Can motherwort, a traditional Chinese medicine, be eaten often? Where is the origin? How to plant it? What are the harvesting and initial processing methods?

Motherwort, also known as Jiuwei, Kuncao, Jiuzhonglou, Mica, Sendi, has the effect of diuresis, detumescence and uterine contraction. it is an important medicine used by doctors of all ages to treat gynecological diseases. Can motherwort be eaten often? Where is the origin? How to plant it? What are the harvesting and initial processing methods? It is reported that motherwort is produced all over China; it is distributed in Russia, Korea, Japan, tropical Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Can motherwort be eaten often?

1. Motherwort should not be eaten often or in large quantities, but should be used according to the specific situation. You can stop eating as soon as you recover from the disease.

2. The blood-activating function of motherwort granules is very effective, but the dosage and usage of each kind of medicine and the length of time are not the same, and motherwort granules are the same. it is not advisable for many people to blindly eat food for a long time without understanding the nature of the medicine. It is best to use motherwort according to your physical condition, not all the time.

How to plant motherwort?

1. Precocious motherwort can be sowed in autumn, spring or summer, and winter motherwort must be sowed in autumn. It is suitable for spring sowing from Rain Water to sting (from late February to early March). In the north, summer sowing is used to make use of summer leisure land, and the yield is not high after Grain in Beard harvested wheat. Autumn sowing is mostly adopted in low temperature areas, and the soil is the best when the soil is moist from the Autumn Equinox to Cold Dew (from late September to early October). The choice of sowing date in autumn is directly related to the output and quality of products. It is premature and vulnerable to aphids. Too late, affected by low temperature and dry soil, it could not germinate that year, but the Spring Equinox could not germinate until Qingming Festival the next year, and the germination was irregular and irregular, and most of them could not sprout and blossom.

2. Replenishing seedlings: the height of motherwort seedlings is about 5 cm, and then it is carried out for 2 or 3 times, and when the seedling height is 15 cm, the seedlings are fixed. The seeder took the wrong plant to keep the seedling, the distance between the plant was about 10 cm, and the hole seeder left 2-3 seedlings per hole. When it is found that there is a lack of seedlings, it should be transplanted and replanted in time.

3. Intermediate ploughing and weeding: spring sowing requires ploughing and weeding for 3 times, when the seedling height is about 5 cm, 15 cm and 30 cm, respectively. Summer sowing is carried out timely according to plant growth. The method of autumn sowing is the same as that of spring sowing when the seedlings grow 3 or 4 true leaves for the first time, and then three times in the following year. When ploughing and weeding, ploughing should not be too deep, so as not to hurt the roots. In the seedling stage, ploughing should protect the seedlings, prevent them from being oppressed by clods, and do not touch the stems of the seedlings. After the last ploughing, cultivate the soil to protect the roots.

4. Reasonable topdressing: motherwort should be topdressing once every time after ploughing and weeding, it is better to apply nitrogen fertilizer, urea, ammonium sulfate, cake fertilizer or human and animal manure can be used. Attention should be paid to watering when topdressing, and the fertilizer should not be too thick so as not to hurt the seedlings. Especially in the application of cake fertilizer, it is emphasized that after it is broken, it should be thoroughly cooked with water and diluted with water before application. When Rain Water is concentrated in the rainy season, to prevent stagnant water, we should pay attention to timely drainage.

5. Pest control: motherwort disease has powdery mildew. 1000-fold solution of 25% rust powder is used to control before and after the disease. Sclerotinia sclerotiorum can be sprayed with Rhizoctonia solani 500 or 300 times Bordeaux or 40% Sclerotinia sclerotiorum 500 times, as well as mosaic disease. Insect pests are aphids, which occur in spring and autumn, and should be controlled with evaluation preparation. Small tigers are caught and killed in the morning or trapped by heaps of grass.

What are the harvesting and primary processing methods of motherwort?

Motherwort harvesting method:

Motherwort is used as a medicine for the whole grass, and the fruit is used as a medicine; when the flowers bloom in late summer and early autumn, the whole grass on the ground is cut and dried in the sun; the fruit is harvested and dried in autumn to remove impurities. The whole herb and seed of motherwort harvested are all medicinal materials, so the harvest date should be determined according to the purpose of production.

The main results are as follows: 1. For the purpose of producing whole grass, the branches and leaves should be harvested when the branches and leaves grow vigorously and each plant reaches 2/3 in bloom, the autumn sower should be harvested around Grain in Beard (late May to mid-June), the spring sower should be harvested during the period from Lesser Heat to Greater Heat (mid-July), and the summer sower should be harvested at 2/3 blossoms at different sowing dates. The harvest time should be carried out after the dew is dry on a sunny day, and the ground should be cut off.

2. For the purpose of producing seed seeds, the flowers of the whole plant should be faded and the fruit should be harvested after the fruit is fully ripe. In view of the fact that the fruit is ripe and easy to fall off, it should be threshed in the field immediately after harvest and assembled in time so as not to lose and reduce yield. you can also place a beating bucket or a large winnowing basket in the field, and the whole grass can be slapped, so that the fruit that is easy to fall will fall, and the seeds will be separated and transported back separately.

Primary processing of motherwort:

After harvest, motherwort should be dried or dried in time to avoid accumulation and rain in the drying process, so as to prevent its fermentation or leaves from yellowing and affecting its quality. After preliminary threshing in the field, the plant was transported to the sun field for further drying after 3-5 days, then threshing, sieving the coarse residue of the leaves, drying and blowing clean.