The first thing you need to do is to find out what it looks like, and if you have any pictures of the dried stuff.

Patanga pictures are as follows:

Patanga, also known as fragrant patanga, patanga, vanilla, like to grow in mountain slopes in the grass, dense forest edge and forest. Paiwan grass is a perennial herb in the genus Heteroclitzia of the family Labiatae. The roots are aromatic, light in flavor, warm in nature, with the effect of eliminating odor, expelling wind, regulating qi, eliminating swelling, etc. It can also be used as antiseptic and as a spice, and it is an important raw material for the domestic solid medicinal wine.

Paiwan grass is a perennial herb, plant height 40 ~ 150 centimeters. The stem is irregularly square, with fine ribs. Single leaves alternate, elliptic lanceolate, 2-7 centimeters long, 1-3 centimeters wide, nearly sessile, acute, base cuneate. Branches in leaf axils, branches smaller. Synflorescence solitary in leaf axils, pedicel filiform 2 to 4 centimeters long.

Flowering yellow, membranous, petals 5, divided, long elliptic, stamens 5, opposite the petals. The fruit is petaloid. Seeds numerous, brown or black-brown, polygonal, minute. p>Application Value:

Pai Cao is a traditional folk medicine in China, which is often used to dispel wind and dampness, move qi and relieve pain, regulate menstruation, detoxification, treating colds and flu, coughs, rheumatism and paralysis, abdominal distension and pain, menstrual disorders, boils, snake bites.

Paikusa is also a valuable resource for the modern spice industry, the use of paikusa made of paikusa flavor, available in the tobacco industry and oriental cosmetics. As a spice, it is commonly used in spicy hot pot and marinade. Due to the large amount of raw material needs of the spice industry, and the grass belongs to the wild, often in short supply, to meet the needs of industrial production.

Pai Cao is an important raw material for the domestic solid medicinal wine, which is one of the three famous medicinal wines in Southeast Asia and enjoys a high reputation abroad.

Dry rhizomes and roots with old stems, produced in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places, has the effect of dissolving dampness and removing turbidity, diuresis and swelling, the main treatment for summer dampness, vomiting and diarrhea, edema, dysuria, at present to the Chinese medicine clinic prescription medicine, but also to the fragrant Paiwan grass as the raw material of the preparation such as the ten fragrant painkillers, avoiding the pestilence of the powder, and so on.

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