Felt grass

Felt grass

(Quanzhou materia medica)

[synonyms] jinquemei, jinquehua (Quanzhou green herbal medicine), tiandihua (Quanzhou herbal medicine), dihonghua, xiaomaotai (Fujian herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of calyptratae.

[plant morphology] caltrop

Perennial herbs. The stem is very short. The leaves are basal and inlaid; the leaves are spoon shaped, 1-2 cm long, round and wide at the upper part, gradually narrow at the lower part, without obvious petiole, and densely covered with purplish red glandular hairs, which can reach 5 mm in length. The flower stems are 10-15 cm high, drawn from the leaves; the flowers are light red, lateral to the top of the flower stems, arranged in racemes; sepals 5, persistent; petals 5; stamens 5; styles 3, each 2-lobed. Capsule. It blooms in summer.

It grows on the wet slope of mountain area or beside the ditch of wetland. It is distributed in Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

[nature and taste] Quanzhou materia medica: "sweet, cold, non-toxic. "

[Guijing] Quanzhou materia medica: "entering the heart, lung and stomach. "

[function indications] please quench your thirst, cool your blood and clear your blood. Treatment of cold, lung carbuncle, cough, thirst, hematemesis, hemoptysis, gonorrhea, throat moth, sore.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang fresh. External use: tamping.

[selection] 1. To treat lung heat, lung carbuncle, fever, cough and thirst: one or two pieces of fresh carpet grass, Decoction and honey.

② Cure hematemesis, hemoptysis: fresh carpet grass one or two. Mash minced juice to mix honey.

③ Treatment of single Diptera moth or laryngeal polyp: dry the carpet grass in the sun and blow the throat at the end. Still take one or two to one or two halves of fresh carpet grass and fry it in soup.

④ Treatment of tinea capitis: wipe the affected area with fresh carpet grass (dry first dip rice vinegar and then wipe), once or twice a day.

⑤ Cure all sores: fresh carpet grass plus tung oil, cold rice grain, black sugar tamping.

⑥ Treat all drenching: fresh carpet grass one or two. Fried soup with rock sugar. (1) Quanzhou materia medica

⑦ Treatment of aphthous ulcer: fresh small felt moss, even money grass each appropriate amount, add salt, cold rice or brown sugar a little, mash apply the affected area. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

⑧ Treatment of influenza: fresh small felt moss five to eight money, fried in water. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)