How much do you know about the wick?

[ Agricultural Products Network] This article introduces the reader to the wick, which is the wick that looks like the previous kerosene lamp, slender and slender. Generally, the stems are cut, dried, and the stems are taken out, straightened, and sold into small pieces.

There are also some names for rush grass: valerian, tiger grass, horse brown root, red whisker, Eulaliopsis, wild horse brown, wild mat grass.

The wick has a light sweet taste and is cold. Wickweed has anti-microbial and anti-oxidant effects. After extracting the wick, acetone extract, ethanol extract and ethyl acetate extract were obtained, and the ethyl acetate extract had obvious anti-microbial and anti-oxidation effects.

The wick grass described in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" can reduce the effect of heart fire, hemostasis and swelling. At the end of summer and early autumn, the leaves of the wick are removed, and the stalks are cut into one inch length and dried to be used as medicine.

Another use of rush grass is to make wick carbon. The wick is cut into the furnace to make it charcoal. Like charcoal, wick carbon is more expensive.

The wick grass is sweet and cold, and has the effect of lowering heart fire and benefiting urination. It has a good effect on treating urinary dryness, hot breath of mouth sores, and insomnia at night, and the wick is non-toxic.

Folk also useful for the treatment of acute rushes Fire Attack heart of many remedies, eat together with the use of plantain and other herbs, the effect is obvious.

Although the wick is non-toxic, the wick is cold and should not be drunk too much, especially those who are sick and sick, serious illnesses, old children, pregnant women, etc. should be hanged.

Consult a professional physician before eating wicks.

Wick grass is a cash crop, Chinese herbal medicine , can also be used for greening, and is also one of the channels to make money. [ China Agricultural Products Network ] Organize , the picture is from the member, the copyright belongs to the original author.