Daylily

Daylily

(commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet)

[synonym] Xiangqing.

[source] it is the whole grass of the Compositae plant Xiangqing, Nepal.

[plant morphology] Dracaena nepalensis

Perennial herb, stem erect, 10-30 cm high. Leaves alternate, sessile, oblong to oblong lanceolate, entire, tomentose on both sides. Inflorescence, usually several to more than 10, forming a cyme, pedicel long; involucral bract petaloid, white, dry membranous, opaque. Achenes small, oblong; corolla white

Born on roadsides, hillsides, grass. Distributed in Tibet, Gansu, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Yunnan and other places.

[collection] harvest, wash and dry after flowering from July to September.

Sweet and smooth.

Functions and indications: cool and detoxify, calm cough and asthma. Treatment of cold cough, acute and chronic tracheitis, rheumatic leg pain, hypertension.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-3 yuan.