Milky white and fragrant green

Milky white and fragrant green

(manual of common Chinese herbal medicine in Qinghai)

[synonym] Blumea balsamifera and Blumea balsamifera.

[source] it is the dried whole grass of milky white fragrant green, a Compositae plant.

[plant morphology] milky white and fragrant green

It is a perennial herb, 15-30 cm high, densely covered with gray white villi. Rhizome lignified, branched. Stems tufted, erect. Leaf blade linear oblong, 2-11 cm long, apex obtuse or apiculate, base cuneate, entire. The basal leaves and lower stem leaves have long stalks, the middle and upper stem leaves have no stalks, and the base extends into stem wings; the head inflorescences are numerous, gathered into compound corymbose; the involucre is bell shaped, 5-8 mm in diameter, several layers of involucre, white in upper part, light brown in lower part, dry membranous; the flowers are heteroecious or dioecious, the female flowers are tubular, solid, bisexual, tubular, and fruitless. Achene yellowish brown, long cylindrical, less than 1 mm long; corolla white, one layer, coarsely hairy.

It grows on hillsides, grasslands and shrubs. It is distributed in Northwest China.

[collection] when the flowers are not open in summer, the whole plant is taken and dried in the sun.

Hard work, cold.

Functions and indications: promoting blood circulation, dispersing blood stasis, calming liver and suppressing yang, eliminating phlegm. External hemostasis.

[prescription selection] ① treatment of blood stasis mass: five coins of balsam pear, three coins of shuihonghuazi, two coins of qingmuxiang, fried in water.

② Treatment of liver yang hyperactivity: spear xiangai five money, Prunella four money, chrysanthemum three money, peony three money, decoction.

③ Treatment of lung heat cough: spear xiangai Wuqian, Shashen Siqian, Chuanbeimu Erqian, decoction.

④ Treatment of traumatic bleeding: spear balsamine appropriate amount, research fine powder, external application of the affected area.