What is geranium and what is the function of gerancholy?

Dispelling wind and dampness, activating the meridians.

1. Improve blood stasis and qi stagnation.

The old stork grass is tender and the prose is ventilated, and the effect of blood circulation is excellent. The old stork grass has excellent qi effect, especially for women, can alleviate menstrual irregularities, and has a miraculous effect on the treatment of dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea. Secondly, the old stork grass also focuses on soothing the liver and regulating qi in changing qi and blood, and it is also effective for rib pain.

2. Headache rheumatism.

Stork grass can be warmed and dispersed, gram "upward leader", so it has a good effect in improving the body's rheumatism, people with rheumatism in a humid environment will cause limb pain, if the limbs are numb can use the old stork grass to play the effect of channeling and veining, invigorating blood and veins, it can relieve headache rheumatism.

3. Prevent blood clots.

Stork grass can expand blood vessels, strengthen the flow of coronary blood, and alleviate myocardial hypoxia. The health of the myocardium promotes the health of blood and blood pressure indicators, which is a good medicine to prevent and improve blood clots.

Stork grass has the following effects: first, it has the effect of clearing heat and dampness, and is used for dysentery and diarrhea caused by dampness and heat in the large intestine; The second is that it has the effect of dispelling wind and channeling, and is used for limb numbness or bruises, diarrhea and other diseases caused by rheumatism; The third is antibacterial, which can inhibit the growth of catarrhal coccus, Staphylococcus aureus, dysentery flexneri, group B streptococcus, and pulmonary acoccus, and prevent the occurrence of influenza; Fourth, it has the effect of suppressing cough.

Stork grass has the effect of dispelling rheumatism, clearing meridians, and stopping diarrhea and dysentery.

Modern pharmacological studies have shown that geranium stork has the effects of protecting the liver, protecting the stomach, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antitussive.

Stork grass can be used for rheumatism, numbness, muscle and bone pain, bruises, diarrhea, dysentery, sores and other effects.

geranium wilfordiimaxim) is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Geranaceae, geranium storkgrass.

Old stork grass: also known as duck foot old stork grass. Perennial herb, 30-80cm tall.

The rhizome is short and erect, with slightly thickened long roots. The stems are erect or slightly creeping at the bottom, with inverted pubescence. Leaves opposite; basal and lower leaves with long stalks, tapering upward; Leaves narrowly lanceolate, apex acuminate, hairy; Leaves kidney-triangular, heart-shaped at base, 3-5 cm long, 4-6 cm wide, 3 deeply lobed, **lobes slightly larger, ovate diamond-shaped, apex pointed, upper part with notched or coarse teeth, apex with short concave tip, lower lobe sometimes nearly 5 deeply lobed, upper and lower sides with more or less volcanic hairs.

Flowers solitary leaf axils, or 2-3 flowers into clustered umbels; The peduncle is elongated at the time of flowering, and bent and inclined downwards when fruiting; sepals 5, ovate or lanceolate, apex mang, 5-6 mm long, pubescent; petals 5, pale red or pink, nearly equal in length to sepals, with 5 purple-lead red longitudinal veins; stamens 10, conjoined at base, filaments abruptly enlarged at base, enlarged part with marginal hairs; Ovary superior, 5-chambered, columella 5, inconspicuous or very short. Capsule, slightly hairy, short beak, when ripe, 5 petals are separated from the central axis of the group, the beak is rolled inward from the bottom to the top, about 2cm long. The flowering period is from July to August, and the fruiting period is from August to October.

It is distributed in Northeast China, North China, East China, Central China, Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan. It is also found in the Russian Far East, North Korea and Japan. It grows in low mountain forests and meadows below 1,800 meters above sea level.

The leaf shape of the stork grass is beautiful, the leaf color is bright, the flower color is many, the flowers are beautiful, the plant is short, and it is suitable for ground cover plants. The whole herb is used for medicinal purposes, dispelling wind and channeling.

The seedlings are annual or biennial herbs, the height is about 10 cm, its roots are cylindrical, there will be many branches on the stems, and there will be a lot of long soft hairs, the leaves of the seedlings are long ovate or long round triangles, the petals are obovate, the color is light purple or blue-purple, the flowering period of the seedlings is from April to August every year, and the fruiting period is from June to September.

Siberian stork is a perennial herb, its height is between 20 cm and 100 cm, its stem will also have many branches, and it will have slightly inverted hairs, Siberian stork grass blooms from June to July every year, and the fruiting period is between July and September.

Nepalese stork grass mainly grows in Nepal and Bangladesh, and is mainly distributed in Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other regions in China, mainly in shrubs, mountain deciduous forests and hillside grasslands. Moreover, the efficacy and effect of Nepalese stork grass is also very numerous, and its medicinal value is very significant.

<> the names of the stork grass and the crane grass are very similar, if you don't look carefully, you will think that they are the name of the same grass. So, what is the difference between these two plants in real life?

1. The difference between old stork grass and old crane grass.

1. Blade difference.

The basal leaves of geranium stork grass are opposite to the stems; The leaves are ovate-triangular or the upper part is narrowly lanceolate, 5-8 mm long, 1-3 mm wide, the basal leaves and the lower part of the stem are long-stalked, the petiole is 2-3 times longer than the leaf, it is inverted to pubescence, and the upper petiole of the stem is tapering or nearly sessile.

The leaves of the old crane grass are opposite, gray-green or greenish-brown, often wrinkled, flattened and kidney-shaped or nearly heart-shaped, 1-3 cm long, wide, with rounded toothed petioles on the margins, slender, 4-7 cm long.

2. The difference between flowers.

The peduncle is filamentous, grows alone in the leaf axils, the bracts are opposite, brown, the sepals are ovate-oval, and the petal color is white or lavender, which is obovate.

The inflorescences of the old crane grass are apical or axillary, the bracts are diamond-shaped, the sepals are long ovate, the petals are similar in shape to the former, and the color is white or light red.

Second, the difference in role.

1. Old stork grass.

Indications: dispelling wind and channeling; live blood; Clears away heat and dampness. Rheumatic pain; skin numbness; Soreness in the muscles and bones; bruises; diarrhoea, dysentery, cultivation and hidden diseases; Sores.

2. Old crane grass.

1) Antiviral effect.

The extract of wild crane root contains flavonoids, catechins, and tannins, which can inhibit the replication of a variety of supporting viruses (such as influenza, herpes simplex, vaccinia, HIV-I), among which the anti-influenza virus effect is the most obvious. In vitro, it can reduce the infectivity of various influenza virus strains, and can also inhibit the growth of Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans in vitro.

2) Liver protection.

It can inhibit the lipid peroxidation of liver mitochondria and microsomes, reduce plasma cholesterol and GOT GPT levels, and inhibit mitochondrial lipid peroxidation induced by ADP and ascorbic acid. At the same time, it also inhibits the microsomal lipid peroxidation induced by ADP and NADPH, thereby protecting the liver from damage.

3) Antimicrobial effect.

The sterilized aqueous solution of Laohe grass extract has inhibitory effect on dysentery bacillus flexneri, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in vitro.