In front of and behind the houses in Xinjiang, along the roadside of the desert beach, it can be seen everywhere at this time. It is the time when the autumn is crisp and the vegetation is lush.
Although its medicinal function is rarely recorded in orthodox prescriptions, it is commonly used in folk remedies all over the country, mostly for treating headache and brain fever, expelling wind and relieving pain. If one day you play in the wild and occasionally feel cold and have a headache, you might as well collect some pointed leaves and use them with dandelion or new pagoda flowers, which may be of great help!
Chenopodium album and narrow-leaved species are recorded in Tibetan medicine: China Tibetan medicine treats sore whole grass. Whole grass: used for cold, headache, swelling and pain of limbs.
Chenopodiaceae is a typical temperate plant, with about 130 genera and 1500 species in the world, which are widely distributed in semi-arid and saline-alkali areas of Eurasia, North and South America, Africa and Oceania.
There are totally 84 species of Chenopodiaceae/kloc-0 (excluding exotic species) in China, which are arranged as follows: Xinjiang is the region with the largest number of wild Chenopodiaceae species, with confirmed 153 species /34 genera), followed by Gansu with 67 species /2 1 genus and Qinghai with 45 species /65438+.
The Chenopodiaceae plants distributed in Xinjiang rank first in China in both genera and species, which is the most favorable area for studying undergraduate plant resources!
Quinoa, the cousin of Chenopodiaceae, is a popular plant with important economic value and health preservation value. It also grows well and has good quality in high altitude areas of Xinjiang.
Quinoa was used as space food for astronauts by NASA in the1980s.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) believes that quinoa is the only food that can basically meet the basic nutritional needs of human beings with a single plant, and formally recommends quinoa as the perfect nutritious food most suitable for human beings. The United Nations also declared 20 13 as the International Year of Quinoa.
According to a large number of folk applications in the old summer, and consulting a large number of domestic and foreign research literature on Chenopodiaceae plants, the common wild medicinal materials in Xinjiang, such as Chenopodium album, Atriplex frutescens, and water shield, are all natural plant "soaps" and have rich foaming agent functions. The analysis of physical and chemical components shows that they are rich in plant active saponins, which not only have the value of developing plant-based care products, but also have good effects of anti-chapped skin, moisturizing and promoting the proliferation and healing of skin epidermal cells.
—— Xinjiang Laoxia Handicraft Industry Society 20 17.8.3 1