Chinese fir leaf algae

Chinese fir leaf algae

(commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet)

[synonym] dangbugari (Tibetan name).

[source] it is the whole plant of Taxodiaceae.

[plant morphology] Cunninghamia lanceolata

Aquatic herb, 10-60 cm high, with rhizomes, the upper part of the plant often exposed to the water. Stem erect, unbranched. Leaves whorled, 4-12, 1-whorled, strip-shaped, undivided, 1-1.8 cm long, 0.2 cm wide, slightly curved or straight, longer and brittle in water. Flowers small, usually bisexual, less unisexual, sessile, solitary in leaf axils; without perianth; stamen 1, on ovary, slightly on one side: ovary inferior, elliptic. Drupe elliptic.

In shallow water or river grass. It is distributed in Northeast, two north, North and southwest of North China.

[collection] harvest from June to September.

Bitter, slightly sweet and cool.

① Common Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet: "cool, bitter. "

② "Plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment manual": "slightly sweet, cool. "

[Guijing] Manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment: "entering the liver, kidney and stomach three meridians. "

Functions and indications: clearing heat and cooling blood, promoting body fluid and nourishing fluid.

① "Tibetan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "antitussive, liver soothing, blood heat clearing, bone steaming. Treatment of tuberculosis cough, flank pain, tuberculosis heat bone steam. "

② "Plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment manual": "cooling blood to stop bleeding, nourishing yin to generate fluid, treating high fever, thirst, gastrointestinal inflammation. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-4 yuan. External use: grind and sprinkle.

[selected formula] treatment of traumatic bleeding: stem and leaf of Chinese fir, grind and sprinkle.