What does Croton tree look like?

Croton tree is a kind of tree widely grown in valleys, streams, wild and other places. It is distributed in many places in China. What does croton tree look like?

What does a croton tree look like?

Evergreen trees, 6-10 m tall. Young branches green, sparsely stellate pilose or almost glabrous; biennial branches gray-green, with inconspicuous yellow fine longitudinal cracks. Leaves alternate, veins triple-veined; petiole 2 - 6 cm long; leaf blade ovate or oblong-ovate, 5 - 13 cm long, 2.5-6 cm wide, apex acuminate, base rounded or broadly cuneate, 2 glands near petiole, leaf margin sparsely serrate, both sides sparsely stellate hairy, main veins 3-out; stipules caducous.

2. The efficacy of croton

Croton is the seed of croton tree, the table is gray yellow, the gas is very light, there is a light and spicy smell, with a certain toxicity, and contains a lot of oil. Croton is spicy and hot in nature. It can enter the stomach meridian and large intestine meridian. It has many effects such as cold accumulation in the lower abdomen and detumescence by water. It is usually used for the treatment of adverse symptoms such as abdominal pain and phlegm. It also has certain therapeutic effects on malignant sores and scabies of human ash. However, croton this Chinese medicine toxicity is very strong, can not be eaten directly, in peacetime will be made into croton cream and then used for the treatment of human diseases.

Croton can treat human asthma and tracheitis, usually treatment can prepare an apple, with a knife to dig out its fruit core, and then take a croton into the small hole, and then the small hole with apple pulp cover, re-entry pot steaming, after boiling for an hour, and then take out cooling, take out croton do not, directly makeup eat apples, drink soup, can asthma and tracheitis symptoms significantly reduced.

The croton we often say is not actually a bean, but the seed of this croton tree. If you want to harvest croton, you can plant croton trees properly.