What does a sickle grass look like?

Sickle grass, also known as pig gizzard, belongs to Labrador vine of Rubiaceae. Branching, creeping or climbing herbs. Usually 30-90 cm high, the grass stem has four corners, and there are small inverted bristles on the edges, leaf margins and veins. The leaves are papery or nearly membranous, with 6-8 whorls and a few 4-5 leaves. The leaves are oblanceolate or oblanceolate, about 1-5.5 cm long and about 1-7 mm wide. The top of the grass has needle-like convex flower tips, and prickly hairs are often attached to both sides, which often curl when it is dry and short of water. Small flowers, slender pedicels, yellow-green or white corolla, radial, oblong lobes, less than1mm. Its fruit is dry, 5.5 mm in diameter, full, and its stalk is long and straight, 2.5 cm long and relatively thick. The flowering period of Fusarium is from March to July every year, and the fruiting period is from April to June every year.165438+1October.

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Pig gizzard has the effect of promoting blood circulation, and its tender seedlings can be eaten as vegetables. It is said that pig food made it sick, so it was named pig gizzard.

Growing environment and distribution: This kind of grass mostly grows on hillsides, wilderness, ditches, floodplains, fields, forest margins, grasslands and other places at an altitude of 20-4600 meters. In China, it is distributed all over the country (except Hainan and South China Sea Islands). It is also distributed in Japan, Korea, Russia, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Europe, Africa, North America and other parts of the world.

Value: Chinese medicine believes that this herb can clear away heat and toxic materials, induce diuresis and reduce swelling. It also has certain curative effect on common cold, gingival bleeding, acute and chronic appendicitis, urinary tract infection, edema, dysmenorrhea, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, cancer and leukemia. For external use, it can be used to treat early mastitis, carbuncle and furuncle, and traumatic injury.

Source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhu Pang