Ganoderma lucidum

Snow (collection of common folk herbs)

[source] the whole plant of Dianthus kansuensis.

[plant morphology] Gansu Province

Perennial short herbs, 5-10 cm high. The main root is long and deep with branches. Most of the stems are clumped, dense and clustered, cushion like, semicircular, 17 cm or more in diameter. The base of the stem is lignified, and the upper part has forked branches. Leaves opposite, slightly stiff, needlelike; above concave, 1-2 cm long, ca. 1 mm wide. The base is slightly amplexicaul and membranous, with rent teeth on the margin. Flowers solitary at the end of branches; pedicels short, 3-5 mm long, pilose; sepals 5, lanceolate, apex sharp, margin membranous, median rib prominent, glabrous; petals 5, obovate, shorter than sepals, white; stamens 10, filaments strip; ovary subglobose, 1-locular, with many ovules, styles 3, filaments. Capsule globose, shorter than persistent sepals; seeds numerous, flat, margin narrowly winged.

Born in the gap of rock mountain or grassland. It is distributed in the west of Sichuan and Qinghai.

[collection] the whole grass was collected and dried in summer.

[nature and taste] Manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment: "slightly sweet, cool. "

[Guijing] Manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment: "entering liver, gallbladder and spleen meridians. "

[function indications] for influenza, pneumonia, jaundice, muscle and bone pain, gonorrhea.

① "Collection of commonly used folk herbal medicines": "treat drenching, turbid disease, cough. "

② "Plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment manual": "clearing away heat and toxin, promoting gallbladder and removing jaundice. Treat flu, pneumonia, muscle and bone pain. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan; or soak in wine.

[selection] ① treatment of jaundice: xuelingzhi with huajinyaozi, Ruixu, jiantangfu. (manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment)

② Treatment of muscle and bone pain: snow ganoderma with, donkey hoof grass, wine service. (manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment)