What are the effects and functions of purple jasmine (Thunder flower) commonly seen in rural areas? How do you plant seeds?

When I was a child, I often saw purple jasmine in the countryside. at that time, I didn't know its scientific name. Some people call it rouge flower, some people call it mineflower, because its seeds are like mines, although they are inconspicuous, but the roots and leaves of purple jasmine can be used medicinally. What are the effects and effects of purple jasmine? How do you plant seeds? What are the effects of the root of purple jasmine on men?

A brief introduction to Mirabilis

1. Introduction of purple jasmine

Purple jasmine has many names, different regions have different names, such as rouge, cooking flowers, Thunder flowers, grass jasmine, night flowers, bath flowers, etc., belong to the purple jasmine family. Although the name contains "jasmine", it is not jasmine.

2. Morphological characteristics.

Purple jasmine is a perennial herb with a height of about 1 meter, with leaves shaped like an ovate triangle, opposite, emerald green, with light-colored veins; flowers are trumpet-like, petals 5-lobed, with a diameter of 2 to 3 cm and a length of 4 to 5 cm, mostly bright red or purple, with white, pink, yellow and complex colors; the fruit is hard, black, and looks like a landmine, so it is also called "mineflower".

Purple jasmine blossoms from 4pm to 10:00 the next morning, so it is called "04:00 flower" in English. It often blossoms when people bathe and cook in the evening, so it has nicknames for "bath flower" and "cooking flower". The flower withered the next morning. Because of the slender purple jasmine tube, it is difficult for large nocturnal Lepidoptera to absorb honey, and its pollination and pollination are generally done by diamondback moth.

Second, the efficacy and function of purple jasmine.

1. Ornamental value

Purple jasmine is a kind of flower plant with extensive management, which is easy to cultivate, has high ornamental value and has a faint fragrance of jasmine, so it is a good green plant.

2. Medicinal value

Efficacy 1: the roots and leaves of purple jasmine can be used as medicine, with the effects of diuresis, purging heat, promoting blood circulation and dispersing blood stasis. In some folk prescriptions, purple jasmine can be used as medicine to treat irregular menstruation, urinary tract infection, diabetes, falling injury, prostatitis, accessory inflammation, cervicitis, mastitis, carbuncle, amenorrhea, leucorrhea and other symptoms.

Efficacy 2: purple jasmine fruit research water external application can treat skin ulcers; purple jasmine seed white powder (also known as endosperm) can treat facial stains, acne, skin yellowing blisters, broken yellow water can also be used as cosmetic powder.

Efficacy 3: purple jasmine flowers can be used for colitis, abdominal distension, diarrhea.

Efficacy 4: purple jasmine stems and leaves to treat sores, swelling furuncle, with fresh purple jasmine smashed package or fried water external washing.

3. Usage and dosage of purple jasmine

Oral administration: fried soup, 15g / 25g (25g / 25g fresh).

External use: tamping.

4. Taboos on the consumption of Mirabilis

The roots, stems and seeds of purple jasmine all have the effect of diarrhea, which should not be taken by pregnant women, so as not to have a certain impact on the fetus and pregnant women themselves.

5. Folk prescription of purple jasmine

(1) Leucorrhea: stew one or two white flower purple jasmine root, five-coin white hibiscus and five-coin white peony together.

(2) to cure red avalanche: eat two pairs of safflower purple jasmine root, one or two red chicken crown root, one or two dizzy medicine, stewed pig's feet with five-coin rabbit ear wind.

(3) treatment of carbuncle gangrene and back sores: a fresh purple jasmine root, peeled and washed, mashed with a little brown sugar, applied to the affected area and changed twice a day.

Note: if you need to take purple jasmine, it is best to consult a professional doctor before using it.

Third, the effect of purple jasmine root on men

According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, it is recorded that purple jasmine root can "treat breast carbuncle and white turbidity." Baizhuo, also known as dripping white, is caused by chronic prostatitis after urine dripping white, long-term so will have a great impact on sexual function. Therefore, purple jasmine has a certain therapeutic effect on male prostatitis. If you need to take it, it is best to consult a professional doctor before use.

Fourth, how to plant the seeds of purple jasmine?

Purple jasmine is a kind of plant that is very easy to cultivate and can be managed extensively. If there is sunshine, water and soil, it will grow well, so it is very easy to sow and reproduce. The seeds will germinate about two weeks after sowing.

1. Soil

Purple jasmine is not strict with the soil, and this plant has strong adaptability. If you want to grow better, it is better to use fertile soil with good drainage, which can be cultivated in open field or potted.

2. Climate

Purple jasmine likes a warm and humid climate. It is not hardy and grows best in slightly shaded places.

3. Purple jasmine potted plant

Purple jasmine can soak the seeds in water for an hour before sowing, so that the seed will have a higher germination rate after burying the soil with water, of course, it is OK not to soak it, and as long as it is kept at a constant temperature, this kind of flower can be sowed all the year round and can be managed extensively.

4. Open field cultivation

In the south in mid-late March, and in the north in mid-late April, direct seeding in the open field, sowing 3-4 seeds in one hole, and selecting the robust ones to keep 2 plants in each hole after emergence. The management is relatively extensive, except for applying some basic fertilizer during soil preparation, there is generally no need to apply fertilizer, and if the weather is not dry, there is no need to water.

If you want to get different colors of purple jasmine, you can plant several colors together.

I did not expect that there were so many effects of purple jasmine on the roadside when I was a child, especially for gynecological diseases, and it could also play a role in repelling mosquitoes in summer. if you see purple jasmine outside, you might as well leave its seeds and go back to planting!