Ixeris sonchifolia

Ixeris sonchifolia

(list of medicinal plants in Guangxi)

[synonym] qituolian, xiaokumaicai (Guangxi Medicinal plant directory), Kucai, huangshucao, Xiaokucao, huoxuecao, yinxuedan, xiaokuixi (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of Ixeris Sonchus.

[plant morphology] Ixeris sonchifolia

Perennial herbs, 20-40 cm high. With slender stolons or rhizomes. The leaves are linear lanceolate or grate lanceolate, 7-20 cm long and 1.5-8 cm wide, apex obtuse or pointed, margin sparsely pinnate or undivided; base narrowly stipitate; stem leaves only 1-2, sessile, slightly clasping. Inflorescence arranged in loose corymbose panicles; involucre about 8 mm long, outer bract very small, oval, inner bract linear lanceolate, apex pointed or obtuse; ligulate flower yellow or white, tongue apex 5-toothed; stamen 5, anther black; ovary inferior, style upper hairy, stigma 2-lobed, black. Achene narrowly lanceolate; ca. 4 mm long, beaked, with 10 longitudinal ribs on both sides, reddish brown when mature; 1-layer corolla, white and soft. The flowering period is from April to May.

It grows in the field. It is distributed in the north, East and south of China.

[collection] harvest in early spring.

[functions and indications] 1. The list of medicinal plants in Guangxi: "antidiarrhea, detumescence. Treatment of snakebite, urinary calculi. "

② Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing away heat and toxin, purging lung fire, cooling blood, stopping bleeding, relieving pain, regulating menstruation, activating blood circulation, transforming putrefaction into muscle. Treatment of unknown swelling, scrotal eczema, pneumonia, traumatic injury, fracture. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-3 yuan. External use: tamping or frying and washing.