Auricularia crassifolia

Auricularia crassifolia

(selected new therapies and Chinese herbal medicine, Xiamen)

[synonym] jiejiehua.

[source] it is the whole plant of Rubiaceae.

[plant morphology] Eupatorium macrophyllum

Annual scattered herbs. Branches rough or hirsute. Leaves sessile, submembranous or papery, lanceolate to ovate elliptic, 2.5-6.5 cm long, 6-20 mm wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate, both sides or coarsely hairy, margin dorsiflexed; stipules with few long eyelashes, 4-5 mm long. The flowers are white, fragrant and sessile; the calyx is about 3 mm long, coarsely hairy; the Corolla is about 4.5 mm long, with tufts at the top. Capsule ovate, 2.5 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, coarsely hairy. It blooms in autumn.

Born on the wet hillside. It is distributed in the south of China.

[collection] the whole grass was collected in autumn, dried or fresh.

Sweet and smooth.

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, detoxifying, detumescence and relieving pain.

[selection] 1. Treatment of poliomyelitis: fresh Auricularia crassifolia and gourd tea. Take it in water.

② Treatment of gastritis: fresh coarse leaf ear grass five money to one or two, decoction.

② Treatment of gastritis: fresh coarse leaf ear grass five money to one or two, decoction.

③ Treatment of cold and fever: fresh coarse leaf ear grass one or two, fried in water.

④ Treatment of snakebite: fresh coarse leaf ear grass one or two, decoction; slag smash external application wound.