Alfalfa

Alfalfa

(medicinal plants in desert areas of China)

[synonyms] qierke, narin husenge (Mongolian name), busixiang (Tibetan name).

[source] it is the whole grass of alfalfa.

[plant morphology] alfalfa, also known as lentil seed and Wild Alfalfa.

Perennial erect herbs, 30-100 cm high. The taproot is thick and long. Stems and branches are tetragonal with white hairs. Leaves with 3 leaflets, middle leaflets ovate, narrowly ovate or obovate, 5-12 mm long, 3-7 mm wide, apex rounded or truncate, slightly concave or with small tip, margin serrate, lateral leaflets slightly smaller; petiole about 5 mm long, white pilose; stipules lanceolate. Raceme axillary, 12-20 mm long, with 3-8 flowers; flowers small; pedicel about 1 mm long; calyx simple bell shaped, about 4 mm long, calyx teeth triangular, white pilose; corolla yellow, with purple stripes. Pods flat, oblong, 7-10 mm long, 5 mm wide, surface striated, apex short pointed. Seeds 2-4, rectangular. It's yellowish brown.

Born in sand, canal, roadside, ridge, hillside. Distributed in Liaoning, Jilin, Gansu, Shaanxi, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan and other places.

[collection] from June to July, collect, wash, remove residual leaves and fibrous roots, and air dry.

[nature and taste] Tibetan Plateau medicine illustrated book: "bitter, cold. "

[function indications] Tibetan Plateau medicine illustrated book: "reduce fever, eliminate inflammation, stop bleeding. Oral treatment of lung heat, cough, dysentery. External use of anti-inflammatory, hemostasis. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction. External use: Boil cream.