The son talked about the origin of this agastache while eating fish and said, "Mom, why don't you buy a plant and grow it yourself?" Our family all like the smell of musk. ""I don't know, where to sell it! " "Some places should sell flowers. "
I went to ask my neighbor again, and she said, "There is a nursery in front of the farmer's market."
I came to what my neighbor called a "nursery". There is only one plant left, and the owner wants five dollars and says "buy it cheaply" for me! "Things are rare! If you buy expensive ones, you have to buy them! " I took it home after all.
When I got home, I quickly planted the idle old flowerpots and watered them. Looking at this "sky-high" Huoxiang Zhengqi Miao, I chatted with my son. Pogostemon fragrans by the dam of hometown compound.
When I was a child, there was a lush agastache rugosa beside the dam. Aunt Wu in the same hospital believes in Buddhism and loves this kind of agastache. From a distance, she scolded us for being naughty and not allowed to get close, for fear that we would trample on her baby.
The memory of Pogostemon fragrans will sprout new buds on the old roots every spring and grow there all the time. Clusters of Pogostemon cablin grow tender leaves from the soil and soon grow into a piece.
My mother will pinch it in a dense place at night, wash it and put it in a basket to control the water. The next morning, you can eat fragrant Huoxiang steamed buns, which are slightly spicy and fragrant, with endless aftertaste.
These young leaves can be eaten for a spring, because they are regenerated at the same time.
During busy farming, we boil a pot of boiling water at home every morning, and then put a handful of fresh agastache and bamboo leaves in it. This homemade tea is very popular, which can relieve summer heat and reduce fire. It is the best refreshing drink in the tired season.
When Pogostemon cablin grew waist-high, many branches still appeared, so Aunt Wu found many twigs and tied them around Pogostemon cablin to avoid accidentally touching them. It is a necessity for several families in the yard in summer.
Pogostemon cablin has a strong pungent smell. Mosquitoes, flies and snakes don't patronize places with agastache. Put a few pieces of agastache on the leftovers at home, and you can spend the night. On summer nights, when enjoying the cool, adults and children will carry small benches to the edge of musk bushes, watch the moon and stars in the night sky, and listen to adults pose a "dragon gate array".
Sometimes the skin is bitten by poisonous mosquitoes to get a big lump, which is itchy and painful, but it will soon disappear after being rubbed with the leaves of Pogostemon cablin.
No matter adults or children, when they have a cold and a stuffy nose occasionally, their minds are groggy. Just pick a clean patchouli leaf and knead it into a ball and stuff it into your nostrils. The pungent smell went straight to the forehead. After a while, your nose will be smooth and fresh.
Late summer and early autumn are the seasons when Pogostemon cablin blooms and bears fruit. This is a blue flower, similar to the flowers of mint and Schizonepeta, but it can attract bees to buzz. It must be "I know this is not snow in the distance, because it has a faint fragrance", which is an example of the fragrance of Pogostemon.
After autumn, Aunt Wu cut off the agastache with scissors, leaving a stubble on the ground that is neither too deep nor too shallow, so that it can reappear next year. If it is too shallow, it will freeze to death. If it is too deep, you will be afraid of tripping over the children playing.
Tie the cut patchouli with a rope and put it under the eaves. She always tells me, "This herb can be used in an emergency. Anyone who occasionally catches a cold or has diarrhea can be cured by decoction and medicine. "
Aunt Wu has been dead for so many years, and the courtyard of the old house has also been built into a building, and Huo Xiang has gradually disappeared. The children running among the agastaches flew out like birds.
When we returned to the countryside in the New Year, we got together to talk about the old people and recalled many past events before we knew another secret.
It turns out that Pogostemon fragrans is also called Daughter Grass. Whose daughter will be rich, healthy and beautiful; And families that don't raise daughters can't raise agastache. Then, there are no children, and the whole village is relatives. The reason why she loves those grasses is probably because she is a "five-guarantee household", caring for her neighbors and silently praying for everyone, so that the children around her can grow up healthily.
My son listened quietly to my story about Huo Xiang's past in the country, and his eyes were full of respect.
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According to Compendium of Materia Medica. Pogostemon cablin has the effect of homology of medicine and food.
Feng shui is toxic and swollen, and it can ward off evil spirits. Stop cholera and abdominal pain (not recorded). Spleen and stomach vomiting is the main medicine (Su Song). Help stomach qi, appetite and diet (elements). Warming the middle energizer, activating qi, lung deficiency and cold, upper energizer fever, bad breath, decoction and washing (so ancient). (Compendium of Materia Medica, Volume 14, Pogostemon cablin)
Pogostemon cablin is the aerial part of Pogostemon cablin or Pogostemon cablin. Pungent in taste and slightly warm in nature. "Huo" is the leaf of beans, which is rough and named after its obvious fragrance. Pogostemon cablin is rich in special fragrance, with the best quality, and its power of eliminating dampness, relieving summer heat and removing filth is particularly strong. Its main functions are:
1. Aromatic dampness-removing: used for symptoms such as fullness in the stomach, loss of appetite, nausea, mental fatigue and physical weakness caused by cold and dampness and spleen depression. Its smell is fragrant, eliminating dampness and filth, and it has good effects of invigorating spleen and stomach.
2. And stop vomiting: it is most suitable for vomiting caused by dampness and turbidity. Single use is valid. It can also be used for damp-heat, stomach cold, abstinence from alcohol and vomiting, and vomiting during pregnancy.
3. Solution: It is often used to catch a cold in summer. It is used for aversion to cold, fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other summer-dampness syndromes caused by exogenous wind-cold and internal injury. Commonly used in summer.
Healthy diet therapy
1. Pogostemon Pogostemon Beverage: Because Pogostemon Pogostemon Pogostemon has aromatic properties, bad breath can be removed according to its fragrance. Take appropriate amount of Pogostemon cablin, Eupatorium, Fructus Amomi, Fructus Amomi Rotundus, magnolia officinalis flower and Radix Aucklandiae, and soak them in water for drinking or decocting.
2. Pogostemon porridge: Pogostemon rugosa 10g, rice 10g, and proper amount of sugar. Cooking method: select clean Pogostemon rugosa, put it in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, soak it for 5 ~ 10 minutes, then add water to decoct to get juice, add rice to cook porridge, and add sugar to cook porridge until it is cooked.
3. Scrambled eggs with patchouli leaves: Wash and chop the patchouli leaves, break up the eggs, pour the chopped patchouli leaves into the egg liquid, add a little salt, put the chopped green onion in a hot pot and cook it with cold oil, then pour the mixed egg liquid and fry until the eggs are cooked thoroughly.
4. Pogostemon cablin, also known as fishy and fishy coriander in some areas, can inhibit fishy smell when cooking and frying fishy dishes.
Health preserving characteristics
Pogostemon cablin is used to treat miasma, acclimatization, cold and heat and malaria. It has a strong fragrance, can eliminate dampness and filth, and relieve epidemic diseases, and is especially suitable for people who are not acclimatized in different places, such as nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea, fatigue and loss of appetite. Generally, guanghuoxiang Zhengqi powder is taken orally. This medicine is an important medicine for treating acclimatization.
Staying in an air-conditioned room for a long time in summer is prone to dizziness, headache, sore throat, stuffy nose, general weakness, loss of appetite, dry skin, chills and joint pain, which is called air-conditioning disease. You can take Huoxiang Zhengqi Powder (commercially available).