The humble grass hanging by the roadside is more beautiful than a waterfall.

Weeping potted grass is also known as sunflower, snake grass, dog tooth grass and stone vegetables. It is a succulent plant of the genus Sedum of the family Sedum, with creeping stems, easy rooting, thin sterile branches and flower stems, creeping and rooting on nodes, until below the inflorescence, 10-25 cm long. Leaves whorled, leaves oblanceolate to oblong, 15-28 mm long and 3-7 mm wide.

Flowering stems slender, prostrate, rooting at nodes, verticillate, leaves oblanceolate to oblong, Cymes few, flowers sessile; sepals lanceolate to oblong, petals yellow, lanceolate to oblong, scales cuneate-square, seeds ovate, flowering in May-July, fruiting in August.

Potted grass generally grows in rock gaps on hillsides, ravines and wet places by the river. it is very easy to cultivate and has lax environmental requirements. It can be planted before and after the house, and can also be potted, usually propagated by ramets. The hanging potted grass is so beautiful!

Allusions to medicine:

According to legend, at the foot of Weifeng in the Qing Dynasty, there was a farmer surnamed Zeng, who was 40 years old and had one child each. He lived a good life. One day, the man had a sudden abdominal pain, urgent and severe, and his stool was thick with mucus. More than 20 times a day, he urgently asked a local doctor for treatment. He was diagnosed with dysentery, but the medication was ineffective. One day, the daughter pulled up a basket of pig grass and came back with a lot of potted grass in it. Zeng remembered that the grass could cure the diarrhea of pigs, so he asked his wife to cook a bowl of porridge for himself. As soon as I ate two bowls of abdominal pain, I took it for 3 days, the mucus and blood stopped completely, and dysentery was cured. People in the neighborhood who suffer from the same dysentery also eat porridge with this grass, and all are well. Spread ten, ten hundred, many people know that Tripterygium has a magical effect in treating dysentery. Since then, it has been spread among the people that the herb can treat diseases such as jaundice.

The efficacy and function of weeping potted grass:

1. The effect of clearing heat and promoting dampness, detoxification and detumescence, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.

2. For water and fire scald, you can use fresh potted grass to wash the juice and apply it.

3, for carbuncle swelling at the beginning, in addition to decoction for internal use, at the same time with fresh grass washed mash external application, but also can reduce carbuncle swelling.

4. it is good at relieving snake venom and is a common folk medicine for the treatment of snake bites. It can be used only with half a jin of fresh grass, washed with cold boiled water, smashed and strangled juice, once or twice a day; it can also be taken internally with Scutellaria barbata, wild chrysanthemum, Bidens pinnata, plantain, raw rhubarb and other herbs, and washed and mashed with fresh grass for external application.

5. Trifolium przewalskii is used alone to treat infectious hepatitis (including acute icteric hepatitis, acute non-icteric hepatitis, and persistent hepatitis, active stage of chronic hepatitis). And can make the patient's bitter mouth, bad appetite, yellow red urine and other damp-heat symptoms reduced or eliminated.