The efficacy and function of lotus bean vegetable

Lotus bean vegetable is a very common Chinese medicine in our daily life. It is also very important in our daily life. However, some people don’t know much about the efficacy and functions of lotus bean vegetable, so let us learn about it in detail below.

[Other names] Round-leafed goose intestines, ground peanuts, and ruffian grass (Guizhou Folk Medicine), lotus beans, water green grass, green snake, and rice vegetables (Hainan Flora), string money grass, water holland, water ice, and green money grass (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List).

[Source] It is the whole herb of the plant Euphorbia pulegii of the Caryophyllaceae family.

[Original morphology] Annual spreading herb. The stem is smooth, branched near the base, with weak branches, and is 60 to 90 cm long. Leaves are opposite, with short petioles; leaf blades are ovate to nearly circular, 1 to 2.5 cm wide, with rounded apex and a small convex tip, base broadly cuneate or nearly cuneate, 3 to 5 veins, membranous; stipules are setose. Inflorescence is sparse, axillary or terminal; flowers are small, green, and the pedicels are slender; bracts have membranous edges; sepals are 5, narrowly oblong, 3-3.5 mm long, with 3 veins, and membranous edges; petals are 5, 2-lobed to below the middle, the lobes are narrow and shorter than sepals; stamens are 3-5, opposite to sepals; style is short, 2-lobed, and fused at the base. Capsule oval. Seeds 1 or more, round, flattened, rough. Flowering period: spring and autumn.

[Habitat distribution] Grown in shady and humid areas in the mountains. Distributed from southern to southwestern my country.

【Nature and flavor】 Bitter, cool.

【Functions and indications】 Clears away heat and detoxifies. Treat sores, furuncles, carbuncles, jaundice, malaria, rheumatism and athlete's foot.

[Usage and Dosage] For internal use: decoct in water, 2-3 qian (0.5-1 liang for fresh); soak in wine or mash into juice. For external use: mash and apply.

[Additional prescription] ① Treat jaundice: one liang each of round-leaved goose intestine and golden needle flower. Take it in decoction.

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

【Source】 From "Guizhou Folk Medicine"

The above content is an introduction to the Chinese medicine lotus bean vegetable. We should learn more about lotus bean vegetable in our daily life so that we can use it more reasonably and better play the value of lotus bean vegetable.