What are the specialty herbs of Guizhou?

Guizhou characteristic herbs are honeysuckle, honeysuckle, ginseng, prickly pear, Tianma, hook vine, dendrobium, Aina Xiang, half-summer, salvia, ginseng, ginseng, He Shouwu, Sequel, bitter ginseng, Epimedium, Platycodon grandiflorus, Atractylodes macrocephalus, auspicious grasses, Polygonum cephalospermum.

1, Tianma

Tianma (scientific name: Gastrodia elata? Bl.) is an orchid, Tianma genus of decaying herbaceous plants.

Distributed in China Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Tibet. It occurs in the understory of open forests, forest clearings, forest margins, and edges of thickets, and is also distributed in Nepal, Bhutan, India, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula to Siberia.

Tianma is one of the valuable Chinese medicines. Tianma do medicinal use has been more than a thousand years of history, with Tianma brewed health wine is regarded as the palace treasures. Ancient medical books "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" and "Compendium of Materia Medica", there are Tianma "in addition to all diseases and longevity" records.

2, Polygonum multiflorum

Also known as Polygonum multiflorum, Purple Wootton, Nightshade and so on. It is a perennial twining vine plant of Polygonaceae Polygonum spp. The tuberous roots are thick, long oval, black-brown.

Born in the valley scrub, mountain slopes under the forest, ditch side stone gap. Produced in southern Shaanxi, southern Gansu, eastern China, central China, southern China, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou. Its tuberous roots are used in medicine, which can tranquilize the mind, nourish blood, activate collaterals, detoxify (intercept malaria), eliminate carbuncle; the system of Shouwu can tonify essence and blood, black hair, strong tendons and bones, and tonify the liver and kidneys, and is a common and valuable fine Chinese medicine.

3, Aina Xiang

Aina Xiang is a perennial herb or subshrub plant of the genus Aina Xiang, family Asteraceae. The stem is stout, erect, 1-3 meters high; the lower leaves are broadly elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, stalked, with 3-5 pairs of narrowly linear appendages on either side of the stalk.

Upper leaves oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, sessile or shortly stipitate, often with 1-3 pairs of narrowly linear appendages on either side of the stalk; heads numerous, involucres campanulate, receptacles foveolate, 2-3 mm in diameter, glabrous.

Flowers yellow, female flowers numerous, corolla finely tubular, bisexual flowers fewer, corolla tubular; achenes terete, densely pilose. Corolla hairs reddish brown, hispid. Flowering almost throughout the year, mainly by asexual reproduction.

Distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, India, Pakistan, etc., born in forest margins, forest understories, riverbed valleys, or grasslands at altitudes of 600-1000 meters.

The whole herb of Aina Xiang is used as medicine, which can sweat and dispel phlegm, treating food injury, cholera, heat stroke, chest and abdominal pain. It is one of the raw materials for extracting ice chips, and the fresh stems and leaves can be extracted and processed to make ai tablets (levulin).

4, Dendrobium

Dendrobium (scientific name: Dendrobium nobile Lindl), also known as Dendrobium orchid rhyme, immortal grass, soul grass, purple haunting fairy plant, hanging orchid, forest orchid, forbidden to live, cinchona flower and so on.

The stem is erect, fleshy and fertile, slightly flattened cylindrical, 10~60 centimeters long and up to 1.3 centimeters thick. Medicinal plant, sweet, light and slightly salty in nature, cold, to the stomach, kidney, lung meridian.

Benefiting the stomach and generating fluids, nourishing yin and clearing heat. Used for yin injury and fluid deficiency, dry mouth and thirst, dry vomiting with little food, deficiency heat after illness, dark and unclear eyes. Dendrobium is elegant, delicate and lovely, with bright color and fragrant smell, it is regarded as one of the "four ornamental flowers".

5, honeysuckle

Honeysuckle, March flowers, five out, slightly fragrant, red, red, flowers at the beginning of the color white, after one or two days of yellow, so the name honeysuckle. And because of the two flowers, two stamens to explore the outside, in pairs, inseparable, like male and female companions, like mandarin ducks dance, so there is a mandarin ducks vine called.

The most obvious feature of this species is that it has large leafy bracts. It somewhat resembles Lonicera japonica in appearance, but the bracts of that species are narrow and thin rather than leafy, the calyx tube densely pubescent, and the branchlets densely curly pubescent, which are distinctly different from this species.

The morphological variation of this species is very great, both in the indumentum of the branches and leaves, in the shape and size of the leaves, and in the length of the corolla, the indumentum, and the ratio of the length of the labellum to that of the tube. However, all these variations appear to be more ecologically linked and do not show a correlation with geographical distribution.

Honeysuckle has been known since ancient times as a good medicine for clearing heat and removing toxins. It is sweet, cold and aromatic, cold and clearing heat without harming the stomach, and aromatic and translucent and can dispel evil spirits. Honeysuckle can dispel wind-heat, but also good blood detoxification, used for a variety of feverish diseases, such as fever, rash, spotting, canker sores, sore throat, etc., are effective.

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