Echinochloa crusgalli

Echinochloa crusgalli

(materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

[synonyms] hongguosha, Wuhe, hanbarnyard grass (Yunnan materia medica), hongbarnyard grass, wild red rice grass, water sorghum, wild chicken barnyard grass, red rice, wild sorghum (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine), Echinochloa crusgalli, mountain sorghum (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine selection).

[source] it is the fruit, root or whole grass of barnyardgrass.

[plant morphology] Echinochloa crusgalli

Herbaceous perennial. The rhizome goes horizontally. Stem triangular. The leaves are linear, 30-50 cm long, apex long and pointed, and the leaf sheaths are bald. Bracts are leaflike, linear, brown; spikes are numerous, densely forming terminal panicles; scales are light brown, ovate, imbricate; stamens are 3; bracts ovate, short beaked, red. Nutlets ovate triangular, brownish red, enclosed in persistent bracts. It blooms in spring and summer.

In the side of forest or sparse forest. It is distributed in Southwest China.

[collection] harvest, wash and dry in autumn.

[nature and taste] 1. South Yunnan materia medica 9: "rice: sweet; shell: astringent; root and leaf: bitter and astringent, slightly cold.". "

② "Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine": "fruit: sweet, slightly pungent, slightly cold. "

Function indications: cool blood and stop bleeding. Treatment of irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia, epistaxis, gastrointestinal bleeding.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "it is specially used to treat women's bleeding due to dispersing menstruation. "

② "Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine": "fruit: through the surface cough, tonifying diuresis; root: stop bleeding and regulate menstruation. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang.

[prescription selection] ① it is used to treat the deficiency of Qi and blood, deficiency of kidney and liver, dizziness and tinnitus in menstruation, five heart trouble and heat, backache, cold abdominal pain, distension, palpitation, and pale yellow blood in three days, five days and seven or eight days, so it has the name of dispersing menstruation and blood stasis; or too much water in the moon, it will become collapse, or it has become blood collapse: Echinochloa crusgalli, five coins, decoction, water and wine. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

② Treatment of metrorrhagia, menorrhagia, postpartum hemorrhage: Echinochloa crusgalli root two Liang. Brown sugar, pepper as the guide, fried in water.

③ Treatment of varicella, pertussis, epistaxis, gastrointestinal bleeding: barnyard grass five to eight money. Take it in water.

④ Measles: Echinochloa crusgalli fruit five money. Take it in water.

⑤ Treatment of anal prolapse: Echinochloa crusgalli fruit two Liang. Stewed pig large intestine. (2) Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine is listed below.)