The whole plant of the Baogai grass, a member of the family Plantaginaceae, is commonly known as Baogai grass, pearl lotus, bone-setting grass, and lotus platform summer withered grass. It is often treated as a weed because it often grows on roadsides, forest edges, and near houses. However, Baogai grass is actually a type of traditional Chinese medicine with the ability to clear heat and detoxify the body. It has high medicinal value!
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[Medicinal Value of Baogai Grass]
Baogai grass is a tubular flower of the family Plantaginaceae, a perennial or biennial upright herbaceous plant with strong medicinal value.
According to traditional Chinese medicine, Baogai grass has a neutral nature, a pungent and bitter taste, and the ability to clear heat, promote diuresis, activate blood circulation, dispel wind, reduce swelling, and detoxify the body. When taken internally, it can be used to treat jaundice hepatitis, lymph node tuberculosis, hypertension, facial nerve paralysis, and hemiplegia;
When used externally, it has a significant effect on bruises, fractures, and weeping sores, which is why it is also known as "bone-setting grass" in folk medicine.
In Yunnan Province, China, Baogai grass is also known as "bone-setting grass" and is used for bone-setting treatment after fractures. In addition, Baogai grass has the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis, activating blood circulation, dispelling wind, reducing swelling, and detoxifying the body.
Although Baogai grass has obvious medicinal effects, it is not recommended to use it blindly to avoid potential side effects on personal health.
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[Cultivation of Baogai Grass]
Baogai grass grows on roadsides, forest edges, marshy grasslands, and near houses, or it can be a weed in fields. It can be found at an altitude of up to 4000 meters in Europe and Asia.
Since Baogai grass is considered a weed, its breeding mechanism has been studied in the literature. It has been found that many weeds have a mechanism of self-pollination.
Most of the seeds of Baogai grass are produced by self-pollination, but there is also a small portion that is the result of cross-pollination. Self-pollination may play an important role in ensuring the reproduction of plants in new settlement environments.
On the other hand, cross-pollination will result in genetic recombination, which will give the offspring a richer genotype. This plays a very important role in the adaptation of the plant's offspring to different environments.
Therefore, the combination of cross-pollination and self-pollination may be the main factor that makes Baogai grass a successful weed.
[Pictorial Morphology of Baogai Grass]
