Chinese name: Chicken Yateng

Latin name: Paederia scandens (Lour.) Merr.

Aliases: Chicken Yateng, cowhide jelly, smelly rattan

Distribution area: Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Fujian, Hunan, etc.

Family and genus: Rubiaceae

1. Morphological characteristics of A. chinensis

Chiya vine is a trailing herb, the base is woody, two to three meters high, bald or slightly hairy. Leaves opposite, with stalks; leaves nearly membranous, ovate, elliptic, oblong to lanceolate, apex short or acuminate, base rounded or cuneate, both surfaces bald or nearly bald; between leaves Stipules triangular, falling off. Panicles axillary and terminal, expanded, branched into scorpion-like cymes; flowers white-purple, sessile; calyx narrowly campanulate. Corolla is campanulate, arranged in valvate shape, reddish-purple inside, powdery pubescent; stamens 5, filaments very short, inserted in corolla tube. The berries are spherical, bright and straw-yellow when ripe. Flowering in autumn.

2. Efficacy and role of Chiya vine

The efficacy and role of Chi Yateng vine, it can prevent cardiovascular disease, the protector of menopause, and reduce the risk of breast cancer. Probability, anti-vascular, milk substitute, tonic and heat-clearing health. It can also be used as food and seasoning. Of course, the most important thing is the medicinal effect. It has sedative, analgesic and anticonvulsant effects. Not only that, it also has antibacterial effects. Local anesthetic effect of conduction block.

3. Planting method of Chiya vine

The planting method of Chiya vine is mainly propagated by seeds and cuttings. Seed propagation: Pick mature fruits in October-November, pile up and rot, rub off the peel of the vine vine, and store it with wet sand for later use. Sow the seeds in March-April, open a 1.3 cm wide border, and sow about ten seeds per hole. After watering with human and animal manure, cover with plant ash or fine soil about one cm thick. After the seeds germinate, when the seedlings are five centimeters high, evenly and replenish the seedlings, leaving 2-3 seedlings in each litter, and cultivating and weeding, and topdressing. When the vines are about 30cm long, cultivating and weeding, topdressing once, and inserting pillars for climbing. After harvesting in September-October, cultivating and weeding, and topdressing once for the winter. After that, the annual management is the same as the first year. Human and animal manure water can be used as fertilizer in spring and summer, and compost can be used in winter.

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