Planting Prospect of Houttuynia cordata Thunb

Houttuynia cordata is also called dog heart grass, broken ears, dog ears, the whole plant into medicine, there are heat, detoxification, diuresis effect, treatment enteritis, dysentery, nephritis edema and mastitis, otitis media and so on. The tender rhizome is edible, and people in southwest China often make vegetables or condiments. Let's take a look at the planting prospects of Houttuynia cordata together.

Cultivation prospects of Houttuynia cordata

Houttuynia cordata is widely distributed in southern provinces and regions of China, northwest, parts of North China and Xizang. In recent years, due to the influence of "returning to nature" and "medicine and food are of the same origin", it is increasingly popular to dig Houttuynia cordata for sale and eat as a characteristic wild vegetable. Wild resources are in short supply and the market price is relatively high.

In addition, Houttuynia cordata is a traditional medicinal plant, it has a pungent and cold taste, has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, detumescence and pus discharge, diuresis and stranguria, etc., can be used to treat lung abscess ulcer, lung heat cough, heat diarrhea, edema, beriberi, urinary tract infection, leucorrhea, carbuncle swelling and other diseases. Therefore, Houttuynia cordata often becomes the main medicine of lung disease and urinary system disease in traditional Chinese medicine prescription.

Houttuynia cordata L. can be used as wild vegetable for industrial production and further development and utilization, and also can be used as raw material of medicine to be processed into western medicine injection or Chinese patent medicine, so it has ideal market prospect at present.

Cultivation Benefit of Houttuynia cordata

Planting houttuynia cordata has quick results. In the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, it can be planted from the end of February to the beginning of March. It can be harvested in batches after 3 months of planting, or it can be planted and harvested in broken seasons. The yield per mu is about 3000 kg, with a high yield of 5000 kg. Because of its fishy smell, no pests and diseases were found during its growth, it is a pollution-free vegetable, which is popular in the market and has high benefits.

Cultivation environment of Houttuynia cordata

Houttuynia cordata has a wide adaptability range, can grow seedlings in frost-free period all over the country, can normally overwinter in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, can sprout at 12℃, and has the characteristics of wet, waterlogging, shade tolerance, lax requirements on light and soil, etc., and does not compete with other crops for land, so it can make full use of wasteland cultivation.