Ant grass in Tianshui

Ant grass in Tianshui

(a textual research on the names and facts of plants)

[synonym] baishuqu grass (Chinese medicinal plant Atlas), shiqugu, Baitiao soup (Mindong materia medica), shanguohua, maoshuqu, suiyicao, huanghuacao, xiaomihua (Jiangxi herbal medicine); big leaf Qinghua, suiyeqinghua, dabaiai, qingjiecao, maoshurou, Huocao, yehuocao, leigongqing, salicylhuagan, dashuicao (Hunan medicinal records).

[source] it is the whole plant of the Compositae plant Kojima angustifolia.

[plant morphology] Kaempferia angustifolia

Annual herbs. The stem is 30-80 cm high, hard and densely covered with white wool. Leaves alternate; linear, 4-5 cm long, 2.5-7 mm wide, apex pointed, entire, base half embracing, upper green, sparsely woolly, lower white, densely woolly; leaves of lower part of stem wither when flowering. Inflorescence terminal, compound corymbose arrangement; involucral bracts 5 layers, dry membranous, white or light yellow, outer layer shorter, broadly ovate. It has white hair, long oval or oval inner layer, smooth; the flowers are all tubular flowers, yellow, the style of the surrounding female flowers is equal to or slightly longer than the corolla; the flower tube of the central bisexual flower is slender, the apex is 5-toothed; the stamen is 5-medicated, the base is arrow shaped, the caudate fiber is small; the pistil is 1, the ovary is inferior, and the stigma is 2-lobed. Achene oblong, yellow white corolla. The flowering period is from September to October.

Born on the hillside. Wasteland. It's distributed all over the country.

[collection] harvest in summer.

[taste] sweet and bitter, flat.

① "Mindong Materia Medica": "the nature is flat, the taste is light and slightly bitter. "

② Jiangxi herbal medicine: "Gan, Ping. "

③ "Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine": "taste slightly bitter, cold nature. "

[Guijing] Mindong materia medica: "entering lung and liver meridians. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind, dispersing lung and resolving phlegm, removing dampness and toxin. Treatment of cold, cough, phlegm, asthma, eczema, leg ulcers.

① Textual research on the names and facts of plants: "tonifying muscles and bones. "

② "Chinese medicine plant atlas": cough, phlegm. Treatment of asthma and bronchitis. "

③ Mindong materia medica: "it can clear away heat, remove phlegm, lower Qi and detoxify. Treatment of lung heat cough, infantile diarrhea, asthma for a long time. "

④ Jiangxi herbal medicine: "dispelling wind and relieving cough. Treatment of cold, cough, chronic leg ulcers, rubella block, otitis media. "

⑤ "Moistening the lung and resolving phlegm, relieving cough and asthma, and lowering blood pressure" is stated in the Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine published by Su Yi. It can cure cold, cough, chronic bronchitis, asthma, hypertension, gastric ulcer, dysmenorrhea, traumatic injury, skin ulceration, eczema, rheumatism, muscle and bone pain. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: tamping.

[prescription selection] ① for wind cold and cough: eight coins of fresh autumn sage. Stew in boiling water. (Mindong materia medica)

② Cure cold: Autumn rat Curcuma seven money, ginger three pieces. Take it in water. (Jiangxi herbal medicine)

③ Jianwei Huatan: Autumn rat Curcuma leaves, flowers. Wash, mash and rice flour for pastry. (Mindong materia medica)

④ Treatment of golden sore bleeding: Autumn rat grass leaf flower mash apply the affected area. (Mindong materia medica)

⑤ Treatment of chronic ulcer of lower limbs: koji grass (fresh) appropriate amount, a little brown sugar, mashed topical. (Jiangxi herbal medicine)

⑥ Treatment of children with acute convulsion: Autumn Curcuma three money, Uncaria three money. Take it in water. (Hunan medical records)

⑦ Treatment of body deficiency phlegm, hematemesis, Curcuma three money, Rubia three money, pheasant bubble three money, line chicken tail two money. Take it in water. (Jiangxi herbal medicine)