Fall in love with the sad you-- gentian

Gentian is a plant of Gentianaceae. Herbs perennial, 30-60 cm tall; roots yellow-white, rope-shaped, more than 20 cm long. Stem erect, stout, often purplish brown, scabrous. Leaves opposite, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 3-7 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, with 3-5 veins, acute or acuminate, sessile, margin and lower main veins scabrous. Flowers clustered in stem ends or leaf axils; bracts lanceolate, subequal to calyx; calyx campanulate, 2.5-3 cm long, lobes striate-lanceolate, nearly as long as calyx tube; Corolla tube-campanulate, blue-purple, 4-5 cm long, lobes ovate, pointed, pleated triangular, sparsely dicentate; stamens 5, filament base broadly winged; style short, stigma 2-lobed. Capsule moment orbicular, stipitate; seeds striate, margin winged. Distributed in Korea, the Soviet Union, Japan, and China's Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Zhejiang and other places. Raw meadows, thickets, or forest margins.

Gentian

Growth habits:

Seed germination requires higher temperature and humidity, proper light, about 25 ℃, can germinate in a week, less than 20 ℃ half a month to germinate, seed germination rate is 60-80%. The seed is not resistant to storage and has a short life span of 2.5 years and a suitable life of one year. The suitable temperature for fertility is 20-28 ℃, 15 ℃ at night, and it is disadvantageous to grow when it exceeds 30 ℃. It blossoms and bears fruit in the second year after sowing. Early blooming in early August, flowering for 50 days, open day and closed at night. Like sufficient light, flower light is needed in seed germination, weak light is needed in seedling stage, and natural light is needed in seedling growth period. The moisture requirement is moderate, and the appropriate soil temperature is 60-80% of the field capacity. The dry-wet balance in the whole growth period is beneficial to the growth and development.

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Functional indications:

If the root is used in medicine, it can remove the liver and gallbladder fire. Purge the liver and gallbladder with solid fire and remove the scorching dampness and heat. Treatment of liver meridian heat, epileptic mania, Japanese encephalitis, headache, red eyes, sore throat, jaundice, hot dysentery, carbuncle swelling and sores, scrotum swelling and pain, pudendal dampness and itching. For damp-heat anthrax, swelling and itching, subband, eczema itching, deafness, flank pain, bitter mouth, convulsions.

Gentian

"Zheng Zhi Materia Medica" contains "Kaishi Materia Medica" and said: "Today, according to this note, the leaf is like Solanum nigrum, the taste is as bitter as gallbladder, because it is famous." This is the explanation of the name "gentian". The Compendium of Materia Medica also uses this term.

In ancient times, the house of prescription was often mystified. In order to show how valuable a certain medicine was, it was often called Longdaofeng, such as "dragon beard" and "Phoenix tail". In fact, it was because its roots were as bitter as bile, and the leaves were very similar to Solanum nigrum, and each chose the name "gentian". As for the name "grass gentian", it is to show that this plant is not a real gentian, but a recommended flower.