Rat footprints

Rat footprints

(Lu Chuan Ben Cao)

[synonyms] e Bu Shi Cao (flora of Guangzhou), Di Jiao (Herba of Luchuan), toutouju (flora of Guangxi).

[source] it is the whole plant of Compositae.

[plant morphology] Chrysanthemum morifolium

Herbs annual, spreading or creeping, 6-20 cm long, base branched, glabrous or coarsely hairy. Leaves alternate; petiolate; obovate or deltoid oblong, 1-2.5 cm long, apex rounded, margin entire or coarsely toothed. Head, lateral, sessile or shortly stipitate, oblate, ca. 5 mm in diameter; involucre hemispherical, green, bracts round, concave and obtuse; flowers all tubular, heteromorphic; peripheral female flowers, purple; shorter than involucre, most; disk flowers bisexual, less, tube 3-5-lobed. Achene very small, no crown hair. It blooms in summer.

They like to grow in or near rice fields. It is distributed in the south of China.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn

[nature and taste] Lu Chuan Ben Cao: "pungent, warm. "

[function indications] it is used to treat traumatic injuries, swelling and pain of naked eyes.

① Lu Chuan materia medica: "removing blood stasis, relieving pain. Treatment of traumatic swelling and pain, Tianxing naked eye. "

② "Stop bleeding and regulate qi" in Guangxi medical plant directory. For internal injuries, the skill is similar to that of coriander. "

[usage and dosage] external use: tamping.

[selection] treatment of red eye swelling and pain: rat's footprints, Radix Polygoni multiflori and Herba colchicae were used to pound Hegu acupoint. The left eye pain applies to the right, the right eye pain applies to the left. (Lu Chuan Ben Cao)