Sardine

Sardine

(compendium)

[synonym] shaojincao (compendium), leopard medicine, bitter horse vegetable, rice soup vegetable, chicken wormwood, white millet vegetable (Guizhou folk medicine), tadixiang (Guizhou traditional Chinese medicine prescription), longgencao, fanbaiye (Guizhou herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole grass or the whole grass with roots of the Compositae plant.

[plant morphology] Sargassum

Perennial herbs, spring and autumn. The plant of spring type is short and small, 8-19cm high; the flower stem is erect, with dense white arachnoid hairs at the beginning, gradually falling off and several linear bracts on it; the leaves at the base are clustered, rosette shaped, elliptic and broadly ovate, 2-5.5cm long and 1.5-4.5cm wide, with blunt apex and heart-shaped base. Autumn type plants are tall, 30-60 cm high. The basal leaves are oblong needle shaped or elliptic broadly ovate, 5-16 cm long and 3-5.5 cm wide. The apex is obtuse, the base gradually narrows into a stalk, the edge is fiddle shaped and pinnate, the apical lobes are ovate, the edge has irregular round teeth, the tooth end is convex, the top is green, and the bottom is dense with white arachnoid hairs. Inflorescence solitary, diameter about 2 cm; involucre simple bell shaped, 8-10 mm long, 5-10 mm wide; bracts about 3 layers, outer bracts shorter, linear, inner bracts linear lanceolate; ligulate purple red, 10-12 mm long; tubular flowers about 7 mm long. Achene 4.5-6 mm long, both ends contracted; corolla 4.5-5 mm long.

In slope, roadside, field or bush. It is distributed in most parts of the country.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn and wash. Dry in the sun.

[nature and taste] Guizhou folk medicine: "bitter, warm, non-toxic. "

[function indications] dispel wind dampness and detoxify. It can cure rheumatism, numbness, cough, asthma and sore.

① Guizhou folk medicine: "treating rheumatism and numbness. "

② Guizhou herbal medicine: "expelling wind and removing dampness, stopping cough and asthma, detoxifying. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decocting soup or soaking wine. External use: tamping.

[prescription selection] ① for rheumatism and numbness: one or two leopard drugs. Wine making clothes.

② Cure cough and asthma: Leopard medicine two money. Take it in boiling water with brown sugar.

③ Treatment of sores: Leopard root appropriate amount of medicine, tamping down on the affected area. And treat animal bites. (Guizhou herbal medicine was selected)