Single grass

Single grass

(a textual research on the names and facts of plants)

[synonym] Xingxiu vegetable (salvaging materia medica), lingjicao (investigation of plant medicine in Shaanxi), xiaoborax (investigation of plant medicine in Guizhou).

[source] it is the whole plant of Primulaceae.

[plant morphology] Lysimachia sorbifolia

Annual erect herb, glabrous. The stem is 18-60 cm high, sometimes with reddish base. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite; lanceolate, or elliptic lanceolate, or linear, 2-4 cm long, 3-10 mm wide, apex pointed or acuminate, base tapering to stipe with narrow wings, entire or slightly undulate. Inflorescence conic broad racemose, sometimes densely corymbose, fruit elongated; bracts linear chisel like; sepals elliptic lanceolate or linear, acuminate, ca. 3 mm long; corolla white, 2 times as long as calyx, lobes elliptic obovate, slightly shorter than tube; stamens attached to the upper part of corolla, slightly shorter than lobes; style as long as stamens. Capsule rounded, ca. 3 mm in diam. The flowering and fruiting period is from May to July.

It is distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Shandong, Shanxi, etc.

[collection] harvest from April to June. Fresh or sun dried.

[nature and taste] investigation of plant medicine in Guizhou: "pungent, cool. "(toxic)

Functions and indications: antipyretic, cooling and activating blood. Treatment of hemorrhoids, swelling and poison, injury and pain.

① "Xiwai kidney is red and swollen. "

② "Shaanxi plant medicine investigation": "regulating menstruation, hemostasis. "

③ "Investigation of plant medicine in Guizhou": relieving exterior symptoms and clearing away heat. "

④ "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "treatment of hemorrhoids, unknown swelling poison. "

[selected formula] for the treatment of traumatic fracture, pain relief: three to five liang of Lysimachia sorbifolia. Mash and apply to the affected area according to the size of the injury. (selected works of the whole exhibition: surgery)