Sauerkraut

Sauerkraut

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

[source] it is the whole plant of Platycodon grandiflorum.

[plant morphology] Zicai, also known as isocampanula.

Slender creeping herbs, 20-40 cm long. Stem green, slender, ca. 2 mm in diam., longitudinally ribbed, branched. Leaves ovate, 5-10 mm long, 4-9 mm wide, apex pointed, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margin coarsely serrated. Flowers small, ca. 5 mm, axillary, sessile; calyx 5-lobed, lobes subtriangular, 3-lobed, base adnate to ovary; corolla white, or lavender, 5-lobed, ovary semiinferior. Capsule.

Born in the tidal wetland beside the mountain road. It is distributed in Guizhou, Yunnan and other places.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

[flavor] slightly sweet and cool.

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and relieving cough,

[prescription selection] 1. Cough treatment: twist one or two vegetables, simmer water and take them.

② Back high fever: twist vegetables, simmer water clothes.

③ Treatment of aphthous ulcer or mouth hidden: twist the right amount of vegetables, pound down, mixed with rice water, with cotton dipped in water to wash the mouth.