Green onion
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[synonyms] Radix Sophorae Flavescentis and Rhizoma Rehmanniae (Nanjing folk herb), human hair and laohezui (Jiangsu medicinal materials).
[source] the roots of Compositae plants such as Allium mongolicum and Allium vulgare.
[plant morphology] 1
Herbs perennial, 15-30 cm high, glabrous. It has cone-shaped massive root, and the neck of the root is densely covered with fibrous vascular bundles of dead leaves. The basal leaves are tufted, lanceolate or linear lanceolate, 12-30 cm long, 6-20 mm wide, apex acuminate, base narrowly petiolate, entire or margin slightly microwave-shaped, glabrous, with 3-5 veins; the basal margin of petiole slightly expanded into sheath. The flower stem is single, with several scaly leaves, or with small sessile cauline leaves; the head inflorescence is large, single at the top of the stem; the involucre is multilayer, 2.5-3 cm long, the outer bract is triangular ovate to triangular lanceolate, the inner bract is lanceolate, the edge is membranous, glabrous; the receptacle is flat; the flowers are all ligulate, yellow, bisexual, the tongue is narrow lanceolate, the apex is truncate, 5-toothed; the inflorescence is single, with several scaly leaves, or small sessile cauline leaves; Stamens 5; pistils 1, stigmas 2-dichotomous. Achene glabrous or hairy, long tubular; corolla white, pinnate serrate. The flowering period is from April to May.
Green hillside grassland. It is distributed in North China and East China.
② Green onion
Leaves oblong to lanceolate, margin usually undulate curved. Inflorescence involucre bracts 5-Row.
It is distributed in Northeast, northwest and North China.
It is distributed in Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Ningxia and other places. It is also used as medicine.
[collection] in summer and autumn.
[herbal medicine] the dry roots are long cylindrical, over 20 cm long, 6-10 mm in diameter; the surface is brown black, with longitudinal and transverse wrinkles, and the upper part has dense transverse wrinkles. There are many brown hairs (leaf base fiber bundles and vascular bundles) on the head of the roots. The texture is loose and the section is yellow white. The taste is bitter and astringent.
[chemical composition] it contains rubber, inulin and choline.
[nature and taste] 1. In the records of Jiangsu medicinal materials, the taste is slightly bitter and astringent. "
② "Ningxia Chinese herbal medicine manual": "slightly bitter, cold. "
[function indications] records of Jiangsu medicinal materials: "detumescence and detoxification. Treatment of five tuberculosis seven injuries, sores carbuncle swelling. "
[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: mash and apply.
[selection] treatment of sores and breast swelling in women: the root of Allium sativum is broken and applied
Chinese PinYin : Ya Cong
Green onion