goat weed has no color, and the fragrance lures butterflies into dreams.
The leaves are like jasper, and the branches are like iron.
The flowers are like white jade petals like plums.
The roots are deep, the leaves are thick, the branches are strong, the flowers are fruitful and the color is more beautiful.
Not afraid of the cold or the heat, standing proudly and opening to the sun.
There is a Chinese medicine prescription called Sanxian Tang, in "Sanxian Tang", the second medicine is Xianling Spleen, in fact, Xianling Spleen is another name for Epimedium Weed. In addition, Epimedium also has other aliases such as Herb, Abandoned Cane Grass, Thousand Taels of Gold, Dried Chicken Tendon, Coptis Chinensis, Three-Branch Nine-Leaf Clover, and Rigid Grass. Today, I will introduce the fairy spleen.
There are 40 varieties of epimedium and 15 species are used as medicinal herbs. Among them, Epimedium pubescens, Epimedium pubescens, Epimedium Arrowleaf and Korean Epimedium. These three are included as the main base species and are included in the pharmacopoeia. Other varieties are used only as folk herbs.
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was an old herd who herded sheep on the hillside all the year round, and he found that a plant with leaves similar to apricot leaves grew on the mountain.
Rams eating this grass will become very excited and will mate more often with the ewes. One day, the famous medical scientist Tao Hongjing met this old shepherd in the process of collecting medicine. In his spare time, the old shepherd told him about this strange thing. Tao Hongjing, who has always been sensitive to medicinal materials, immediately noticed that this herb was not ordinary, and thought in his heart that maybe it was a kind of kidney tonic that had not yet been discovered. So, Tao Hongjing humbly asked the old shepherd for advice, and then went to the field to investigate carefully. After Tao Hongjing's many researches, he finally confirmed that the effect of this strange grass is not ordinary. Later, Tao Hongjing wrote this strange herb in his pharmacopoeia record: There is a sheep in the north of Xichuan, and the river changes a day, and it is caused by eating this herb, so it is called Epimedium weed.
Epimedium is the dried leaf of the Berberaceae plant Epimedium or Epimedium pubescens, or Korean Epimedium. Perennial herbaceous plant, 20-60 cm tall, rhizome stubby, lignified, dark brown. Each branch has three leaves, so it is also called three branches. The plant shape of the fairy spleen (Epimedium is two-fold and three-out, with basal and stem-born, long-stalked, papery or thick papery leaflets, and spiny teeth on the leaf margins. The rhizomes are creeping, nodular and the leaves are ovate or oblong-lanceolate. The base is heart-shaped, with prickly hairs on the margins. racemes or branched end round-dimensional inflorescences. The fruit is oval, the flowering period is March, and the fruit is from April to May. Most of them are born in bamboo forests or roadsides, and some are born in stone crevices. Epimedium is recorded in Chinese medicine classics such as "Materia Medica" and "Materia Medica".
The application of goat weed has a long history. In addition, it is also the second flavor of the Sanxian Tang founded by the Holy Hand of the Chinese Medicine. The Three Immortal Soup is composed of crane grass, fairy spleen, and fairy grass, and the fairy spleen here is epimedium. If you want to know more about goat weed, you can consult the relevant books or consult a professional, or you can look it up online.