Qiqicai is a kind of perennial herb, which is also called wild safflower and green vegetable in our daily life. Generally, it grows in the area with an altitude of 140-2650 meters. The wild plants usually grow in the grassland, hillside or roadside, and have certain medicinal value, which has a very good effect on human body. Let's have a simple discussion on the effect and function of qiqicai Understand.
Leaves alternate, elliptic or long elliptic lanceolate, 7-10 cm long and 1.5-2.5 cm wide, with blunt apex, margin cleft teeth, unequal needling, both sides covered with arachnoid wool. The flower heads are terminal and dioecious; the involucres are bell shaped, with 5-6 layers of involucres, the involucres of male inflorescence are 1.8 cm long, the involucres of female inflorescence are 2.3 cm long; the flowers are tubular, lavender, the corolla of male flower is 1.7-2 cm long, and the corolla of female flower is 2.6 cm long. Born in a wasteland, roadside, or field.
function
Seven vegetables contain acaricoside, rutin, protocatechuic acid, caffeic acid, chlorogenic acid, alkaloid and inhibitory glycoside. Cold nature, sweet and bitter taste. It has the function of cooling blood and hemostasis, removing blood stasis and swelling. It is used for bleeding, emesis, urination, defecation, metrorrhagia, traumatic bleeding, carbuncle, swelling and sore. When the farmer broke his skin while working in the field, he crumpled the leaves and squeezed the juice into the affected area, and then applied it to the wound.
Through the above introduction, we know what the effect and function of the seven seven dishes are. In normal times, we can use them as things to treat or prevent diseases. At the same time, seven seven herbs are also widely used as a traditional Chinese medicine. But in normal times, we must use them under the guidance of doctors, and can not use them blindly by ourselves.