Water hemp leaf

Water hemp leaf

(Guizhou folk medicine)

Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch.

[source] it is a whole plant of Urticaceae.

Cold water flower

Herbs annual, glabrous, 30-60 cm high. Leaves opposite, ovate elliptic to ovate lanceolate, 7-12 cm long, 4 cm wide, apex acuminate, base broadly cuneate, margin coarsely serrate, 3 main veins; petiole 2-7 cm long; stipules exfoliative. Cyme loose, white flowers, unisexual; male perianth 4-lobed, lobes short, apex slightly curved, stamen 4; female perianth, 3 or 4-lobed, lobes unequal, stigma brush head. Achenes enclosed by persistent calyx. The flowering period is from August to September.

Born in Forest Stone cracks, or wet ditch. It is distributed in the Yangtze River Basin and its south.

[collection] collected after autumn.

[flavor] light bitter, cool, non-toxic.

Functions and indications: diuresis, heat clearing and jaundice removing.

[should avoid] pregnant women should not take it.

[prescription selection] ① jaundice treatment, yellow body: fresh soil licorice, Salix, raw gardenia, huangpaocigen, Liquidambar formosana. Add a little brown sugar, decoction, twice a day.

② Treatment of tuberculosis: soil licorice one or two, wine service.