Kohlrabi

[ source ] this product is contained in the" Southern Yunnan Materia Medica", formerly of kohlrabi. " Agricultural treatise" Gai Lan: but the root of the contained food, such as mustard, reed, but is a turnip, and are in the soil; the chief in the soil, for different ear. The characteristics and kohlrabi consistent. " Outline" eggplant" gleaning even cited Zhi" contains: extension of Suizhen leaves such as bluegrass and hypertrophy, a border path between fields, root round categories of sunflower, exposed soil, yellow flowers, the capital that the left blue. The also like this. " The plant is in" in the cloud:" cabbage" agricultural treatise: beiren called kohlrabi. According to this in what is now North kohlrabi, Great Hall of ten, raw food, fresh butter, not for cooking
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[ alias ] kohlrabi, kohlrabi, eggplant, cabbage, even a turnip broccoli head, jade, jade head, incense dish.
[ source ]
Medicine source: for the cruciferous plant kohlrabi corms, leaves and seeds.
Latin animal mineral name: Brassica caulorapa Pasq.
Harvest and storage: 4-7 seeding, summer, autumn, winter, spring September planting, mining.
[ ] the original morphology of kohlrabi Biennial. Plants glabrous, with white. Born in first stem short, close to the ground gradually expanded into a fleshy part of spherical or oblate spheroid surface, diameter 5-12cm, blue green, glabrous, usually white, also with the purple, fleshy part of inner surface is white, slightly spicy flavor. Blade set in bulb at the top, with a long handle; leaf blade ovate to oblong, long 10-25cm, the base of the leaf lobes on opposite sides of a 1-2, margin irregularly dentate; born second years stem elongation, high 30-80cm, cauline leaves oblong or broadly lanceolate, long 8-11cm, 2-4cm width, leaf margin with tooth, or concave undulate, base attenuate a winged, sessile, but not amplexicaul. Racemes of Acremonium, blossom after rachis extends gradually, the flower is big, loose arrangement; sepals 4, broadly lanceolate, glabrous, vertical, lateral 2 larger, base slightly saccate, medial 2 lesser; petals creamy yellow, long 1.8-2cm, long obovate, base clawed, ca. 1cm as long; stamens 6, lateral 2 long stamens slightly shorter, long 1.3cm, long 1cm short stamens; ovary pistil 1, cylindrical, style is not obvious, stigmas capitate. Horn fruit oblong, apex short rafter. Seeds globose. Flowering of 4-5 months, fr. 5-6.
[ ] habitat distribution in South and North China widely grown for fruit and vegetables.
[ ] corm chemical composition containing protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron.
[ ] the taste of Gan Xin; cool;
[ function ] Jianpi Lishi; detoxification. The main deficiency of spleen edema stranguric urination; turbidity; e. blood; damp heat sore
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 30-60g; eaten raw or cooked deposit at the end of the inquiry. External : the amount, trace and apply; or grind end blowing nose.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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