It means to cure the wound-- Bletilla striata

Bletilla striata, alternately leaf drunken fish grass, drunken fish grass genus. Leaves alternate on branches; leaves on flower branches or short branches very small, elliptic or Obovate. Flowers form clusters or panicles; flowers fragrant; calyx campanulate, calyx lobes triangular-lanceolate; Corolla purplish blue; stamens inserted in the middle of the inner wall of Corolla tube, filaments very short, anthers oblong; ovary long-ovate, glabrous, stigma ovate. Cucurbit oval; many seeds, narrowly oblong, grayish brown, with short wings around. The flowering period is from May to July and the fruiting period is from July to October.

Bletilla striata

Muye drunken fish grassland is produced in China and is widely distributed in the provinces of the Yangtze River Basin. Produced in southern Shaanxi, Lianyungang, Nantong, Nanjing, Jurong, Yixing, Liyang, Shanghai, southeastern Gansu, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan and Guizhou.

The part of the grass had no obvious trunk, clump growth and strong branching ability, and the root system was well developed, especially the growth of the main root was almost equal to that of the aboveground part. The slope direction of the growth zone is south slope or southeast slope, and the slope is 250-350. The annual precipitation is less than 350mm, the annual average temperature is 5 ℃, the frost-free period is 120 days, the climate is dry and windy, the air humidity is low, the soil layer is very thin and even the rock is bare, and the growth condition is very poor. However, Spartina alternifolia grows sturdily and luxuriantly, and it is not damaged because the livestock refuse to feed, and it has a strong ability to survive.

Bletilla striata

Garden value:

Mutual leaf drunken fish grass is a kind of terrestrial orchid, the purplish red flowers are orderly, set off by green leaves, dignified and elegant. Flowers also have white, blue, yellow and pink colors, can be arranged in flower beds, should be planted in flower paths, rocks or ground cover plants under sparse forests, or can be watched indoors in pots.

Edible value:

Tubers contain mucus and starch, which can be used as paste or medicine.

Bletilla striata

Plant culture:

Volume 9 of the Notes of Xiangzu by Wang Shifu of the Qing Dynasty: "Yu Bingzi made an envoy to Shu, where he saw mutual leaves and drunken fish and grass flowers on the mountain road, because of the west wind and the rain, and opened the words of drunken fish and grass flowers all over the empty mountains." Zhao Shuli's Golden characters: "this helpful young man had experience and didn't ask me what to do, so he put the clay gold at the bottom of the bowl, poured some water, and studied it with mutual leaves and drunken fish grass."