This is a type of snake root, most of which can be used as medicine.
Snake root is also known as kudzu fungus, kudzu flower, kudzu fungus, ground red fruit, fairy head, etc. It is a dicotyledonous plant in the subclass Rosaceae and family. This family is distributed in Taiwan, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, India, and Thailand. It is often mistaken for fungal plants. It is usually found under bamboo forests or broad-leaved forests on hillside at an altitude of 1,000 to 2,000 meters. It is parasitic on On the roots of rhododendron, triton and other plants.
The genus Aphidaceae is a perennial parasitic succulent herbaceous plant of the family Aphidaceae. Male plants are 10-30 cm tall and female plants are 5-10 cm tall. The rhizome is thick, spherical or massive, irregularly divided, and yellowish brown. The flower stems are yellow-brown, with many oval or oval-elliptical scales, nearly alternate. The spikes are terminal, the flowers are unisexual, dioecious, the male inflorescence is 10 cm long, and the female inflorescence is ovate, 1.5-3 cm long.
Snake root is a dioecious (unisexual inflorescence) plant with multiple rhizomes clustered together. Overall no chlorophyll. The stem is slender, 0.5-0.9 cm in diameter, with leaves degenerated into scales from the lower 1/3 to 2/3. The leaves are alternately opposite or nearly opposite, or arranged in a spiral shape, and some are imbricate when nearly opposite. The male inflorescence is elliptical, with a bract under the male flower. The bracts fuse with each other to form many hexagonal nests. From the base of the nests, stemmed male flowers grow. The tepals have 3 bases and the anthers form a flat polygon. Lateral cracking. The female inflorescence is nearly spherical or elliptical, with a small rod-shaped body that is inverted cone, with a truncated apex, and the length is 3 to 4 times the width; the female flowers are only borne on the main axis of the inflorescence.
Snake root can be used as medicine. Decoction can be used to relieve drunkenness. Grind into powder and mix with sesame oil for external use to treat rectal prolapse.
Medicinal use of whole herbal medicine, which can clear away heat, detoxify, cool blood and stop bleeding. Harvested in summer, washed and dried. Used for cough and vomiting blood, bleeding, swelling and pain of hemorrhoids, and finger boils.
The nature and flavor are bitter, astringent, cold and poisonous.
If you don’t understand medicine, it’s best not to use it as medicine without permission. You can dig up the whole plant and sell it to pharmacies.