What's the use of cotton grass

Cotton grass is also called rat grass.

Harvest and storage: spring harvest, impurity removal, sun drying and storage in a dry place. Fresh products are used when they are picked.

During Zhongluotian and Yingshan Flower Festival in Dabie Mountain, Hubei Province, wild rodents will be mashed and mixed with glutinous rice flour to make dough, black sesame seeds will be mixed with white sugar to make stuffing, and then they will be made into round cakes, which will be baked with low fire to make holiday food-soft cakes.

Haocaiba, also known as Ba Fen, Qingming, Miancaiba, Soft Queba, Soft Ziba and Soft Quba, is a favorite food of people in Luzhou, Qiandong, Chongqing, Hubei and Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture of Hunan Province, and also a sacrifice to ancestors. During the Qingming Festival, every household should make bowls of rice cakes, which can be enjoyed by ancestors and tasted by present people. Visitors to Fenghuang County like to take some home to their relatives and friends.

In Xiangxi, Hunan, it is called Artemisia selengensis, which is made of glutinous rice and glutinous rice wrapped in orange leaves. It is also known as Ba Fen, Qingming Ba, Miancaiba and Soft Queba, and it is also a favorite food of people in Luzhou, Qiandong and Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture of Hunan Province.

Medicinal stems and leaves are commonly used drugs for relieving cough, eliminating phlegm, treating asthma, bronchitis, non-infectious ulcer and trauma, and also have the functions of lowering blood pressure and uric acid after oral administration.

Extended data

Gnaphalium affine D. Don, formerly known as Gnaphalium, Latin name: angiosperm; Dicotyledonous plants; Campanulaceae; Compositae; Inula family; Rodents; Rodent grass

Born in low altitude dry land or wet grassland, especially rice fields.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Rodents.