Limbic grass

Limbic grass

(Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] Lanmei.

[source] the flowers and leaves of Arnebia.

[plant morphology] Limonium dentatum

Perennial herbs, 20-30 cm high. Stem with many short branches, gray sericeous. The basal leaves are slightly spatulate, 3-6 cm long; the stem leaves are linear, 1-3 cm long. Raceme short, 1-2 cm long, slightly elongated at fruiting stage; flower small, blue; calyx 5-lobed; corolla eaves 5-lobed; stamen 5-lobed; ovary 4-lobed, stigma oblate. Nutlets gyroscopic, margin with short spines, not anchored, spines usually bluish.

It grows on rocky hillside or rock crack. It is distributed in Inner Mongolia and Northeast China.

[collection] collect in summer and autumn, dry in the shade.

Bitter and sweet, cold.

[function indications] clearing away heat. Treatment of cold, warm heat, vasculitis.

[prescription selection] 1. To treat influenza fever: 1.5 Fen of Limonium dentatum, decocted in water, three times a day.

② Treatment of cold and high fever: Herba Cynanchi, dangyao, mubiezi, Siberian moxa chrysanthemum, caoheche, Terminalia chebula, etc. Research fine noodles, three times a day, each time one money to one money five minutes, decoction warm.