Rice paddy weed was once a pig-feed grass that farmers hated, now it sells for 6 yuan per jin and has become a money-making grass

In rural fields there are all kinds of wild grasses, and these wild grasses are also quite bizarre, for example some have strange shapes, some give off peculiar smells, and some are covered in thorns, but no matter what, farmer friends are quite fond of most wild grasses, because quite a few wild grasses can be eaten as wild vegetables and can also serve as medicinal herbs for treating illness. But there are always some exceptions, namely those wild grasses that grow in crop fields and orchards, and these wild grasses often annoy farmer friends. Below, the author introduces just such a wild grass, one that once annoyed farmer friends.

Spring is the season when wild grasses grow, and once this season arrives, all kinds of wild grasses in rural fields grow one after another, and spring is likewise the sowing season, in which farmer friends are busy going down to the fields to plant, but before planting they must do one thing, and that is to remove the weeds in the fields; farmer friends deeply dislike the weeds in the fields, because they harm the crops. And in rice paddies there is just such a wild grass, its leaves are small and round, looking similar to purslane, and this wild grass is "roundleaf rotala".

Speaking of roundleaf rotala, many friends may not know this wild grass, but the author believes quite a few farmer friends who have planted rice paddies should know it; this wild grass most likes to grow in rice paddies, and its reproductive capacity is especially strong, often just a few plants of roundleaf rotala can multiply into a large patch, and it will snatch the nutrients of the crops in the rice paddy, thus causing the crops to grow poorly and reducing yield, so in the past roundleaf rotala especially drew the dislike of farmer friends, and they often removed it as soon as they saw it.

But although roundleaf rotala harms the crops in rice paddies and annoys farmer friends who plant fields, farmer friends who raise pigs like it very much, because pigs love to eat roundleaf rotala, and pigs that eat roundleaf rotala also fatten easily, so in the past farmer friends also called roundleaf rotala "fat pig grass", and often took roundleaf rotala to feed pigs.

But now, as the value of roundleaf rotala has been discovered, more farmer friends have come to like it too, and its main value is that it has very important medicinal value. According to "Chinese Materia Medica", the whole plant of roundleaf rotala can be used as medicine, its taste is sweet and its nature is cool, and as medicine it has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, strengthening the spleen and draining dampness, and reducing swelling, and can be used to treat lung-heat cough, dysentery, jaundice, painful urination, and boils and swellings, among many other symptoms.

It is precisely because roundleaf rotala has these effects that it has turned its fortunes around, and even in rural areas of the south, quite a few farmer friends who grow rice will specially interplant roundleaf rotala; as long as it is managed well, it cannot harm the crops. According to farmer friends who grow roundleaf rotala, they used to dislike it, never expecting that now it has also become our money-making grass; now roundleaf rotala is about 6 yuan per jin, and interplanting it also counts as a double harvest.

Dear friends, do you know roundleaf rotala? You are welcome to leave a message and share your thoughts!