Egret and Cymbidium

Egret and Cymbidium

(selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)

[synonym] mountain leek, undead grass, wild leek, wild Ophiopogon japonicus, shudaicao (materia medica of Southern Yunnan), and evergreen grass (textual research on the name and reality of plants).

[source] it is the root of the Liliaceae.

[plant morphology] Egret

Perennial herbs, about 50 cm high, rhizome short and thick, under which clusters of slightly hypertrophic, long fusiform yellow white roots. Leaves basal, succulent, long banded, 6-12 cm long, 1.3 cm wide, apex acuminate, base folded. Raceme terminal; flowers white, ca. 3 cm in diam. Capsule oblate, about 1 cm in diameter, trigonous. Seeds round, black. It blooms in summer.

It grows in the grass on the hillside. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou and other places.

They were collected in autumn.

Sweet and smooth.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "it tastes sweet. "

② "Gan, Ping" in selected Yunnan Chinese herbal medicines. "

[function indications] it is used to treat traumatic injury and bleeding.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "as a dish, it can nourish blood, strengthen spleen, strengthen muscles and bones, and increase strength. "

② "Selection of Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine": "anti inflammation, hemostasis. Treatment of traumatic bleeding. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction. External use: tamping or grinding powder scattering.

[formula selection] ① treatment of traumatic injury: stir the juice of leek root and apply it to the affected area. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

② Treatment of knife injury: the root of Allium tuberosum is mashed with red stone fat, dried in the sun as the end, and twisted with knife and axe. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)