Southern crane louse

Southern crane louse

[category]: fruits

Wild carrot fruit

[alias]: lice grass, wild carrot.

[source]: it is the fruit of Daucus Carota L.

[harvesting]: in autumn, when the fruit is ripe, the branches are cut, dried in the sun, and the fruit is beaten down to remove impurities.

[nature and taste]: the fruit is double hanging fruit, oval shape, and divided into two parts. The fruit is 3-4mm in length and 1.5-2.5mm in width; the surface is light green brown or brownish yellow, with style residue at the apex and blunt base; the back is raised, with 4 protruding ridges, and a row of yellowish white barbs are densely distributed along the ridges, about 1.5mm in length, and pubescence is scattered in the concave part between the ridges. Light weight. There is a special aroma when rubbing, and the taste is slightly hard. It is mild in nature, bitter and pungent in taste.

[plant morphology]: biennial herb, 15-120cm high, with coarse bristles. The basal leaves are oblong, 2-3 times pinnate, and the final lobes are linear to lanceolate, 2-14mm long and 0.4-2mm wide. The compound umbel is terminal, the total pedicel is 10-60cm long; the involucral bracts are numerous, pinnate; the umbrella is numerous; the small involucral bracts are 5-7, linear; the pedicel is 15-25; the flowers are white, and the flowers in the center of the small umbel are purple. The fruit is ovoid, with narrow wings and short hooked spines. The flowering period is from May to July and the fruiting period is from July to August.

[growing place]: in the wild grass. It is mainly produced in Jiangsu, Henan, Hubei and Zhejiang.

[chemical composition]: it contains asarone, asaronal, disaabolene, carotene, carotene, tiglicacid, eraniol, etc.

[nature, taste and meridian tropism] bitter, pungent, flat, with little poison. Guipi and Weijing

[function indications]: Insecticidal and Xiaoji. For Ascaris lumbricoides, Enterobius vermicularis, taeniasis, abdominal pain due to worm accumulation, infantile malnutrition.