can be closed, which does not cause phytotoxicity to itself; Although there are few pests, they also occur, and corresponding pesticides can be sprayed; Leaf spot disease occasionally occurs, and spraying foliar fertilizer has a good preventive effect; The flowering period can last for one month around July 10. If it is hot and rainy, it will affect the fruit setting. In each period, it is necessary to keep thinning, and each fruit should be controlled at around 10, and then pinch the tip to avoid the loss of nutrients.

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