Medicinal effects and functions of Mimosa pudica

Everyone knows that mimosa will close its leaves when touched, which makes it look very interesting and therefore very ornamental. However, few people know that mimosa is also a very common Chinese medicinal material. After taking this Chinese medicinal material, the patient will feel that his body is very good and it can achieve the effect of clearing away heat, detoxifying and refreshing the mind.

Whole plant (Mimosa pudica): sweet, astringent, cool. Soothes the mind, clears away heat and detoxifies. Used for vomiting and diarrhea, insomnia, infantile malnutrition, red and swollen eyes, deep abscesses, and herpes zoster. Root (Mimosa pudica root): astringent, slightly bitter. poisonous. Relieve cough and resolve phlegm, promote dampness and dredge meridians, harmonize the stomach, and eliminate food accumulation. Used for cough, phlegm and asthma, rheumatic joint pain, and indigestion in children.

Mimosapine o-β-D-glucoside is slightly toxic. Long-term contact or ingestion can cause the hair follicles in the skin cells to degenerate, causing the hair and eyebrows to turn yellow or even fall off. Mimosa pudica is slightly toxic and should never be taken alone. It must be used together with other medicines. In addition, due to the mimosapine content, it can also cause cataracts and growth inhibition. Eating mimosa can also cause hair loss, so it is not suitable to grow mimosa indoors.

The plant of Mimosa has a scattered shape, and its pinnate leaves are slender and beautiful, and its leaves close when touched; the flowers of Mimosa are numerous and delicate, very charming, giving people the impression of being weak and beautiful. It can be planted in the corner of the courtyard or in a pot on the window table. When giving flowers as a gift, lightly cover the potted plant with pink tulle and tie it with a pink ribbon knot. It would be more interesting if it could be decorated with pink mohair pompoms. Now it is mostly cultivated as ornamental plants at home.

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Mimosa is a wonderful plant that can predict changes in weather conditions. If you touch it with your hand, its leaves close quickly and open slowly, which means the weather will turn sunny; if you touch the mimosa and its leaves shrink slowly, droop slowly, or even close slightly and then open again, this means the weather will turn from sunny to cloudy or it is about to rain.

In addition, mimosa can also predict catastrophic weather changes and will produce unconventional growth activities in response to sudden unseasonal temperature differences, geomagnetic and geoelectric changes. You can place some potted mimosa plants in your room to observe and predict and prevent natural disasters.