Sedum dentatum

Sedum dentatum

(Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] medicated tooth grass (Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of Scrophulariaceae.

[plant morphology] dicotyledon

Annual herb, 20-35 cm high. The stem is erect, much branched, and the whole plant is densely covered with hairs. Leaves opposite, sessile, linear lanceolate, apex pointed, margin sparsely serrate, sparsely subentire. Flowers axillary on branch tip, racemose; calyx tubular or campanulate, 4-lobed; corolla purplish red or dirty pink, tubular, galea depressed, apex entire or slightly absent, lower lip nearly equal, 3-lobed; stamens 4, 2 long, 2 short, hidden under galea. Capsule long elliptic or long ovate, compressed, hairy. Seeds numerous, pendulous, longitudinally grooved.

Born in grassland, sandy land, riverbank, hillside grassland, etc. It is distributed from northeast to northwest of China.

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

[chemical constituents] the whole herb contains aucubin and odontoside. It also contains alkaloids.

Bitter, cool and poisonous.

Functions and indications: clearing heat and drying dampness, cooling blood and relieving pain. Treatment of infectious diseases, liver and gallbladder stasis heat, blood stasis pain.

(1) for liver fire, headache and hypochondriac pain: one coin of Herba Cyperi, decoction, three times a day.

② Treatment of liver and gallbladder stasis heat: Herba Cyperi, angelica, Rhizoma Coptidis, gardenia five money each, decoction service, three times a day. (the following is the Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine)