A week has passed.
I am Yokoi, an Adan staff member.
This time I found a dokudami plant blooming on the roadside.
Here and there, they begin to bloom shortly before the rainy season.
It finds a gap in the slight garden of the house and blooms.
Many people dislike the smell of dokudami, but I quite like it.
The flowers have a lovely shape and have long been valued as a medicine.
If you are bitten by an insect, rub a leaf and apply it to the bite,
It is taken from the stem, dried with the leaves, and served as a tea. (This is the dokudami tea sold on the market.
Preventing skin rashes, cleaning out your stomach, and all that good stuff.
I heard it on the radio the other day.
Just a single flower of dokudami (dokudami means "dokudami" in Japanese) is enough to make everything smell like a poppy in the bathroom, the fridge, the toilet, etc.
They say it can take away the odor.
Also, if you take only the leaves, wash them clean, powder them, and deep fry them, you can make tempura with a slightly bitter taste.
I have had this tempura once, in a wild vegetable dish. It is quite tasty.
The dokudami flowers I photographed were blooming in the shade, quite inconspicuous.
Are you surprised to find that many wild grasses are really tough and strong, yet good for you?
Everyone should take a good look at the plants and flowers.
