Earth plaster

Earth plaster

(common folk herbs in Kunming)

[synonym] Bergenia Rapa and Artemisia argyrophylla (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List) and rabbitae (Guizhou medicinal plant list).

[source] it is the leaf or whole grass of the compound family plant.

[plant morphology] serrula serrulata, also known as serrula serrulata.

Perennial herbs, 30-100 cm high. Stem erect, solitary or several stems clustered, densely covered with white wool. The basal leaves are larger, obovate lanceolate, 8-12 cm long and 2.5-3 cm wide; the stem leaves are alternate, sessile, obovate lanceolate, gradually narrowed upward, 4-9 cm long and 1-2.5 cm wide, apex pointed, base gradually narrowed into pterygoid petiole and embracing stem. The flower stem is about 34 cm high, with head like inflorescence, discoid, compound corymbose, involucre 5-6 rows, white and light red halo. Achene small, long elliptic, 1 row of crown hairs, flowering in late autumn and early winter.

It grows in grass on hillside and roadside. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi.

[collection] it is usually fresh, and can also be harvested in autumn and dried in the sun.

"Bitter" is commonly used in Kunming. "

[function indications] clearing away heat and toxin. For dysentery, infantile convulsion, aphthous ulcer, sore poison, traumatic bleeding.

① "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "treat dysentery, rheumatism, infantile convulsion, asthma. "

② "Guizhou medicine plant catalog": "treatment of children's mouth ulcers, red and white dysentery. "

③ "Kunming folk commonly used herbs": "anti inflammation, scattered swelling, hemostasis. It is used to treat positive sores and poisons, and bleeding from knife wounds. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: tamping.