What are the uses and benefits of Alocasia macrorrhizos?
Alocasia macrorrhizos is a common ornamental plant in tropical and subtropical regions. It is a perennial evergreen herbaceous plant and has medicinal value. Let us take a look together at what the uses of Alocasia macrorrhizos are.
The benefits of Alocasia macrorrhizos for the human body
Purifying the air
The green leaves of Alocasia macrorrhizos can absorb carbon dioxide from the air and release oxygen at the same time. Alocasia macrorrhizos also has the effect of removing dust from the air. Nowadays people pay more and more attention to air quality. After renovation, there are always many harmful substances left indoors, and Alocasia macrorrhizos can effectively absorb toxic gases such as formaldehyde.
It can effectively improve the home environment, purify the air at home, and bring people a fresh feeling. Breathing fresh air that is different from the turbid smog outside, the whole person becomes much more refreshed.
Medicinal value
Alocasia macrorrhizos has the functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting qi and relieving pain, and dissipating nodules and reducing swelling. Alocasia macrorrhizos can also treat malarial fevers, severe vomiting and diarrhea, red and white vaginal discharge, carbuncles and swellings, atrophic rhinitis, intestinal typhoid, rheumatic pain, hernia, scrofula, boils, scabies, and snake and dog bites, etc.
Seeing these traditional Chinese medicinal values of Alocasia macrorrhizos, do you still think its toxicity outweighs its benefits?
The home feng shui role of Alocasia macrorrhizos
Beautifying the environment
The leaves of Alocasia macrorrhizos are very large, and it is very eye-catching when placed in a room. Looking at its lush green leaves, I believe many people's worries will be swept away. Using it to adjust indoor colors and set off the home atmosphere is a very good choice.
This kind of ornamental plant is often used as the background of home scenes, so without much thought we also know how suitable this plant with an extremely strong presence, Alocasia macrorrhizos, is for setting off a grand home background. Therefore, whether it is a European-style or Chinese-style home, Alocasia macrorrhizos is quite suitable to place.
Beautifying the environment
Attracting wealth and averting disaster
Placing some thick-leaved or large-leaved evergreen plants in the prosperous direction of the home can achieve the effect of generating prosperity. Because Alocasia macrorrhizos belongs to the type of plant that does not leak wealth, placing it in the wealth position will have a very good wealth-attracting effect.
We know that placing green plants in the home requires great care. Plants with pointed leaves should not be placed, because from the perspective of feng shui, that can easily lead to loss of wealth. According to feng shui masters, if you want to place this kind of plant, you need to tie it with a red ribbon, which can make up for the feng shui effect of losing wealth.
But this is only a small part. For most people, the plants placed at home are still better with round leaves, and naturally the larger and thicker the leaves, the better. Therefore, plants with large, generous and thick leaves like Alocasia macrorrhizos are quite suitable for home placement.
There is a saying circulating in the world: Alocasia macrorrhizos is unanimously recommended by designers as the overlord of large living rooms, and it is also the best partner for the culturally rich East Asian style and the luxurious and grand American pastoral style. In fact, the styles suitable for this overlord are far more than just Southeast Asian style and American pastoral style; Chinese style and the like are also very suitable for it.
Because the leaves of Alocasia macrorrhizos are very large, it is very eye-catching when placed in a room. Using it to adjust colors and set off the home atmosphere is a very good choice. This kind of ornamental plant is often used as the background of home scenes, so without much thought we also know how suitable this plant with an extremely strong presence, Alocasia macrorrhizos, is for setting off a grand home background. Therefore, Chinese style is also quite suitable for placing Alocasia macrorrhizos.
Precautions for growing Alocasia macrorrhizos:
However, the white sap in the stem is toxic, and the water dripping down is also toxic. Accidental contact with or ingestion of its sap will cause discomfort in the throat and mouth, and in severe cases can also cause suffocation, leading to death from cardiac paralysis. Skin contact with its sap can cause itching or strong irritation, and eye contact with the sap can cause severe conjunctivitis, or even blindness.
People should minimize direct contact with Alocasia macrorrhizos, and families with children had better not grow it.
The above is a related introduction to the uses and benefits of Alocasia macrorrhizos. I hope everyone will like today's article.