Arrowhead

Arrowhead

(Honghe Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] oxytocin and Ganoderma lucidum.

[source] it is the whole grass of Miscanthus Sagittarius.

[plant morphology] Miscanthus Sagittarius

Perennial herbs. Stem erect, tufted, 60-100 cm high. Leaf blade linear lanceolate, 8-30 cm long, 8-15 mm wide, apex acuminate, base 2-lobed, arrowhead shaped, with petiole 10 cm long, with slender warty hairs on the lower surface; leaf sheath smooth glabrous; ligule membranous, 2-4 mm long. Panicle 9-15 cm long, branches nearly whorled, spikelets 5-6.5 mm long, gray green, twin spikelets one stipitate one sessile, two spikelets equal, villous; spikelets with two flowers, the first male, the second bisexual.

It grows in the mountains and undergrowth. It is distributed in Yunnan.

[collection] it can be harvested, washed, dried or fresh all year round.

[flavor] light, flat.

[function indications] hemostasis and oxytocin. Treatment of menorrhagia, dystocia, chest tightness, bloating, impotence.

[prescription selection] ① for menorrhagia: fresh Cigu grass is worth five to one or two yuan, and flowers under the leaves are worth five yuan.

② Dystocia treatment (in fetal position, birth canal under normal circumstances): Cigu grass five money, Selaginella five money, fried.

③ Treatment of chest tightness, bloating, impotence: fresh Cigu grass five money to one or two, fried.