This rural wild grass relieves phlegm and stops coughs, sells for 50 yuan per jin and has become a cash crop for farmers. Do you know it?

In rural fields, this kind of wild grass is often seen. The plant is upright and unbranched, can reach more than 1 m tall, usually blooms in July-August, and the flowers are purple or blue. When the root is dug out, it looks like a carrot. Farmers all call it shashen (glehnia/adenophora root). It is a wild grass, and its root can also be eaten. It also has good medicinal value and is very effective for clearing the lungs, relieving phlegm and stopping coughs. Today, the editor will introduce it.

Shashen is divided into nan shashen (Adenophora stricta) and bei shashen (Glehnia littoralis). In some places it is also called paoshen, pao shashen, etc. The names differ from place to place. I wonder what it is called where you are. It generally grows on rural grasslands at an altitude of 600-700 m or on open hillsides and under forests at 1000-3200 m. Some also grow in low mountain grass clusters and rock crevices in rural areas. It is distributed throughout the country. I wonder if you have seen it?

Shashen has high nutritional value. According to modern research, nan shashen contains alkaloids, volatile oils, etc., and has effects such as lowering body temperature, relieving pain and strengthening the heart; bei shashen is rich in flavonoids, saponins, etc., and has effects such as relieving phlegm, resisting true stone and strengthening the heart. After the root is boiled to remove the bitter taste, it can be eaten. The eating methods are also very simple. Generally, farmers use it to pan-fry shashen, or serve it cold dressed or in soup. It has high nutritional value and is delicious. I wonder if you have eaten it? Report

Shashen is also a very good traditional Chinese medicine, using the root as medicine. Shashen is sweet and moistening, slightly cold, can tonify lung yin, moisten and nourish lung dryness, and can also clear lung heat. It can be used to treat yin deficiency cough, lung heat dry cough, dry cough with little phlegm, dry throat, and hoarseness or coughing blood and other conditions. It can nourish stomach yin and clear stomach heat, and can be used to treat symptoms such as dry mouth and dry throat, constipation, little appetite and vomiting, red tongue with little fluid caused by stomach yin deficiency with heat. Shashen can also improve cellular immunity and nonspecific immunity, and inhibit humoral immunity. It has the function of regulating immune balance. It also has the effect of treating heart and spleen pain, headache, and women's leukorrhea. It mainly treats tracheitis, whooping cough, lung heat cough, yellow and thick phlegm and other conditions.

Because of shashen's good effects, many farmers have now begun large-scale artificial cultivation. Generally, seeds are broadcast in spring and harvested in autumn. The aboveground parts and fibrous roots are removed, the coarse bark is scraped off, and it is dried in the sun immediately, and then it can be sold as commercial traditional Chinese medicine. The market price is around 50 yuan per jin, making it a cash crop in the vast countryside. Many farmers have become rich by growing it. I wonder if anyone where you are also grows it. Everyone is welcome to leave comments and exchange views.