Miscanthus sibiricus

Miscanthus sibiricus

(manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment)

[source] it is the whole plant of Millettia miscantha (Scrophulariaceae).

[plant morphology] Millettia miscantha

Annual or biennial erect herbs, 20-40 cm tall, usually divergent above middle. The stem is square, hairy and rootless. Cauline leaves broadly ovate or suborbicular, bracts broadly ovate or suborbicular, apex of marginal teeth awned. Calyx 3.5-5 mm long, 4-lobed, lobes lanceolate triangular, acute. Corolla lip shaped, lobes top concave, head 2-lobed; pale yellow, striped; stamens 4, bracts as long as flowers. The fruit is stored in calyx, capsule and many seeds.

It grows in forest, shrub or mountain grassland. Distributed in Northeast, northwest and other places.

[collection] collected from July to August, cut into sections and dried in the sun.

Bitter, cold.

[meridian tropism] entering lung, spleen and large intestine meridians.

[function indications] clearing away heat and toxin. Treatment of sore throat, pneumonia, cough, mouth sore carbuncle disease.

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-3 yuan.

[prescription selection] ① for pneumonia, cough and sore throat: Xiaomi grass, with gentian, snakeberry and Scutellaria baicalensis, decocted in water.

② Dysentery: Miscanthus, with Xiangqing, Sanguisorba officinalis, decoction.