Green arrow grass

Green arrow grass

(Guizhou folk medicine)

Another name: Dachaihu, yinchaihu and malantou (Guizhou folk medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of Magnolia tomentosa.

[plant morphology] Magnolia tomentosa

Perennial herbs, 50-100 cm high. Stems erect, all short hairy. The leaves on the stem are oval or elliptic in shape, 4-6 cm long and 1.5-2 cm wide, apex pointed or obtuse, basal part extending into short stalks or almost sessile, margin with serrations of different depths, with hairs below. Inflorescence arranged in corymbose, pedunculate, ca. 1.5 cm in diameter; involucre campanulate, bracts 3-row, hairy, outer row shorter, elliptic, inner row longer, linear; ligulate flower 1-row, white, female, tongue length about 7 mm, tube length about 2.5 mm; tubular flower yellow, bisexual, length about 6 mm, stamen 5, anther base obtuse and entire, ovary inferior, stigma, 2-lobed. Achenes hairy; corolla brownish yellow. It blooms in autumn.

It is distributed in East China and southwest China.

[collection] harvest in summer.

[flavor] cool, slightly bitter and pungent.

[function indications] sweating, relieving exterior, regulating qi, relieving pain.

[prescription selection] ① to treat sudden chest pain like stab: three cents and five cents for the leaves of Cymbidium glabripennis, two cents and five cents for the leaves of Artemisia tianhaozi, and three cents for the heart of bamaoxin. Mash the boiled water, take the juice and take the medicine (rub the pain with the medicine residue). One glass at a time, three times in a row.

② Treatment of body pain, sometimes chest pain through the back: green arrow grass three money, iron arrow wind root two money. A total of mash, to eat rice water. Half a cup at a time.

③ Treatment of wind heat and cold: Rhizoma curculiariae, Fructus Arctii, Radix perilla, Radix sangshugen and Rhizoma Momordica. Boiled water, three times a day, half a rice bowl each time.

④ Treatment of snake bite: first, prick the scalp (Baihui) to get micro blood, then mash and apply it with appropriate amount of green arrow grass, and fan it frequently until it is cool and yellow water comes out of the sore, and the disease will be alleviated. (the following is Guizhou folk medicine)