The difference between geranium and geranium

The names of geranium and old crane grass are very similar, but they are different plants, and many people can't tell the difference between them. Let's take a look at the difference between geranium and old crane grass.

First, the introduction of old crane grass

The source of the old crane grass is the aboveground part of the cattle seedling or the old crane grass, which is harvested in summer and autumn. It is better to have many leaves, green color and strong fragrance.

The stems and leaves are square, thin and twisted, 10-20cm long, 1-2mm in diameter, yellowish green or purplish red on the surface, longitudinally angled and pubescent, with adventitious roots on the nodes; brittle, easy to break, and the cross section is often hollow.

Leaves opposite, gray-green or green-brown, wrinkled, flattened and reniform or subcordate, 1-3cm long, 1.5-3cm wide, margin crenate, petiole slender, 4-7cm long. Cymes axillary, Corolla light blue or purple, 2-lipped, as long as 2cm. The smell of rub is fragrant and the taste is slightly bitter.

Introduction of geranium

Herbs perennial, 30-50 cm tall. Rhizome straight, stout, with fascicled fibrous slender whisker roots, distally surrounded by residual basal stipules. Stem erect, solitary, furrowed, pseudo-bifurcate branched, inverted pubescent, sometimes distally mixed with spreading glandular hairs.

Leaves basal and cauline leaves opposite; stipules ovate-triangular or upper narrowly lanceolate, 5-8 mm long and 1-3 mm wide, basal leaves and lower leaves of stem with long stalks, 2-3 times as long as leaf blades, inverted pubescent, upper stem petiole gradually shorter or subsessile Basal leaf blade round-reniform, 3-5 cm long and 4-9 cm wide, 5-parted to 2 × 3, lobes Obovate-cuneate, lower entire, upper irregularly toothed, cauline leaves 3-lobed to 3-cuspidate, lobes long-ovate or broadly cuneate, distally toothed-lobed, apex long acuminate, surface shortly strigose, abaxially strigillose along veins.

Both of them can treat rheumatism arthralgia, but geranium can also treat numbness, diarrhea, dysentery and other diseases, while old crane grass can also resist virus and protect the liver. Therefore, they are not the same kind of traditional Chinese medicine, so be careful not to be confused in practical application.