Glutinous Rice Vine is the whole grass with roots of the Urticaceae plant, Glutinous Rice Ball. It is also known as Bundled Immortal Rope or Glutinous Rice Grass. It is a common wild vegetable in rural areas that can be both consumed as food and used for medicinal purposes. Let's learn about the nutritional value and cultivation of Glutinous Rice Vine.
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[Nutritional Value of Glutinous Rice Vine]
Methods of consuming Glutinous Rice Vine: Wash the tender stems and leaves, stir-fry or make soup.
The whole body of Glutinous Rice Vine is precious. After picking its tender leaves and washing them thoroughly, they can be finely chopped and cooked into porridge, cold dishes, or stir-fried. As long as one knows how to cook, there are many delicious dishes that can be prepared using Glutinous Rice Vine.
Now that we know Glutinous Rice Vine can be consumed, we can also understand its significant medicinal value. Glutinous Rice Vine can clear heat and toxins, relieve indigestion, and treat gynecological diseases.
For example, when women have a lot of vaginal discharge, they can pick a whole Glutinous Rice Vine and boil it into water for consumption. After a few days, the condition will improve. When children have abdominal distension and pain due to indigestion, boiling Glutinous Rice Vine in water and drinking it a few times will be effective.
According to traditional Chinese medicine, Glutinous Rice Vine is a medicinal herb with cooling and swelling properties. Therefore, whether it is used externally as a fresh application or consumed as a medicinal herb by boiling it in water, the cooling and swelling effects of Glutinous Rice Vine can be clearly observed.
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[Identification of Glutinous Rice Vine]
Glutinous Rice Vine has the effects of clearing heat and toxins, invigorating the spleen, and stopping bleeding. It is mainly used to treat sores, abscesses, scrofula, dysentery, excessive vaginal discharge, children's malnutrition, vomiting blood, and external bleeding.
The roots of Glutinous Rice Vine are very similar to ginseng, so it has plenty of moisture. As long as the roots are not damaged, this grass has strong vitality.
Glutinous Rice Vine is widely distributed in southern China and often grows on embankments, field ridges, roadsides, hillsides, and moist ditches. Its growth environment is not picky, as long as it is in a damp place.
The stems and leaves of Glutinous Rice Vine are tender and all green. However, if it grows in a relatively dry place, the leaves will be darker green and the stems will be purple-red. This may be due to absorbing more ultraviolet light, but their medicinal effects are the same.
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[Cultivation of Glutinous Rice Vine]
Glutinous Rice Vine grows in shady and moist places in valley forests and at the foot of mountains. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, and other places. It is produced in Sichuan, Guizhou, Zhejiang, and other regions.
1. Biological Characteristics
Glutinous Rice Vine has strong adaptability to climate and soil, and prefers moist and fertile loamy soil.
2. Cultivation Techniques
Glutinous Rice Vine is propagated by seeds. In Sichuan, seeds are sown in March to April. After land preparation, a 1.3m wide ridge is made, and holes with a row spacing of approximately 26cm are dug, about 7cm deep, with a large and flat bottom.
After applying manure, 7.5kg of seeds are mixed with grass ash and manure, and spread in the holes.
3. Field Management
When the Glutinous Rice Vine seedlings are 7-10cm tall, thin and supplement the seedlings, with 4-5 seedlings per hole, and remove weeds and apply fertilizer once. In June, August, and November, weeding and fertilizing should be done once each.
After that, weeding and fertilizing should be done once each year when new seedlings emerge, in May, and in November. In spring and summer, manure is the main fertilizer, and mixed organic fertilizer is applied in winter.
