This product is a perennial herb of Gynostemma in Compositae. Born in roadsides, fields, border fields, ditches and wet grasslands on mountain slopes in Chi Pan. Distributed in the northeast, east, face and coastal islands of China.

It tastes sweet and bitter, but it is cold and nontoxic.

The herbs commonly used to cook herbal tea in Chaoshan area are: ebony, lophatherum gracile, orange, sesame, rose leaf, red vine, Rosa laevigata root, butterfly, Desmodium styracifolium and bamboo shavings. Boil the above herbs in a casserole for hot or cold drinks.

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In Chaoshan area, there are other aliases, such as early lotus, upper lotus, white flowers (Chaozhou), white spring grass (Chaoyang), white palm grass, white flowers, white flowers, ink grass, black ink grass, white flowers, mouse grass, black eye grass and ink grass. In other places, it is called Fuzao Lotus, Mo Dou Grass, Wild Sunflower, Black Heart Grass, Ink Jet Grass and White Flower Maggot (Du Jing).

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