Cricoid grass

Cricoid grass

(commonly used folk herbs in Guangxi)

[synonym] small Dendrobium, Huangcao, jizhaolan, jinchaicao, Chlorophytum (Guangxi Traditional Chinese veterinary medicine plant), earring grass, fine grass, small Jinchai, fine ring grass (Guangxi Folk commonly used herbs).

[source] it is the whole plant of Dendrobium gracile.

[plant morphology] Dendrobium gracile

Perennial herbs, 50-80 cm high. Root like. Internodes long, yellowish brown or glabrous, internodes glabrous, surface not easily glabrescent. Single leaf alternate, linear lanceolate, nearly sessile, 4-4.5 cm long, about 1 cm wide; dark green on both sides, bald, with parallel veins on the base. Raceme axillary, inflorescence 3-4 cm long, 3-4 nodes, each node has a bract, astatine, broadly lanceolate; perianth 6, arranged in two rounds, outer 3, broadly lanceolate, light pink; inner 3, smaller, 2 similar, pink, with purple longitudinal lines, the other one with a small cystic lip, purple red; stamen 1, with style into a stamen; ovary lower, 1-locular. No results. The flowering period is from June to July.

Epiphytic in wet rocks or trees. It is distributed in Guangdong and Guangxi.

[collection] all year round. To clean the leaves and fibrous roots, fresh or steamed to dry.

[nature and taste] Guangxi Folk commonly used herbs: "sweet, flat, non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: Nourishing Yin, clearing heat, strengthening spleen and stomach. The treatment of fever injures Yin and tuberculosis injures hemoptysis.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan (1-2 Liang fresh).

[taboo] "Guangxi Folk commonly used herbal medicine": "the body is empty but without heat, do not take it. "

[prescription selection] 1. To treat tuberculosis and hemoptysis: shenghuancao (one or two herbs) is taken in the same way as pig heart and lung. (commonly used folk herbs in Guangxi)

② Treating febrile diseases and injuring Yin: ganhuancao Sanqian, baiyagen one or two. Take it in water. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)