Grasshoppers

Grasshoppers

(real record of plant names)

[source] it is the whole grass of Desmodium tonkinensis.

[plant morphology] leech

Small shrubs, up to 1 m high. Stem base 2.5 mm in diam., angular. 3 compound leaves, apical leaflets elliptic rhombic, apex short acuminate, obtuse, base cuneate, glabrous; about 4.5-8 cm long, 2.1-3.5 cm wide, lateral leaflets smaller, oblong elliptic; petiole 4-7 cm long; stipules lanceolate subulate, 5 mm long. Inflorescence terminal, panicle shaped, 30 cm long, axillary racemose; pedicel 3-5 mm long; flower small, pink, 3.5 mm long; calyx 1.5 mm long, calyx teeth short; corolla butterfly shaped, flag petal round, apex concave, wing petal adnate to keel petal; stamen 10; pistil 1. Pods usually with 2 nodes, dorsally curved, nodes deeply divided to ventral suture, upper truncate, base cuneate, 6 mm long, 3.5 mm wide, surface densely covered with uncinate hairs; peduncle 3-4 mm long. The flowering period is from July to September.

It grows on grass slope or forest edge. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, etc.

[chemical constituents] the leaves contain kaempferin.

Functions and indications: dispel wind and dampness, disperse blood stasis and detumescence. Treatment of asthma, rheumatic pain, collapse in the band, mastitis, traumatic injury.

① "Treatment of asthma" in the textual research on the names and facts of plants. "

② "Hunan medicine records": "treatment of rheumatoid arthritis pain, mastitis ulceration, food poisoning. "

③ Jiangxi herbal medicine manual: "removing blood stasis to stop bleeding, detumescence to relieve pain. In the treatment of avalanche, the patients were injured by falling and snakebite. "

[selection] 1. Treatment of chancroid disease: four bucks of locust, two bucks of wolf grass, five bucks of Crotalaria. Take it in water. (Hunan medical records)

② Measles treatment: Mountain locust one money and five cents, wild sorghum two money, Vitex two money, wild hemp one money and five cents, pepper two money. Take it in water. (Hunan medical records)