Gynostemma pentaphyllum (scientific name: Gynostemma pentaphyllum (Thunb.) Makino) is a grassy climbing plant belonging to the gourd family, Gynostemma pentaphyllum. Stems slender, branched, longitudinally angulate and sulcate, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Leaves membranous or papery, bird-footed, with 3-9 leaflets, usually 5-7 leaflets; Leaf blade ovate-oblong or lanceolate, central leaflets 3 -- 12 x 1.5 -- 4 cm, lateral smaller, apex acute or shortly acuminate. Flowers dioecious. Male panicles, rachis slender, much branched, 10-15 (-30) cm long, branching widely, 3-4 (-15) cm long, sometimes basal with leaflets, pubescent; Pedicels filiform, 1-4 mm long. Fruit fleshy, globose, 5-6 mm in diameter, black when ripe, smooth glabrous, containing two inverted seeds. Seeds ovate-cordate, ca. 4 mm in diameter, grayish-brown or dark brown, apex obtuse, base cordate, compressed, two papillaceous convex.

Fifth, make soup or stew When usually more ribs add the right amount of pentaphyllum to taste, so the taste of pentaphyllum is very sweet, and this porridge soup to drink is more delicious. Fourth, pentaphyllum bubble wine Pentaphyllum can still be used to soak wine, you can choose to use rice wine or liquor, the general degree does not need to be too high, you need to soak for a week. Third, gynostemma pentaphyllum soak water to drink Pentaphyllum tea a lot of people have drunk, but there is a misunderstanding with this tea many people are easy to make, this is the pentaphyllum for cleaning, in fact, this approach is very wrong, because pentaphyllum contains a saponin components, directly after boiling water directly back to affect this component, so it is still directly used to brew drinking effect is better. Second, add porridge to drink Many people like to drink some white rice porridge, if it is in white rice porridge to add the right amount of pentaphyllum pentaphyllum so as to play a good role, generally in the usual porridge when you can add the right amount of pentaphyllum pentaphyllum or wolfberry and so on. The edible method of pentaphyllum is as follows: First, directly used for chewing clothing Direct chewing is indeed a very simple way to eat, generally just picked gynostaphyllum pentaphyllum need to be put into the microwave oven for a few seconds, so that the gynostaphyllum pentaphyllum becomes very dry after you can directly chew every morning and evening, if the taste is not good, you can add black wolfberry into the pot steamed for a few seconds to eat.