How to Grow and Care for Chinese Pulsatilla: Methods and Precautions
Soil
Chinese pulsatilla is suited to growing in deep soil with good drainage. Sandy soil or clay soil both work, with plenty of base fertilizer added.
Light and temperature
Chinese pulsatilla loves sunlight very much, but strong direct light should not be allowed to hit it. It is suited to growing in a cool, dry environment. Its cold tolerance is very good, but it fears high temperatures. Its most suitable growing temperature is 10°C-21°C. In summer, because the temperature is too hot and the light is too strong, the plant should not be kept in the sun. It needs appropriate shading and should be placed in a cool, ventilated spot. In addition, water can be sprinkled around the plant, which can lower the temperature around it and help it grow more healthily.
In winter, when the temperature is too low, the plant should be moved indoors for growing, and a certain temperature should be maintained to prevent the plant from being frostbitten due to excessively low temperatures.
Water and fertilizer management
When growing Chinese pulsatilla, watering and fertilizing the plant should be combined. Chinese pulsatilla likes fertilizer and has no specific requirement for the type of fertilizer. First, when the plant is planted out, some base fertilizer needs to be applied. Second, after the plant enters normal growth, to better support its growth, apply decomposed liquid fertilizer once every half month.
When fertilizing, watering is also needed. Watering should soak the soil thoroughly and keep the soil in a moist state, but be careful not to let water accumulate in the pot, otherwise it will cause the plant's roots to rot. Also, during the growing process, the amount of watering and fertilizing should be strictly controlled, otherwise it may very likely cause the plant to grow leggy or to bloom slowly.
Now that you understand how to grow Chinese pulsatilla, let's take a look at growing Chinese pulsatilla from seed!
How to Grow and Care for Chinese Pulsatilla: Methods and Precautions
Chinese scientific name Chinese pulsatillaLatin scientific name Pulsatilla chinensis (Bunge) RegelOther names Jujumiao, Laowenghua, Laoguanhua, MaozhuazihuaTwo-name method Anemone chinensisKingdom PlantaeDivision AngiospermsClass DicotyledonsSubclass RanunculidaeOrder RanunculalesFamily RanunculaceaeSubfamily RanunculoideaeTribe AnemoneaeGenus PulsatillaChinese pulsatilla (Latin scientific name: Pulsatilla chinensis (Bunge) Regel), a plant in the Ranunculaceae family, is a perennial herb. Its aliases include Naihecao, Fenrucao, Baitoucao, Laogucao, and so on. The plant is 15-35 cm tall. The petiole is 7-15 cm long and has dense long soft hairs. The flowering scape is 1 (-2), with soft hairs. The rhizome is 0.8-1.5 cm thick. It is distributed in China's Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Heilongjiang and other provinces, on hillsides, barren slopes and in fields. It has the effects of clearing heat and removing toxin, cooling blood and stopping dysentery, and drying dampness and killing insects, and it has high medicinal value. (Overview image reference source:)1. Morphological characteristics
The plant is 15-35 cm tall. The rhizome is 0.8-1.5 cm thick. There are 4-5 basal leaves, usually just emerging at flowering time, with long petioles; the leaf blade is broadly ovate, 4.5-14 cm long and 6.5-16 cm wide, trisect, the middle segment stalked or nearly sessile, broadly ovate, deeply trisect, the middle deep segment cuneate-obovate, rarely narrowly cuneate or inverted trapeziform, entire or toothed, the lateral deep segments unequally bifid, the lateral segments sessile or nearly sessile, unequally deeply trisect, the surface becoming hairless, the underside with long soft hairs; the petiole is 7-15 cm long, with dense long soft hairs. The flowering scape is 1 (-2), with soft hairs; the bracts are 3, connate at the base into a tube 3-10 mm long, deeply trisect, the deep segments linear, undivided or the upper part shallowly trilobed, the underside densely covered with long soft hairs; the pedicel is 2.5-5.5 cm long, up to 23 cm long in fruit; the flower is upright; the sepals are blue-purple, oblong-ovate, 2.8-4.4 cm long and 0.9-2 cm wide, densely soft-hairy on the underside; the stamens are about half as long as the sepals. The aggregate fruit is 9-12 cm in diameter; the achene is fusiform, flattened, 3.5-4 mm long, with long soft hairs, the persistent style 3.5-6.5 cm long, with long soft hairs spreading upward and outward. It flowers from April to May.2. Growth habits
It likes a cool, dry climate. It is cold-tolerant, drought-tolerant, and not tolerant of high temperatures. It grows best in deep sandy loam with good drainage, followed by alluvial soil and clay loam, while low-lying land with poor drainage is not suitable for planting.3. Geographical distribution
In China it is distributed in Sichuan (Baoxing, at an altitude of 3200 m), northern Hubei, Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, southern Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei (at an altitude of 200-1900 m), Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang. It grows in plains and low mountain slopes among grass, at forest edges, or on dry, stony slopes. It is also distributed in Korea and the Far East region of the Soviet Union.4. Identification
Trait identification
Chinese pulsatilla root is long cylindrical or conical, slightly curved, sometimes twisted and slightly flattened, 5-20 cm long, 0.5-2 cm in diameter. The surface is yellow-brown or brownish, with irregular longitudinal wrinkles or longitudinal grooves, sometimes splitting in the middle into 2-3 branch roots; the bark easily falls off to expose the yellow xylem, and it is often decayed into concave holes, where longitudinally raised netlike patterns can be seen; the root head is slightly swollen, sometimes forked, with several layers of sheath-like petiole bases and young leaves remaining at the tip, densely covered with white long down. It is hard and brittle, the broken surface slightly flat, yellow-white, sometimes with gaps between the bark and xylem. The odor is slight, and the taste is slightly bitter and astringent. Those with thick, long strips and a solid texture are considered better.Microscopic identification
Root transverse section: the epidermis, cortex, and endodermis have usually already fallen off. The phloem is broad, the outer cells brown, the walls suberized; phloem fibers single and scattered or several in bundles, 15-35 μm in diameter, with relatively thick walls, some roots without fibers. The cambium ring is obvious. The xylem rays are relatively wide; the vessels are round-polygonal, single and scattered or several in groups, 25-85 μm in diameter; the wood fibers are up to 42 μm in diameter, with slightly thick walls, non-lignified. In thicker roots, the center is often parenchyma cells.Powder characteristics: gray-brown.
1. Phloem fibers fusiform or spindle-shaped, 100-390 μm long, 16-42 μm in diameter, walls lignified.
2. Non-glandular hairs unicellular, 13-33 μm in diameter, the base slightly swollen, walls mostly lignified, sometimes with spiral or double-spiral striations visible.
3. Bordered pits, reticulate and spiral vessels, 10-72 μm in diameter.
Physicochemical identification
Take 4 g of the powder of this product, add 20 ml of ethanol, heat under reflux for 1 hour, filter, concentrate the filtrate to about 6 ml, cool, add an appropriate amount of acetone, and a precipitate forms; filter, quickly take a small amount of the precipitate (about 5 mg), place it in a test tube, add 1 ml of acetic anhydride to dissolve it, then add 1 ml of sulfuric acid along the tube wall, and a red or red-purple ring appears at the interface of the two liquids.5. Chemical constituents
The root of Chinese pulsatilla contains pulchinenoside A, B, C, D, 3-O-α-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1→2)-α-L-arabinopyranosyl-3β,23-dihydroxylup-△20(29)-en-28-oic acid [3-O-α-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1→2)α-L-arabinopyranosyl-3β,23-dihydroxylup△-20(29)-en-28-oicacid], pulchinenoside A3, B4, saponin 1, 2, betulinic acid 3-O-α-L-arabinopyranoside, betulinic acid, 3-oxobetulinic acid, daucosterol, anemonin, and protoanemonin.The root of Pulsatilla koreana contains clematis bisdesmoside (CP3a), clematis bisdesmoside (CP2), saponin II and saponin III. The root of Pulsatilla campanella contains pulsatiloside A, B, C, D, leontoside A, B, D, calcoside D, and cauloside D, F.
6. Propagation methods
Seed propagation
In production, seed raising and transplanting are mainly used. In Northeast China, seeds are generally harvested in early June, and can be harvested when 60% of the seeds have yellowed and matured. If the seeds are harvested too early, the maturity is insufficient and the seedlings are not strong; if harvested too late, the seeds will be carried by their own feathers and scattered by the wind. The harvested seeds are placed in a basket and dried in the sun, covered with a screen mesh on top, to prevent the seeds from flying away with the wind. When dried to a moisture content below 98%, place them on an iron mesh sieve and rub them repeatedly until the seeds and feathers are all crushed and fall below the iron mesh. Chinese pulsatilla seeds are very small; generally 1 kg of seeds contains 500,000 grains. With timely and proper sowing, the germination rate can reach more than 80%.Early spring sowing is mostly carried out in March-April, in drills, with a row spacing of 3.0-4.5 cm, and after sowing cover with soil just enough to cover the seeds. By the early spring of the second year, before the overwintered seedlings sprout, transplant at a row and plant spacing of 30 cm × 9 cm.
Division propagation
When the old plant has not yet sprouted, dig it up with the roots and plant the divisions.7. Cultivation techniques
Site selection and land preparation
Choose sandy loam or loam with slightly higher terrain, sufficient light, good drainage, and loose, fertile soil for cultivation; saline-alkali, easily waterlogged, and heavy clay land is not suitable for planting. After selecting the site, apply fertilizer according to soil fertility, mainly fully decomposed farmyard manure, with little chemical fertilizer. Apply 3000-4000 kg of farmyard manure per mu (667 sq m, the same below), and plow to a depth of 30-35 cm. After harrowing the soil clods fine, make beds 15-20 cm high and 1.0-1.2 m wide, rake the bed surface fine with a rake, and make a slightly convex bed surface ready for sowing.Seedling raising
Use new seeds collected in the current year; old seeds are forbidden. If there are sprinkler irrigation conditions, sow directly; if not, sow after germination promotion. Seed germination promotion method: soak the seeds in warm water for 4-6 hours, changing the water once during this period, then remove and drain the water, and place them at 25-30°C for germination promotion; during germination promotion, turn the seeds appropriately to prevent heating; after 4-6 days, when more than 70% of the seeds have sprouted at the tip, they can be sown; if they cannot be sown in time, store the germinated seeds at 2-5°C. When sowing, at an amount of 2.5 kg of seeds per mu, sow the seeds evenly on the bed surface, then cover the seeds with fine soil sifted through a sieve, generally covering with about 0.2 cm of soil, then water thoroughly, and cover the bed surface with straw, pine needles, and other materials to help retain moisture and promote emergence.Post-sowing management
With suitable conditions after sowing, germinated seeds generally emerge 4-5 days after sowing, while seeds that have not undergone germination promotion take longer to emerge. After emergence, gradually remove the straw and other coverings, to the extent of half shading and half covering. After true leaves appear, spray with hymexazol mixed with foliar fertilizer to prevent damping-off, spraying once every 5-7 days, generally 2 sprays being enough. In addition, according to growth, topdress with urea 2 times, each time applying 10 kg and then watering immediately, or applying before rain in the rain, to prevent seedling burn. Weeding should be early and thorough, to prevent weeds from competing with seedlings for nutrients; glyphosate can also be sprayed before emergence for weed control, but the timing of spraying must be well controlled.Transplanting
Chinese pulsatilla can be transplanted in both spring and autumn, using either 1-year-old seedlings of the current year or 2-year-old seedlings. Because Chinese pulsatilla likes a dry, cool climate, the transplanting field should preferably be high, dry land or sloping land. It can be transplanted in beds or in ridges; for bed cultivation, the plant and row spacing is generally 10 cm × 25-30 cm, and for ridge cultivation the plant spacing is about 8 cm. After transplanting, if there is drought, water thoroughly after planting; Chinese pulsatilla is extremely drought-tolerant, so after seedling recovery it basically needs no watering in the absence of severe drought. Chinese pulsatilla is tolerant of poor soil, and nitrogen fertilizer can be applied appropriately during the seedling stage; when bolting, remove the flower buds to favor root development; thereafter, each year before green-up, topdress with 10 kg of compound potassium fertilizer per mu to help accelerate root growth.Harvesting and processing
Generally harvested 2-3 years after transplanting, in autumn after the aboveground parts wither, cut off the remaining aboveground stems, dig out the main root by machine or by hand, remove the soil and dry it in the sun to make the finished product; generally more than 1500-2000 kg of fresh Chinese pulsatilla is produced per mu.8. Disease and pest control
Root rot
Root rot is likely to occur in the rainy season and in low-lying waterlogged plots. Control methods: 1. Before transplanting, soak the planting roots in a 100-fold dilution of 50% thiram for 3-5 minutes before planting; 2. During the rainy season of the growing period, attention should be paid to drainage to prevent water accumulation in the field. 3. During the disease period, irrigate with an 800-fold dilution of 50% thiophanate.Aphids
During the plant's growth and development, it may suffer aphid damage, mainly sucking tender buds and tender leaves, especially severe in dry weather. Control methods: during the aphid occurrence period, spray with a 1000-2000-fold dilution of 50% fenitrothion or a 1500-2000-fold dilution of 40% dimethoate emulsifiable concentrate, once a week, until there is no aphid damage.9. Main value
Ornamental
Chinese pulsatilla has more than 30 varieties, with bell-shaped flowers in three colors: white, purple, and blue. The whole plant is covered with hairs, which is very unusual. During the month and a half from flower opening to capsule maturity, first enjoy the flowers and then the fruit. In summer and autumn, the foliage is lush green, and it goes dormant after severe frost. As a wild perennial plant, it can be planted once and enjoyed for many years, overcoming the shortcomings of high cost and easy variety degeneration of annual and biennial herbaceous flowers. In gardens, it can be arranged in forest gaps and among shrubs, or planted naturally in flower borders. Because of its early flowering period and short plant height, it is an ideal groundcover plant variety. During the fruiting period, the feathery styles persist, shaped like a head, very unique. It can also be used for flower beds or potted appreciation. In addition, because Chinese pulsatilla is very sensitive to acid rain, when acid rain falls, Chinese pulsatilla quickly dies. This characteristic not only makes it often used as an indicator plant for detecting the degree of environmental pollution, but also increases its value as an ornamental flower.Medicinal
Pharmacological effects1. Anti-Entamoeba histolytica: Chinese pulsatilla decoction and its saponins can inhibit the growth of Entamoeba histolytica both in vitro and in vivo, but both require large doses. In in vitro tests, the decoction at 1:40 can completely inhibit the growth of amoebae; at 1:60, rounded precyst forms already appear in the culture fluid; the saponins at 1:200 can completely inhibit protozoan growth, at 1:500 rounded precyst forms appear, and at 1:1000 there is a therapeutic effect on rats infected with trophozoites. Both the decoction and saponins can effectively inhibit the growth of amoebae in the rat intestine, with the lowest effective dose both being 1.0 g (crude drug)/kg (equivalent to 1/250-1/750 of emetine hydrochloride); when the dose is reduced to 0.3 g/kg, the effect is no longer obvious.
Potentilla, often mistaken for Chinese pulsatilla on the market, also has a certain effect on Entamoeba histolytica in in vitro or animal in vivo tests, but a very large dose is required (3 times that of Chinese pulsatilla). As for other plants mistaken for Chinese pulsatilla, such as Potentilla discolor (Rosaceae), Polycarpaea corymbosa (Caryophyllaceae), Rhaponticum uniflorum and Gnaphalium hypoleucum (Asteraceae), they have no anti-amoebic effect in vivo or in vitro.
2. Anti-Trichomonas vaginalis: In in vitro tests of Chinese pulsatilla against Trichomonas vaginalis, a 60% extract or aqueous liquid at a 5% concentration can kill Trichomonas in 5 minutes. The fluid extract is highly irritating to the vaginal mucosa, but the fractions obtained by successive extraction with acetone and ether are less irritating and still effective against Trichomonas. It has also been reported that the MIC of Chinese pulsatilla powder against Trichomonas is 2 mg/ml.
3. Antibacterial effect: The juice squeezed from fresh stems and leaves of Chinese pulsatilla has an inhibitory effect in vitro (plate hole method) on Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and loses this effect after removing tannins (while Anemone hupehensis var. japonica still has this effect); its effect on Shigella is relatively poor, but it has also been reported that the effect of the decoction on Shigella varies with the concentration of the bacterial strain, being stronger against Shigella dysenteriae, and against Shigella flexneri, Shigella boydii and Shigella sonnei the effect weakens in turn or does not inhibit bacteria.
In in vitro tests against Shigella, the components of Pulsatilla Decoction (Chinese pulsatilla, ash bark, coptis, phellodendron) showed neither synergy nor antagonism. The alcohol extract of Chinese pulsatilla also has some inhibitory effect on Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus in test tubes, has no inhibitory effect on the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro, and has a mild inhibitory effect on influenza virus infection in mice. Some have studied the effect of Anemone cernua on pathogenic and non-pathogenic fungi in test tubes, and the results showed a weak inhibitory effect on a few fungi. The effective antibacterial component of Chinese pulsatilla is anemonin; the MIC of anemonin against Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Escherichia coli, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, etc. is between 8×10(-5) and 2×10(-6), and the antibacterial activity of anemonin also has a synergistic effect with streptomycin.
4. Antiviral effect: The water extract of Chinese pulsatilla can prolong the survival time of mice infected with influenza virus PR8, and also mildly reduce lung damage.
5. Other effects: It has been reported that the ethanol extract of Chinese pulsatilla has sedative, analgesic, and antispasmodic effects. The whole herb of Chinese pulsatilla with the root removed contains a cardiotonic component, okinalin, whose effect is somewhat similar to digitalis. Foreign Pulsatilla nigricans has a sedative effect, and can also lower blood pressure, slow the heart rate, strengthen cardiac contraction, and promote gastrointestinal movement. Chinese pulsatilla can also inhibit plant seed germination. The pulchinenoside A3 it contains has a certain anticancer effect, with an inhibition rate of 53.7% against P-388 at 100 μg/ml.
Nature and flavor
Bitter, cold.
1. Shennong Bencao Jing: bitter in flavor, warm, non-toxic.
2. Bielu: toxic.
3. Yaoxing Lun: sweet and bitter in flavor, slightly toxic.
4. Li Gao: bitter in flavor, cold in nature.
Meridian entry
Enters the large intestine, liver, and stomach meridians.
1. Leigong Paozhi Yaoxing Jie: enters the heart and kidney meridians.
2. Bencao Jingshu: enters the blood aspect of the hand and foot yangming meridians.
3. Changsha Yaojie: enters the foot shaoyang gallbladder and foot jueyin liver meridians.
Functions and indications
Clears heat and cools blood, removes toxin. Treats heat-toxin bloody dysentery, warm malaria with chills and fever, nosebleed, and bloody hemorrhoids.
1. Shennong Bencao Jing: mainly treats warm malaria, manic changes with chills and fever, abdominal masses and accumulations, goiter qi, expels blood and relieves pain, and metal wounds.
2. Bielu: (mainly treats) nosebleed.
3. Tao Hongjing: treats toxic dysentery.
4. Yaoxing Lun: stops abdominal pain and red toxic dysentery, treats toothache, mainly treats tumors and scrofula below the neck. Mainly treats pain in all joints.
5. Rihua Zi Bencao: treats all wind qi and warms the waist and knees, improves vision, and reduces growths. Seed: functions same as above.
6. Shanghan Yun Yao: suitable for those with heat-toxin dysentery with purple or fresh blood.
7. Bencao Huiyan: cools blood, disperses stasis, and resolves damp toxin.
8. Bencao Beiyao: treats tinea capitis, scrofula, hernia masses, bloody hemorrhoids, unilateral swelling, improves vision, and reduces warts.
9. Gangmu Shiyi: removes intestinal grime and disperses accumulation and stagnation.
10. Xiandai Shiyong Zhongyao: treats throat swelling.
Usage and dosage Oral administration: decoct in water, 3-5 qian (0.5-1 liang if fresh); or made into pills or powders. External use: mash and apply.
Precautions
Contraindicated for deficiency-cold diarrhea and dysentery.
1. Yaoxing Lun: pig fruit is used as the guiding drug.
2. Rihua Zi Bencao: good with wine.
3. Bencao Jingshu: contraindicated for tenesmus due to stomach deficiency with no desire to eat, diarrhea with undigested food, and diarrhea due to deficiency-cold and cold-dampness rather than damp toxin.
4. Bencao Congxin: contraindicated when there is no heat in the blood aspect.
Clinical applications
1. Treatment of protozoal dysentery: adults use 15-30 g of Chinese pulsatilla rhizome daily, decocted in water and taken in 3 divided doses, with 7 days as one course of treatment. For more severe cases, another 30-50 g is decocted into 100 ml of medicinal liquid for retention enema, once daily. According to observations of 23 cases, after administration the number of bowel movements and red and white mucus were significantly reduced; the average time for amoebae to turn negative on stool microscopy was 1.4 days; proctoscopy proved that ulcers healed rapidly, and all cases were cured in an average of 7 days. Another report used Chinese pulsatilla decoction to treat several dozen cases, all cured; the longest treatment time was 9 days, the shortest 1 day, with an average of 2 days. In addition, Chinese pulsatilla tissue extract can also be used, injected intramuscularly once daily, with an initial dose of 2 ml, then increased by 0.5 ml each time up to 3.5 ml; after symptoms disappear, continue injection 5-10 times, then reduce to 1-2 times per week, with the whole course lasting 3 months. For severe and chronic cases, additionally use 5-8 ml of Chinese pulsatilla tissue extract plus 60 ml of normal saline for rectal instillation, once daily. Of 23 cases treated, 19 were cured and 4 improved; the average time for symptom disappearance was 4.4 days, and stool conversion to negative was 6.1 days.
2. Treatment of bacillary dysentery: There seem to be relatively few systematic observations on treating bacillary dysentery with single Chinese pulsatilla. It has been reported that a modified Pulsatilla Decoction (Chinese pulsatilla 6 qian, phellodendron 3-6 qian, ash bark 2-3 qian, costus root, tangerine peel, and licorice 1 qian each, added to 400 ml of water and decocted to 200 ml as one dose) was used to treat 123 cases of acute bacillary dysentery or the acute attack type of chronic bacillary dysentery, all taken 1 dose daily, divided between morning and afternoon, for 5-10 days or 7-15 days as one course of treatment. Treatment results: the cure rate was 78%, close to the control group's cure rate of 76% (treated with sulfaguanidine). When observing efficacy according to different intestinal lesions, the catarrhal type had higher efficacy, with a cure rate of 95%, the erosive type had a cure rate of 75%, and the ulcerative type had a cure rate of 56.7%. The erosive and ulcerative types all had a course of treatment of 7-15 days, and at the same time 10% green tea decoction was added for retention enema. In effectively treated cases, the average time for fever reduction was 2.01 days, the disappearance time of abdominal pain, tenesmus, and abdominal tenderness was 6.9 days, the time for bowel movement frequency to return to normal was 10.02 days, the time for stool character to return to normal was 10.1 days, the time for routine stool examination to return to normal was 9.4 days, and the time for stool culture to turn negative was 4.05 days.
3. Treatment of scrofula: Take 5 liang of Chinese pulsatilla, wash it clean and cut it into 1-cun sections, soak it in 2 jin of baijiu, seal it in a jar, and decoct it in a water bath for several boils. After taking it out, place it in a cool, shady place on the ground for 2-3 days, then open the jar, remove the Chinese pulsatilla, and put the liquor into a bottle and seal it for later use. Take it once each morning and evening 1 hour after meals, drinking 1-2 cups each time. Generally 1-2 months is one course of treatment. It is suitable for patients with ruptured scrofula, thin clear pus, and long-unhealed openings. More than 10 cases treated were all effective.
4. Treatment of boils and carbuncles: 2 liang of Chinese pulsatilla, decocted in water, taken for several consecutive days. Routine local treatment is still combined. There are no adverse reactions after taking Chinese pulsatilla; a small number of patients have a mild laxative effect after taking it, which is extremely suitable for patients with excess-heat constipation.
10. Plant culture
Cultural meaning
[Birthday flower]: wood anemone[Birthday]: April 7.
[Flower language]: wit
The pure white anemone, which gives a feeling of purity, was the flower offered to Afrahat, a 4th-century Persian Christian writer. Therefore, the flower meaning of the anemone is intellect, matching that of Afrahat's intellect.
Anyone born under the blessing of this flower possesses outstanding intellect; and not only are they full of knowledge, they also have a delicate sensitivity that perceives people's hearts. If you take the artistic path, perhaps success will come more easily? Someone like you only matches those whose values align with yours.
[Flower meaning]: Love that grows increasingly thin, love of betrayal.
What is the cultivation method of the anemone, and what are its medicinal value and effects?
The anemone has a rhizome, with ovate leaves and blue-purple sepals. Its other names include Naihe grass, powdered milk grass, white-headed grass, old aunt grass, and so on. It is a wild plant that can be cultivated at home; it not only has ornamental value, but is also a medicinal herb. Did you know that? Today we will take flower lovers along to learn about its cultivation method as well as its medicinal value and effects.
Cultivation method of the anemone: Propagation:
Propagation mostly uses the division method, and can also be done by sowing seeds. Division is best done in autumn, while sowing can be done either in spring or autumn. Because the seeds are tiny, sowing must be done carefully, and pot sowing is preferable.
After the seeds are harvested, they should be sown immediately. Open shallow furrows on the bed surface with a spacing of 20 cm and a depth of about 1 cm, scatter the seeds evenly into the furrows, cover with a thin layer of soil, press down lightly, and cover with rice straw. The suitable germination temperature is 18-21 degrees, keep the soil moist, and the germination period is 14-21 days. When the seedlings are 3-5 cm tall, thin them to a plant spacing of 15 cm. The growing temperature is 15-18 degrees (daytime temperature) and 6-9 degrees (night temperature). Seedlings grown from seed can bloom in 2-3 years.
Key cultivation points: 1. Site selection and land preparation:
Choose a sunny, well-drained, deep sandy loam or clay loam. Apply 2500 kg of base fertilizer or barnyard manure, plow deeply 25-30 cm, harrow fine and level, and make beds 1.2-1.5 m wide.
2. Seed propagation:
For direct sowing, sow at the end of March to early April. Open shallow furrows on the bed surface with a spacing of 20 cm and a depth of about 1 cm, scatter the seeds evenly into the furrows, cover with a thin layer of soil, press down lightly, cover with rice straw, and keep the soil moist. When the seedlings are 3-5 cm tall, thin them to a plant spacing of 15 cm.
For the anemone, use a four-toothed hoe to draw shallow furrows on the bed surface, scatter the seeds evenly into the bed, cover with a thin layer of fine soil to completely cover the seeds, press down lightly, and cover with rice straw. After the seedlings emerge, gradually remove the rice straw, and when the seedlings are about 3 cm tall, thin out the weak and overly dense seedlings. In the autumn of the same year or before sprouting the following spring, transplant at a row spacing of 20 cm x 15 cm.
3. Field management
During the seedling stage, loosen the soil with shallow cultivation, and do not damage the root system. After thinning, apply 1 application of dilute manure water, 1500 kg per mu. In autumn, apply 1 application of compost plus superphosphate, and water after fertilizing. When the flower stems bolt and form buds, cut them off promptly to promote root development.
Effects and functions of the anemone:
The anemone has high medicinal value, and as seen from the above herbal monographs of past dynasties, it has been recorded many times. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the anemone has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling the blood, improving eyesight, and reducing growths. There is a poem that says: "Bitter and warm in nature is the anemone, mainly entering the heart meridian and kidney meridian, chiefly treating warm-disease mania, and also dispersing accumulations, masses, and abdominal masses. Goiter, scrofula, and scrofulous sores can all be dispersed, and nosebleeds and incised wounds can also be calmed. Once inguinal hernia is cured, unilateral swelling is healed, and bald sores and rank odors can also be treated. Abdominal pain, bone disease, and toothache are stopped, and red dysentery can have its toxicity cleared. Intestinal grime can be scraped away completely, and assisted with wine its effect is especially effective."
1. Effects of the anemone
The anemone is the dried root of the anemone, a plant in the Ranunculaceae family. The anemone is also called Maoguduo flower, old woman flower, and old man flower. The anemone has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling the blood and stopping dysentery, and drying dampness and killing insects. The anemone mainly treats heat-toxin dysentery, nosebleeds, blood hemorrhoids, vaginal discharge, genital itching, carbuncles, and scrofula. Those with deficiency-cold diarrhea and dysentery should avoid taking the anemone.
2. Functions of the anemone
The anemone is bitter in taste and cold in nature; it enters the stomach and large intestine meridians, and has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling the blood and stopping dysentery, and drying dampness and killing insects. It mainly treats heat-toxin dysentery, nosebleeds, blood hemorrhoids, vaginal discharge, genital itching, carbuncles, and scrofula.
The functions and effects of the anemone have been meritorious since very early times, and there are clear records in many of our medical books. The records explain in detail that the anemone enters the Foot Yangming meridian in summer heat and the Hand Yangming meridian, and can disperse downward, remove heat and cold blood, and many other functions. Those effective functions and effects all come from rich clinical experience and have been identified through pharmacognosy research.
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