Red hair grass

Red hair grass

(records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

[synonyms] dijiucai (Tianbao materia medica), tianmangzhen (Fuzhou herbal medicine), dilanhua and yatongzhi (Sichuan herbal medicine records), ditanhua and shanhaidai (Chongqing herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of gymnostachys nudiflora.

[plant morphology] Phyllostachys nudiflora leaves

It is a perennial herb. The fibrous roots are well developed. The stem is tufted, lying transversely, fleshy, with adventitious roots at nodes, obvious nodes, purple internodes and many branches. Leaves alternate, slightly fleshy; linear lanceolate, 3-10 cm long, about 1 cm wide, dark green on the top, sometimes with purple spots on both sides below, whole margin, purplish red on the edge; with leaf sheath, stem nodes, bright purplish red, with bristles on the edge. It is a racemose cyme, which grows at the top of branches or at the top of leaf axils. The diameter of flowers is 1.2 cm; calyx is 3, long ovate, apex slightly pointed, green; petal is 3, obovate, 1 / 3 longer than calyx, blue purple; stamen is 6, 2 of which are developed, anther is black, 1 has only filaments, 3 degenerate, the filaments are slightly short, the top is flat butterfly shaped anther, yellow, all filaments are blue purple Ovary 3-locular, 2 ovules per locule. The fruit has 2 seeds per locule. The flowering period is from August to September.

It grows in wet ditch and wasteland. Distributed in Fujian, Guangdong, Sichuan and other places.

[collection] harvest in summer and dry in the sun.

[nature and taste] 1. Tianbao materia medica: "warm nature. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "sweet and light in taste, flat in nature, non-toxic. "

[function indications] clearing lung heat, detumescence and toxin. Treatment of lung heat, cough, hematemesis, mastitis, swelling and toxin.

① "Tianbao Materia Medica": "resolving phlegm, clearing fire, stopping bleeding. It can clear three jiao fire, remove blood stasis and generate new energy. "

② "Collection of commonly used folk herbs": "clearing heat, relieving cough. To cure hematemesis. "

③ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "clearing lung heat, promoting blood circulation, detumescence and toxin. It can cure cough and hematemesis. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 1-5 yuan. External use: tamping.

[selected formula] red hair grass, wild chrysanthemum leaf, amaranth, hibiscus leaf and horseshoe grass are used to treat redness and swelling of mastitis. The affected area was covered with rammed velvet. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)