What is Qingming flower? Its roots and leaves can be used to make shells.

The annual Tomb-Sweeping Day is coming. Besides offering sacrifices to ancestors and sweeping graves, it is also a good time for people to go out for an outing. Friends from Yunnan, Fujian and Guangdong may encounter a plant commonly known as "Qingming Flower" when traveling. So what is this seasonal plant? Let the twenty-four solar terms introduce you.

Qingming flower, also known as cannonball fruit, is called "Shaqianglong" among all ethnic groups in Yunnan. Qingming flowers of Apocynaceae are evergreen woody vines with milk, large funnel-shaped flowers, white and fragrant. Mountain forests native to China, Yunnan and India abroad are cultivated in China, Guangxi and Guangdong, and also distributed in Fujian.

Qingming flower is a national key protected plant. Its flowers are large and numerous, and when they bloom, they are very solemn and spectacular. Suitable for courtyard decoration and large-scale scaffolding cultivation in South China. Flowering in spring and summer, fruit in autumn and winter. Its roots and leaves can be used as medicine, that is, shells in Chinese medicine. Its pungent taste is warm, and it belongs to kidney meridian. It has the effects of expelling wind and removing dampness, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, and is often used to treat rheumatism, lumbar muscle strain, traumatic injury, fracture swelling and pain.

The usage of cannonball fruit is generally decoction, 3-6 grams; Or soak in wine; The external application method is to choose fresh leaves and apply them properly. The compatibility of cannabinoid fruit was introduced in Selected Chinese Herbal Medicine of Simao, Yunnan. For treating rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatic bone pain, 9- 15g cannabinoid root and 15g croton can be used. Soak 500g of wine, 20-30ml each time, three times a day.

Qingming flowers are large and numerous, and they are warm ornamental plants, which can be cultivated in southern courtyards. Its propagation and cultivation methods generally adopt sowing or cutting propagation, cutting with mature branches of the year, watering and topdressing during the growth period, and pruning after flowering.