What role does cornflower play in rural areas?

What is the function of cornflower common in rural areas? Cornus officinalis is a widely distributed wild plant with good nutritional value. It can be seen in the wild and is common in fields and hillsides. Because its leaves are somewhat similar to corn, it is commonly known as corn, which is an excellent forage for legumes and a kind of sheep feed that rural shepherds like very much. Also known as "Qi Qi", "Niuhuang Huang" and "Gongmu".

The nutritional value of cornflower is very similar to that of traditional forage alfalfa, except that cornflower is mostly in the wild now, and alfalfa has been planted and popularized in many places. The yield per mu of alfalfa is much higher, and its economic value naturally has great benefits. Centaurea has not been planted in a large area before, and it can be used as forage and green manure. It is a good green manure plant and can improve soil properties.

Centaurea can be used not only as pasture and green manure, but also as medicine. Centaurea is bitter and cold, and can cure many diseases. The whole herb is used as medicine, which has the effects of diuresis, stranguria, antipyretic and dysentery. Decocting the whole herb with water can cure rubella; Can be used for treating common cold, fever, summer dampness, vomiting, diarrhea, malaria, dysentery, infectious hepatitis, cold stranguria, white turbidity and other diseases with good curative effect.

Treat malaria with cornflower folk prescription in rural areas: collect one or three cornflowers. Decoct with water and take it in two or three times. Take one dose every day for three days. It can also be used to treat summer heatstroke: collect three or four fresh cornflowers. Smash the boiled water suit. These are folk remedies, and the treatment effect is not bad.

Caragana is panicum miliaceum, similar to alfalfa, but alfalfa is a perennial leguminous forage. It can be understood that different plants have different uses. Centaurea is mainly used as medicine, and alfalfa perennial grass is mainly planted artificially.

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