Green silk Dragon

Green silk Dragon

(Hunan medical records)

[synonym] Yin Sha Cao, sun Bu die, Yang Sha Cao, di Song Shan, di Qing Song Shan, Shan song LAN.

[source] it is the whole plant of Lycopodiaceae.

[plant morphology] Lycopodium harringtonii

Evergreen perennial epiphytic herbs, 6-16 cm high. Stems tufted, erect or curved, upper stem 2-branched. Leaves leathery, spirally arranged, lanceolate, 1-1.5 cm long, 0.1-0.2 cm wide, apex obtuse, base cuneate, glossy, entire, midrib distinct, lateral veins inconspicuous; sessile. The sporophyll is smaller and grows on the upper part of the branch. It is isomorphic with the vegetative leaf. Sporangia reniform, solitary on abaxial surface of leaves near base.

Epiphytic on rocks and trees in the mountains. It is distributed in Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and Taiwan.

[collection] collected in summer and autumn and dried in the sun.

Bitter, cold and nontoxic.

Functions and indications: clearing heat, breaking blood, detumescence and relieving pain. Treat high fever, headache, cough, diarrhea, swelling and poison.

[taboo] eating too much root may cause nausea.

[selection] 1. To treat high fever: five coins of Pinus thunbergii, three coins of water arrow, nine black bubble leaves (buds), three coins of mouse yellow and two coins of thousand year old ash. Take it in water, three times a day.

② Treatment of cough: Ha's stone pine root two money, tea stone red three money, silk hair spend three money, fried in water.

③ Treatment of swelling and toxin: Lithospermum halleri, centipede seven, tortoise, Aconitum kusnezoffii, iron horse money, a total of smashed, applied to the affected area.

④ Treatment of head lice: the whole grass of Pinus thunbergii, rub with fire wine.