How do family values affect family happiness?
Introduction: Salvia is an annual herbaceous plant in the Lamiaceae family, genus Salvia. The stems are upright, the plant height is 30-100 cm, the plant grows in clumps, and the plant is covered with fine hairs. The stems are four-angled and hairy, with the lower part slightly woody. The leaves are opposite, long elliptical, with obvious green veins, hairless on both sides, and glandular dots beneath. The fibrous roots are dense. The terminal raceme can reach 15 cm or more in length; the bracts are relatively small, blue-purple, and wrap the flower buds before blooming; the pedicels are densely covered with blue-purple fine hairs. The calyx is bell-shaped, blue-purple, and the veins on the outside of the calyx are covered with glandular fine hairs. Flowering period is June-September.
Salvia
Salvia is native to southern Europe and the Mediterranean coastal region. In China it is mainly distributed in Zhejiang, southern Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Hubei, Fujian, Taiwan, China, Guangdong, and Guangxi; it grows on hillsides, roadsides, shaded grassy areas, watersides, and under forest shade.
Salvia is often cultivated as a kitchen herb or medicinal herb, and can also be used to extract essential oil, make sachets, and so on.
Salvia
Main variety:
Salvia - many-leaflet variety Zhusha Cao (Guanxian, Sichuan), Chun Danshen (Sichuan). This variety differs from Salvia in that the leaves are dense on the lower part of the stem, up to 13 cm long, once or 2-3 times pinnately compound, with many leaflets, small, and variable in shape; the middle lobe of the lower lip of the corolla is deeply concave, the 2 lobes are forked apart, and the edges are distinctly toothed. It is mainly distributed in central Sichuan and central Guangdong, China. It grows on grassy slopes, riversides, and in thickets, at an altitude of 750-1200 m.
Main value:
Food: The leaves have antibacterial, sterilizing, anti-toxin, detoxifying, and plague-dispelling effects, and can be eaten as a cold salad; the stems, leaves, and flowers can be brewed as tea, which can cleanse fats in the body, help circulation, and beautify the skin. They can also be used as a seasoning, but should not be consumed in large amounts over a long period (because they contain thujone, and long-term heavy drinking will produce toxins in the body). [5] [7]
Medicinal use: [Medicinal parts] Flowers, leaves [Nature, flavor, and meridian tropism] Bitter, slightly cold, non-toxic. [Zangqi says] Neutral. [Functions and indications] Scrofula with alternating chills and fever, and dysentery with pus and blood that does not stop. The white-flowered one mainly treats white vaginal discharge, and the red-flowered one mainly treats red vaginal discharge (Bielu). Mainly treats malaria and water swelling (Shizhen).
Salvia
Other uses:
Essential oil and its derivatives are used in daily-use fragrances, and Salvia can also be made into sachets.
In landscaping, it can be used as a potted plant and for the arrangement of flower beds, flower borders, and garden scenic spots. At the same time, it can embellish the sides of rocks and gaps at forest edges, appearing quiet and secluded. Placed in front of natural buildings and in small courtyards, because of its strong adaptability, it can also be planted along watersides. The effect of group planting is very good, suitable for arrangement in parks, scenic area forest-edge slopes, a corner of lawns, and river and lake banks, both greening the city and providing fragrance.
Plant culture:
Salvia flower language: family happiness, family values.
Purple Salvia -- wisdom
Red Salvia -- the heart is burning
Blue Salvia -- rationality
Pineapple Salvia -- passionate longing
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