What is the use of a plant called sisal in the countryside? Can it be used as medicine?

This type of vine plant is called Poria cocos. In the small beautiful hometown, whether it is in the mountains or on the side of the avenue, there are many such vines. It is covered with very long thin canes, with long, narrow, leathery leaves, which often climb on top of other plants, and are very easy to distinguish.

Generally, in summer or autumn, dig its ground, large root blocks, clean, cut into slices, dry, and make Chinese medicinal materials.

Poria cocos has the functions of clearing heat and removing fire, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and benefiting bones and joints. It goes well with food and has a very good diet** effect. Like everyone, you will often make black bean and poria cocos and red bean syrup, wash the black beans and poria cocos, put them in the pot and cook them into porridge, and then add old rock sugar, which is eaten in summer, which is very fresh.

Cantonese people also like to use Poria cocos to make soup. Use Poria cocos, Niu Dali and pork ribs to cook an old fire soup together, the soup has a faint aroma of Chinese medicinal materials, very delicious, especially suitable for the long-term hot temperature in Guangdong Province.

The plant is a vine plant, but if you look at the vine stems and the surrounding plants, you can see that the stem of the plant is long, as if it has been wooden, so it needs to be a wooden vine, which can be regarded as a climbing shrub. The leaves are leathery. The leaves are smooth and leathery, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, about fifteen centimeters long and three or four centimeters wide according to their ratio to the human fingers; The length of the leaf stem is similar to the total width of a human finger.

The leaf has a distinctive feature of having long tendrils near where the leaf stem meets the stem.

Because the medicinal value of Poria cocos is very different from other similar kinds, once the adverse effects are unpredictable, the most important thing is to know how to distinguish between real and fake Poria cocos, and there are many imitations on the market, because the ** of Poria cocos is relatively high. The medicinal effect is mainly the actual effect of removing moisture. The leaves of the real Poria cocos are slender, the surface is smooth, it blooms in September every year, the fruit is perfect and gray-black in November, the tubers in the ground are part of the specific medicinal value, and there are very few fibrous roots on the side.

Likes to climb on top of other plants to grow and develop.

Some similar species, such as the Vajra vine, have wide ring-shaped leaves, long thorns, most of which do not climb, and their growth and development are similar to those of the love bush. The tuber in the ground is also very different from Poria cocos, and the average human eye can see that there are many fibrous roots growing around the tuber. In addition to that,There are also many species of plants that are similar to Poria cocos, and they are creeping plants that grow and develop, and we can distinguish them from the leaves, as long as most of the leaves are thin and long.

It can reduce swelling and detoxification, is relatively rich in nutrition, has the effect of stopping bleeding, can be indigestion, and can be used as medicine.

Of course, the sap and rhizomes of this plant can be used to make wine, as well as to make sugar.