Phryma leptostachya: the weed farmers cut down on sight, yet a famous herb in the Compendium of Materia Medica

Our country is vast in territory and rich in resources, with abundant vegetation, especially in the rural countryside, where all kinds of wild weeds are even more numerous. As for these weeds, to be honest, farmer friends have mixed opinions about them, because many weeds can be eaten as wild vegetables or used as herbal medicine, making them beloved, while quite a few weeds grow near farmland and orchards and annoy farmer friends, thus creating this mixed state of praise and criticism. Below, the author introduces just such a weed, and it is a real nuisance.

Speaking of this weed, I think most friends who have lived in the countryside should have seen it; it is a common roadside weed, yet its name is quite imposing, called Phryma leptostachya, though its other names are unpleasant, such as sticky-skirt, midwife weed, poison-maggot weed, burr weed, and fly-poison weed. The reason for this is that this weed has burrs on its body, often sticking to people's clothes, and it especially attracts flies, so it is particularly annoying, and farmer friends cut it down as soon as they see it.

However, despite this, Phryma leptostachya is a famous herb in the "Compendium of Materia Medica". According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica": Phryma leptostachya "treats all rheumatic pain and contracture of the sinews and bones." This refers to the effects of Phryma leptostachya. So what effects does Phryma leptostachya have?

According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", the whole plant of Phryma leptostachya can be used as medicine, with the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, promoting diuresis and detoxifying, and unblocking meridians and penetrating the bones. It can be used to treat colds, bruises and injuries, poisonous sores, eczema, scabies, rheumatic pain, contracture of sinews and bones, numbness of the limbs, rheumatoid arthritis, and many other symptoms, and it is especially effective for rheumatic conditions.

So although quite a few farmer friends dislike Phryma leptostachya and cut it down whenever they see it, there are still many older farmer friends who are very fond of it, often using it boiled in water for external washing to treat rheumatic conditions. Therefore, friends, when you see this Phryma leptostachya in the future, do not casually cut it down and throw it away; at critical moments it still has great use.

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