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Happy grass is actually citronella When people hold some ceremonies, they like to take a handful of citronella to please, so citronella is also called "happy grass".

This plant is a perennial herb. The culms are thin and tufted, with a height of 40 ~ 160 cm, erect, nearly hairless and swollen nodes. Leaf sheaths are hairless, the base is mostly broken, and the upper part is shorter than the internodes; Ligule is round and blunt, 2 ~ 4 mm long, membranous, with irregular cracks at the top; Leaf blade narrowly linear; It is 30 ~ 70cm long and1~ 6mm wide, with almost no hair on both sides and white powder.

Scientific name: citronella? Citrate. ?

English name: Lemongrass citronella

Branch: Gramineae?

Utilization part: mainly leaves, and leaf sheaths can also be used when extracting essential oil. ?

Flavor characteristics: Lemon has a strong aroma. ?

Household: You can put drinking water instead of lemon, that is, ready-made lemonade, and the leaves can be made into great dried flowers, which can continuously emit lemon fragrance. ?

Citronella is a kind of thatched spice growing in subtropical zone, which naturally contains lemon fragrance and has the effects of clearing stomach, waking up and strengthening yang. Dai people like to use citronella as seasoning, wrap pickled crucian carp and tilapia with it, and bake them slowly with charcoal fire until the fish is cooked, which is fresh and fragrant, and is more common in the wild near Kunming.

pharmacological action

1, antiasthmatic effect

2. Cough relieving effect

3, antibacterial effect