Is Houttuynia cordata root?

The scientific name of Houttuynia cordata Thunb can be used as medicine. It has a special smell and is a big wild vegetable in Sichuan and Gui. women, children, the old and the weak love to eat, with strong local characteristics, many people do not know whether Houttuynia cordata and Houttuynia cordata are a kind of plant in the end, let's take a look!

Is Houttuynia cordata root?

Houttuynia cordata root is actually houttuynia. Houttuynia cordata Thunb, also known as Herba Houttuyniae, Herba Houttuyniae, is produced in the provinces south of the Yangtze River Basin in China. As early as the late 1980s, Gaoping Town, Guanghan City, Sichuan Province introduced field-scale planting, which has led to nearly 10,000 mu of planting area in the surrounding townships. Form the largest folded ear root planting base in China.

Morphological characteristics of Houttuynia cordata Thunb

The stem of Houttuynia cordata Thunb is flat and cylindrical, twisted, long 20~35cm, 0.2~0.3cm in diameter, brown on the surface, with several longitudinal edges, obvious nodes, and there are residual whisker roots on the lower nodes, brittle and easy to break.

The leaves of Houttuynia cordata Thunb are alternate, folded and wrinkled, flattened and heart-shaped, long 3~5cm, wide 3~4.5cm, apex acuminate, entire, upper surface dark yellowish green to dark brown, lower surface gray-green or gray-brown, petiole slender, base combined with stipules to form a sheath. Spikes terminal, yellowish brown. Crushing smells like fish.

Edible method of Houttuynia cordata Thunb

The common edible methods of Houttuynia cordata are: cold houttuynia, steamed chicken, scrambled eggs, fried pork shredded with houttuynia, braised pig lungs, porridge, stir-fried houttuynia, houttuynia pig lung soup, fried bacon with houttuynia, all in all, houttuynia is a common seasoning in the south, and its leaves are also edible.

Efficacy and function of Houttuynia cordata Thunb

[nature] pungent, slightly cold, non-toxic.

Liver and lung meridians.

[efficacy] clearing heat and detoxification, eliminating carbuncle and expelling pus, promoting diuresis and detumescence, and relieving diarrhea.

[role] it mainly treats tonsillitis, lung abscess, urinary tract infection, lung heat asthma and cough, malaria, edema, carbuncle, sore, fever, eczema, prolapse of anus and other diseases.