Hemlock

Hemlock

(Honghe Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] qitoufeng, digitalis scabra, pinegrass, yeshangen (Honghe Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of the Compositae.

[plant morphology] reed grass with white back

Perennial herbs. Stem erect, cylindrical, purplish black, branched, longitudinally furrowed, sparsely white pilose. Single leaf alternate, leathery, coarse; leaf linear, 2-5 cm long, 3 mm wide, apex pointed, base auricular amplexicaul, entire, revolute, dark green above, sparsely covered with white short hairs, densely covered with white or brownish yellow long woolly below. The head inflorescence is single, the top of branch and axil of leaf, the pedicel is densely covered with short brown yellow hairs; the bracts are lanceolate linear, 2-3 rows, covered with brown yellow hairs; the tubular disc flower is golden yellow, and the peripheral ligulate flower is bright yellow. Achenes with spiny hairs.

It grows on the dry half hillside grassland. It is distributed in Yunnan and Guangxi.

[collection] collected in summer and autumn, washed, dried or fresh.

[nature and taste] Honghe Chinese herbal medicine: "light, cool. "

[functions and indications] 1. Honghe Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing away heat and toxic substances, promoting diuresis and removing drenching.". "

② List of plants in Guangxi: treatment of malnutrition. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: tamping or frying and washing.

[prescription selection] 1. For mumps treatment: five pieces of dried grass, golden fir, green onion and ginger, fried; external use of green onion, sugar and alum, tamped.

② Treatment of tonsillitis: hay, golden fir, five money, fried.

3. For kidney stones, bladder stones, urethral stones: one or two, fry, and rice wine or Baijiu and sugar.

④ Treatment of conjunctivitis, corneal cloudiness: appropriate amount of fresh grass and golden fir, external washing with boiling water; oral administration at the same time.