Taibai antler

Taibai antler

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

Another name: Taibai needle, Euphorbia glauca and litmus chinensis.

[source] it is the lichen body of gymnospermae.

[plant morphology] pistil

Lichens are scaly, growing at the base and upper part of cotyledon stipe, with grayish green surface and grayish white inside, with sparse petals. The stipe is stout, erect and dendritic, shaped like antlers, about 5cm high, about 1.5mm in diameter, grayish white or greenish green, without pollen and needle buds. There are cup-shaped bodies at the top of the body, which are palmate in shape, with a large number of daughter organs on them; the daughter organs are small, hemispherical or mostly combined to form irregular verrucous processes, and the ovary disk is yellowish brown or dark brown.

Born in alpine grassland and rocks. Stone pit or bark, often into a vast expanse of community.

[collection] it can be collected all year round to remove impurities and dry in the sun.

[taste] bitter, flat.

Function indications: Tonglin diuresis, detumescence and detoxification, hemostasis and myogenesis. Treatment of cystitis, adverse urination, eye disease, epistaxis, hematemesis, yellow water sores.

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