Snake eye grass

Snake eye grass

(Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonyms] hemp grass, powder grass (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine), yuguotiangao (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine), iris leaf fengmaoju (Chinese higher plant Atlas).

[source] it is the whole grass or root of the Compositae plant Saussurea lineata.

[plant morphology] Saussurea lineata

Perennial herbs, 20-35 cm high. The root is hypertrophy, short and thick, conic, with fine fibrous roots. The leaves are linear, 15-30 cm long and 0.5-1 cm wide, with white hairs on both sides, especially dense below. Capitate inflorescence, 3-4 cm in diameter, solitary at the top of short flower stem, with closely arranged involucral bracts, flower stem densely covered with white filamentous villi; flowers purple, tubular. Achenes glabrous and glabrous. It blooms in summer.

Born on hillside grassland. It is distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan and other places.

[collection] harvest in late autumn.

[nature and taste] selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan: "bitter, cool. "

[functions and indications] 1. Selected Yunnan Chinese herbal medicines: "detoxification, stasis dispersing, pain relieving. Treatment of rheumatism, numbness, joint pain, traumatic injury, high fever. "

② Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "Jiedu Xiaoji. Treatment of snakebite, infantile malnutrition. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: grind the end of sesame oil to adjust and apply.