What are the other names of the Chinese herb Abutilon indicum? Detailed explanation of the key points of its cultivation techniques

Abutilon indicum is a Chinese medicinal herb with the effects of resolving phlegm, clearing heat, relieving cough and reducing swelling, and it is generally used quite often for colds and bruises. Abutilon indicum is the whole plant of Abutilon indicum, a plant in the Malvaceae family, and is commonly found in China's Fujian, Taiwan, China, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places. Let's take a look below at what are the other names of the Chinese herb Abutilon indicum? What are the key points of its cultivation techniques?

1. What are the other names of the Chinese herb Abutilon indicum?

The other names of the Chinese herb Abutilon indicum are Jinhuacao, Modangcao, Erxiangcao, Maolongzi, Molongzi, Momuzi, Mopencao, Qingma, Baima, Moguzi, Molongzi, Niuguzimo, Mopanguo, Fupenzi, Banjiemo, Mozaicao, Jiachazai, Niuxiangcao, Ailongdidu, Molongcao, Mopanhua, Leizicao, Milanacao, Maozidun, Daofucao, Simicao, Yanizaduncao. Abutilon indicum likes to grow in areas below 800 m in altitude, such as plains, sandy land, seaside, hillsides, open fields, river valleys and roadsides.

There are records about Abutilon indicum in many medical classics:

1. "Shengcaoyao Xingbei Yao"

Abutilon indicum disperses wind and blood heat. For tinnitus and deafness, it can also be stewed with chicken and meat.

2. "Lingnan Caiyao Lu"

Abutilon indicum can raise the clear and descend the turbid, open the orifices and invigorate blood, and also save the hand spread and sores.

3. "Bencao Qiuyuan"

Abutilon indicum strengthens the spleen and stops diarrhea; it is pounded and boiled together with rice and eaten with yellow sugar.

4. "Guangdong Chinese Medicine"

Abutilon indicum treats vexing pain of the small intestine, residual dribbling due to kidney deficiency, stabbing pain during urination or turbid urine, mumps, and bone-steaming consumptive heat.

5. Guangzhou Army "Manual of Common Chinese Herbal Medicines"

Abutilon indicum disperses wind and clears heat, raises the clear and descends the turbid. It treats high fever from colds that does not subside, epidemic mumps, deafness, tinnitus, thyroid swelling and nocturnal emission.

2. What are the key points of the cultivation techniques for Abutilon indicum?

1. Soil requirements

Abutilon indicum likes to grow in soil with deep soil layers, fertility, good looseness, strong air permeability and good drainage.

2. Seed propagation

Abutilon indicum is generally propagated by seed; after harvesting mature and plump seeds, store them, and sow when the climate warms up and all things revive in March of the following year. When sowing, pay attention to the plant spacing; generally, holes are opened at 30 by 30, with three to four seeds sown in each hole, covered with a thin layer of soil, and then remember to water to keep the soil moist. Under normal circumstances, they can sprout and emerge in about seven to ten days.

3. Field management

When the Abutilon indicum seedlings grow to 5 cm, thinning should be carried out, leaving one or two strong seedlings in each hole. After thinning, topdressing should be carried out once with a thin fertilizer, and thereafter once a month for cultivating, weeding and topdressing. After fertilizing, soil should be hilled up; if it is the rainy season, attention should be paid to drainage and waterlogging prevention, so as to avoid root rot caused by water accumulation and the death of the whole plant.