Spearmint, also known as green and green peppermint, is one of the oldest herbs in China. It has the functions of relaxing wind, regulating qi, cooling and relieving summer heat.
The difference between spearmint and spearmint
1, look
Many flower friends don't know how to distinguish spearmint from spearmint. Actually, the difference between them is very obvious: the vein of spearmint is "human", the leaves of spearmint are wrinkled, with many patterns and deep colors.
2, smell
The main component of menthol is menthol, which has a light smell. Spearmint has carvone and limonene, which has a strong smell. If you use your hand to fan it for a few times, it will spread faster.
Use of spearmint
1. Cool and stop itching, refresh your mind
When dizzy and sleepy, you can use the leaves of spearmint to wipe your temples to feel cool. After being bitten by mosquitoes, the itching is intolerable. You can also wipe it to stop itching quickly.
Usually raise a basin in the windowsill, smell the taste of the spirit doubled!
2. As a cooling agent and fragrance enhancer
Liulanxiang is often used in toothpastes to enhance fragrance and cool. We can also air dry the leaves of liulanxiang and make them into sachets and put them at home to repel mosquitoes and refresh our mind.
3. Eating
Use the leaves of spearmint to make tea, refreshing and refreshing. It can also be added to food as ingredients, good-looking and refreshing
Liulanxiang maintenance
Breeding mode: sowing in spring, summer and Autumn
Soil: loose sand or rotten leaf soil.
Water in light: keep in the place with bright astigmatism, water once every 1-2 days.
Purple shellfish dish is also called red back dish. It is widely planted in the south. People think it has the effect of tonifying blood gas and physical strength. In fact, it has a strong anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect.
Use of purple shellfish
1. Calm down and relieve pain.
After some mosquitoes bite, they itch and ache, scratch the bleeding mark, mash the purple shellfish, apply it on the wound in circles, cool, relieve itching and pain
2. Eating
Garlic and purple shellfish, purple shellfish and egg soup are very delicious. They can also nourish Qi and blood. They are suitable for women.
Purple shellfish vegetable maintenance
Breeding mode: sowing in spring, summer and Autumn
Soil: common garden soil is OK
Light moisture: dew or balcony can be raised, watering every day
The head of wolfberry is the leaf bud of wolfberry. When it comes to wolfberry, Hua you must know that its fruit is very healthy. In fact, wolfberry leaf is also a good heat clearing herb.
Medlar head uses
1. Make tea, clear the liver, clear the eyes and clear the fire.
In addition to dried tea can be brewed, fresh wolfberry leaves can also be brewed tea, usually drink a little, fire Qingshen, but also conducive to the elderly vision health care
2. Eating
The fresh and tender medlar can be eaten as green vegetables, such as cold mix, stir fry and soup. The taste is fresh, liver is clear and lung is good
Medlar care
Propagation mode: sowing in four seasons, cutting in spring and summer
Soil: ordinary garden soil can
Light and water content: like light, water the seedlings for 1-2 days, dry the soil and then water them when they are mature.
Grass as its name - LMZ, you may have heard of LMZ toothpaste, but you certainly haven't seen it!
Use of double faced needle
1. Remove blood stasis and relieve pain.
The leaves of Zanthoxylum nitidum were decocted with water for about 15 minutes. The thick blue and yellow juice was decocted and applied to the bruise position to eliminate swelling and stasis.
2. Treat toothache
The root of LMZ can be used as medicine after drying. It's a famous toothache medicine, so it's often added to toothpaste
Double needle curing
Soil: common garden soil, rotten leaf soil are OK
Light: in addition to summer shade, spring and autumn and winter can be directly sun fed
Water content: the basin soil is dried and then poured to avoid water accumulation.
As the main medicinal material of Huoxiang Zhengqi water, of course, Huoxiang is the strongest magic weapon for clearing away heat and heat. Have you planted it in your family?
Application of Agastache
1. Clear away heat and heat.
Weak people are prone to dizziness and fatigue when the temperature is high in summer, especially the middle-aged and elderly people are prone to heatstroke. Make a cup of Huoxiang tea to relieve the heat, refresh the mind and relieve dizziness and chest tightness.
2. Eating
Agastache leaves can be eaten, can be fried whole leaves, but also with fish cooking, to the smell ~
Agastache maintenance
Soil: common garden soil, rotten leaf soil are OK
Light and moisture: put it in the place of astigmatism and ventilation, and water it every day.
Xueweicao, also known as wild mint, can be used for medicine. Ancient prescriptions record the effects of cooling blood, detumescence and relieving cough. It's common in the wild. Now there are people at home
Snow grass use
1. Clear throat, remove fire.
Wash the leaves of snow grass, make tea, clear throat and throat, remove fire.
2. Cough relief
Xuejiancao wash, boil in the pot for about 20 minutes, drink it can stop cough and phlegm, this is the old folk method, but the effect is also different
Snow grass maintenance
Breeding method: digging in the field
Soil: common soil can do
Light and water: like light, put it in a good place, water once every 2-3 days
Jingtian Sanqi is also called Feicai. It is said that it has the effect of nourishing the heart (the specific effect is unknown). It is very effective in relieving inflammation and itching!
Jingtian 37 uses
1. Special effect antipruritic
After the mosquito bites, rub the leaves and put them on the bag. It won't itch for a while. Adults and children can use it. The grandmother of Huahua has planted it. In summer, we must prepare a basin.
2. Eating
In recent two years, Jingtian 37 has also started to serve at the dinner table. It's OK to stir fry in cold sauce and stir fry in clear sauce. Huahua has not been tried yet.
Jingtian 37 maintenance
Propagation method: cuttage, hydroponics rooting
Soil: common garden soil planting, but also hydroponics
Light and moisture: put in the place of astigmatism and ventilation, and water once every 2 days.
Grow loofah, don't just know to eat melon, loofah leaf is also very useful, it has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification, don't waste
Luffa leaf use
1. Cool and relieve itching
Rub the loofah leaves into the juice and rub it on the mosquito bites. It can relieve the itch mildly and effectively. It's not irritating yet. It's especially suitable for people and children who can't stand the cool oil.
2. Dyeing
Loofah leaf is a relatively ancient source of dyeing, can be dyed light green, dreamlike ancient method
Loofah care
Soil: common garden soil, rotten leaf soil are OK
Light and moisture: put it in the place of astigmatism and ventilation, and water it every day.
