Red Leg Powder, also known as Blood Angelica and Red Ze Lan, is used medicinally with its roots and whole plant. Let's take a look at the specific cultivation techniques and medicinal uses with the editor!
Growing Environment of Red Leg Powder
1. It grows in shady and damp places such as roadsides, ditches, and grassy areas, or it can be cultivated.
2. It grows in slopes and valleys below an altitude of 3000m. It can also be found in grasslands.
Cultivation Methods of Red Leg Powder
Biological characteristics: It prefers shade and moisture, and can withstand cold temperatures. It thrives in loose, fertile, and well-drained soil.
Cultivation techniques: It can be propagated through division and seeds, with division being the main method. After the winter dormant period but before the spring growth, dig up the rhizomes, divide them into individual plants, making sure each plant has buds and roots.
When planting, plow the land and create 1.3m wide raised beds, with hole spacing of about 33cm between rows and plants.
Plant 2 plants per hole, compact the soil in the planting area, and apply animal or livestock manure and wood ash. Finally, cover with fine soil to level with the surface of the raised bed.
Field management: After planting, weed and fertilize 3 times a year.
The first weeding and fertilization should be done in March, just after the plants emerge. The second one should be done in June or July, and the third one should be done during the winter dormant period. For the third fertilization, cut off the withered stems and leaves, and then cover with soil for the winter.
The first two fertilizations should mainly use animal or livestock manure, while the third one can use wood ash or compost.
Medicinal Uses of Red Leg Powder
1. For treating dysentery: Take one or two liang of Red Leg Powder, decoct in water, and drink.
2. For treating abdominal pain: Take five qian of Red Leg Powder and one qian of Mu Xiang (Aucklandia lappa), decoct in water, and drink.
3. For treating abnormal vaginal discharge: Take six qian of Red Leg Powder, three qian of cedarwood pulp, and three qian of sandalwood pulp, decoct in water and drink. For white discharge, add white sugar; for red discharge, add brown sugar, rose flowers, and donkey-hide gelatin.
4. For treating abscess: Smash a piece of Red Leg Powder and apply it as a poultice.
5. For treating bruises and sprains: Decoct Red Leg Powder in water and mix with alcohol for consumption. (The above prescriptions are from "Hunan Materia Medica")
6. For treating mastitis: Mash the whole plant of Red Leg Powder or potatoes and wild buckwheat, and apply externally with rice wine residue. ("Practical Selection of Chinese Herbal Medicine in Guangxi")
