Chinese medicine Chicory is the whole plant of the orchid Orchidaceae Orchidaceae, which is distributed in Guangdong, Hong Kong, Hainan, Guangxi, and southern Yunnan. It has the effects of nourishing yin, moisturizing the lungs, cooling blood, and stopping bleeding. It has therapeutic effects on pulmonary tuberculosis, hemoptysis, and neurasthenia!
Chicory nourishes the lungs, stops coughing, clears heat, and cools blood. It is used for pulmonary tuberculosis, cough, hemoptysis, pertussis, and bronchitis.
It can also treat neurasthenia, loss of appetite, and muscle and bone pain.
Taste:
Sweet, cold
Meridian:
Lung and spleen meridians
Main functions:
Nourishes yin, moisturizes the lungs, cools blood, stops bleeding. Used for pulmonary tuberculosis, hemoptysis, and neurasthenia.
Dosage:
Oral administration: decoction, 1-3 qian (3-5 qian for fresh products).
The whole plant of Chicory is 10-20 cm long. The rhizome extends like a silkworm, fleshy, with a diameter of about 3 mm, grayish-yellow on the surface, with longitudinal wrinkles, obvious nodes, and residual membranous or dried hairy leaf sheaths.
The roots are short and slightly stout. The leaves are alternate, papery, curled and shrunk, and become ovate-elliptic after flattening, 2-5 cm long and 1-2 cm wide, gray-green or dark red. The leaf stalk elongates into a membranous sheath and clasps the stem.
Sometimes flowers and white flowers can be seen on the inflorescence, and the lower part of the inflorescence stem has membranous bracts. Weak in Qi, mild in taste, slightly astringent.
Growing habits:
Chicory prefers warm weather and dislikes high temperature and humidity. The suitable temperature for growth is 15-25 degrees Celsius. The cultivation soil is better to be fertile sandy soil, with good drainage and not easy to rot in stagnant water.
It grows on tree trunks or rocks at an altitude of 300-1760 meters, and also often grows on rocks or trees by the creek.
