What is the main value of jelly grass?

Summer is here, and many of our friends like to eat cold noodles or jelly. We have only seen the finished cold noodles or cold noodles outside or in restaurants, but we don’t know their raw materials. Agar-agar grass is the only ingredient for making jelly, so what is the main value of agar-agar grass? Maybe you don’t know, so let me give you a brief introduction below.

Mesona chinensis Benth. is a plant of the Lamiaceae family . The lower part of the stem is prostrate, and the upper part is erect. The leaves are ovate or ovate-oblong, slightly obtuse at the tip, gradually contracted into a petiole at the base, with small serrations on the edge, and sparse long hairs on both sides; the leaves growing on the upper part of the inflorescence are smaller, bract-like, ovate to inverted triangular, shorter than the flowers, often with lavender at the base, and fall off when fruiting. The raceme is weak, the flowers are small and arranged in whorls, the calyx is small, bell-shaped, 2-lipped, the upper lip is 3-lobed, the lower lip is entire, or tubular when fruiting, curved downward, with longitudinal veins and transverse wrinkles; the corolla is light pink, the upper lip is broad, entire or serrated, the lower lip is oblong and sunken; there are 4 stamens with prominent filaments; there is 1 pistil with 2-lobed style; one side of the disk is swollen. Nutlets oval. Flowering period is late autumn.

Main Value

Medicinal

Whole herb: sweet, light, cool. Clears away heat, removes dampness, and cools blood. Used for heatstroke, thirst, hypertension, muscle and joint pain.

The whole plant of jelly grass contains polysaccharides, which have the functions of relieving heat, clearing away heat, cooling blood and detoxifying. It is used for heatstroke, diabetes, jaundice, diarrhea, dysentery, hypertension, muscle pain, joint pain, acute nephritis, toothache caused by wind and fire, burns,

Erysipelas, syphilis and lacquer allergy.

The edible plant can be dried and boiled, mixed with rice milk and cooked, and then cooled to make a

Liangfen is a black gelatinous substance with a tough and soft texture. It can be used as a thirst-quencher in summer when mixed with sugar. It is often sold in Guangdong and Guangxi. It is called Liangfen in Guangzhou and called Xianrenban or Xianniuban in Meixian.

"Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Immortal Jelly, also known as Liangfencao. It comes from Guangdong, has beautiful stems and leaves, and smells like sandalwood. The juice can be mixed with rice flour to satisfy hunger. Mountain people plant acres of it and sell it in summer." It can be seen that artificial cultivation of Liangfencao has existed since ancient times.