Sound color grass

Sound color grass

(Guangzhou Air Force Manual of common Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] mantianxingcao (flora of Guangzhou), laoku Cao, guoqiongcao (materia medica of Quanzhou), guangbaitouweng, xingsege (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Air Force).

[source] it is the whole plant of Caryophyllaceae.

[plant morphology] white drum nail

Annual generation of perennial herbs, white pubescence, 15-25 cm high. Stems slender and hard, dichotomous branched, numerous. Leaves narrowly linear to conic apex, rarely linear lanceolate, flat or margin retrorse. The longer ones are 12-25 mm long, the upper leaves are small and scattered; stipules are long lanceolate, apex long and pointed, about half of the length of leaves. Flowers numerous, dense, terminal, corymbose or cymose, sometimes densely at the top of a single stem, sometimes cymose numerous in panicle arrangement; bracts membranous; sepals 5, lanceolate, white, membranous, ca. 2.5 mm, apex apical; petals 5. Seperate, broadly ovate, apex obtuse, shorter than sepals; stamens 5; short; style short. Fruit ovoid or oblong, shorter than sepals, 3-valved. The flowering period is from spring to autumn.

Born in hilly sandy land. Distributed in Fujian, Guangdong and other places.

[collection] harvest in summer.

[flavor] Quanzhou materia medica: "sweet, flat, non-toxic. "

[Guijing] Quanzhou materia medica: "entering the heart, liver, lung and stomach channels. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, detoxifying and urinating. For dysentery, enteritis, gonorrhea, dysuria, carbuncle, swelling and poison.

① "Quanzhou Materia Medica": "clear fire poison and stagnant heat, open chest and benefit diaphragm. It can cure the stagnation of Qi in the middle of the body, relieve the dampness, urinate, milk, detumescence and all poisonous insects and snake injuries. "

② Guangzhou Air Force's Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing away heat and toxin, removing dampness and diuresis. Treatment of acute bacillary dysentery, enteritis, solid ascites, dyspepsia. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang; or mashed juice. External use: tamping.

[prescription selection] ① treatment of heat drenching, short and astringent urination pain: fresh white drum nail whole grass one or two, decoction.

② Treatment of carbuncle swelling poison: fresh white drum nail whole grass mash applied to the affected area.

③ Treatment of insect and snake bite: fresh white drum nail whole grass two liang, mash juice orally, residue applied to the affected area. (Quanzhou materia medica was selected)