Introduction: Do you still remember the sky-facing jar on the roadside? When I was a child, I often picked it and ate it. I didn’t expect it to be so valuable. Now I know it’s not too late. Nature is really amazing. It is breeding all kinds of wild plants . There are countless of them on the roadside alone. They are unique in shape and diverse in colors, bringing a beautiful scenery to the countryside.
In the past, many plants were named according to their shape characteristics. For example, the five-fingered peach , which is more familiar to everyone, is named Wufeng Hair Peach because its leaves are similar to our five fingers, and the fruits are full of hairs, and they are also very similar to the small three-fingered peach , so it is named Wufeng Hair Peach.
The plant I shared with you today is also named according to its shape characteristics, and its scientific name. Very interesting, called Chaotian Can. If you grow up in the countryside, you must be familiar with it and you will often see it on the roadside.
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Why is it called Chaotian Can? This is because its fruit grows up to heaven and looks like a jar, so the ancients named it Chaotian Can. In some places, it is also called Can Jiao Cao, Can Zi Cao, , high-foot red jar, Poured Water Lotus , Big Golden Bell , Pomegranate and other names.
Chaotianguan is a perennial herb of the Wild Peony family, and is mostly grown on roadsides, barren slopes, valleys, streams, under sparse forests, and bushes. It is distributed in many areas in my country, including Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hunan, Yunnan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, etc.
Anyone who knows Chaotian Guan knows that it is not very tall, about 1 meter high, its leaves are opposite, and there are many tiny fluffs on the surface, which are soft to the touch. Its stem is also quite special, with four ridges, and a few are hexagonal. The flowers in the
facing the sky are also very beautiful. Each flower is composed of four petals, and the color is bright, deep red to purple. The shape of the flower blooms looks similar to the flowers in wild peony , which is quite beautiful.
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The most special thing about it is that it has fruits that look like jars. The fruits are covered with fluff. At first, they are blue and turn purple-red after they mature slowly. When they were young, they often picked them to eat them. They taste sweet, but their mouths are full of purple-red.
The greatest value of Chaotian Guan is its roots, which have high medicinal value. It belongs to the three meridians of liver, spleen and stomach. In our area, it is the most commonly used plant for the older generation. There is also a saying among the people that "replenishes deficiency and benefits the kidney and lower limbs, and promotes diuresis and lubricates the Chaotian Guan". It is about it.
Chaotian jar is a common good medicine used by the people. It has the effects of replenishing deficiency and kidney, promoting diuresis and promoting irrigation, astringent and stopping bleeding. It can be used for various diseases such as deficiency cough, long-term cough, enteritis, , vomiting blood, dysentery, lower limbs, hemorrhoids, leucorrhea, uterine cold, irregular menstruation, rheumatism pain, urinary incontinence, bruising and trauma bleeding and other diseases.
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Because the sky can has so much value, the elderly who know it will dig some of its roots every year and dry them and store them. They will be used to make soup every few days, which has good nourishing effects and is also of great benefit to the body.
Hometown people often use it to make chicken soup, rib soup, , old duck soup, lean meat soup, etc., especially when it is used to make soup, it is particularly delicious, and it is rich in nutrition and has high value. It can not only supplement the body's nutrition, but also help certain diseases in the body very well.
Dear friends, do you still remember this kind of sky-facing jar on the roadside? Its fruit was often picked and eaten when I was a child. I didn’t expect that its roots were so valuable and it was a great choice for making soup. But many people don’t know it, and it’s not too late to know it now.
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