How to make delicious milk flower?

Have you heard of milkweed? In fact, milkweed refers to the bitter rope, which is a kind of Chinese medicinal material, especially in the southern region. In daily life, milkwort can be eaten and can also play a role in treating diseases. Especially for postpartum mothers, if they have no milk, they can use it to stimulate lactation. So how to make milkwort delicious? Generally speaking, milkwort is boiled in water and taken directly.

Bitter Rope

Alias: Milk vine, small wood vine, white vine, Chinese Nanshan vine, wild bubble vine, white pulp grass, Tongguansan, Chinese false night-blooming jasmine.

The Chinese medicinal herb Wattakaka is the whole plant of the dicotyledonous plant Dregea sinensis Hemsl. [Wattakaka sinensis (Hemsl.)Stapf] of the Apocynaceae family.

Original form

Climbing woody vine; stems with lenticels; young branches with brown pubescence. The leaves are papery, ovate-cordate or nearly round, cordate at the base, 5-11 cm long, 4-6 cm wide, with short soft hairs on the surface, gradually becoming glabrous with age, and pubescent on the back; there are about 5 lateral veins on each side; the petiole is 1.5-4 cm long, pubescent, with clusters of small glands at the top. The umbel inflorescence is axillary, with up to 20 flowers; sepals are ovate to ovate-oblong, with glands at the inner base; the corolla is radial, up to 1.6 cm in diameter, white on the outside and purple-red on the inside, the corolla segments are ovate, 6-7 mm long, 4-6 mm wide, obtuse and slightly concave at the apex, and have ciliates; the internal morphology of the corona lobes is fleshy and swollen, with sharp inner angles at the ends; there is a membranous disc at the top of the anthers; the pollinia is oblong and erect; the ovary is glabrous, the carpels are free, the stigma is conical, pentagonal at the base, and 2-lobed at the apex. The follicles are narrowly lanceolate, 5-6 cm long and about 1.2 cm in diameter. The exocarp is wavy and covered with short soft hairs. The seeds are flat, ovate-oblong, 9 mm long and 5 mm wide, with 2 cm long seed hairs on the top. The flowering period is from April to August, and the fruiting period is from July to October.

Nature and flavor and meridians

Slightly bitter, astringent, flat.

Efficacy and function

Anti-inflammatory, lactation, diuretic, dehumidifying and analgesic. It is mainly used to treat milk obstruction, urinary difficulty, weak cough, stomachache, rheumatic pain, carbuncle and furuncle.

How to use

3~5 qian, decocted in water and taken orally, can also be applied externally.