Dew grass 1

Dew grass 1

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

[source] it is the whole grass with roots of thrush grass.

[plant morphology] thrush grass

Perennial herbs, 30-50 cm high. Culms tufted, erect or base slightly inclined, base compressed. Leaf blade linear, 10-25 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, often involute, apex long acuminate; leaf sheath flat, sheath mouth with white pilose; ligule truncated. Panicle developed, 15-18 cm long, branches nearly whorled or solitary, more tortuous; spikelet petiole thin and weak, spikelets black, florets 3-8; glumes lanceolate, apex acuminate, veined; lemma ovate oblong, loosely arranged, palea slightly shorter than lemma, often persistent, apex truncated; anthers yellow. The flowering and fruiting period is from April to September.

It grows on hillside grassland. Distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Gansu and other places.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

[flavor] sweet, flat.

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, relieving cough and relieving pain.

[selection] ① for pertussis: Yilu Shuicao Wuqian, garlic Sanban, Platycodon grandiflorum Erqian. Simmer water clothes. Two dew water grass root, dry grind, each time five to one money, with ginger sugar water swallow.

② Treatment of acute abdominal pain (Lu Shui Sha): Lu Shui Cao Gen San Qian. Chew raw or simmer water.