Sweet grass

Sweet grass

(Jiangxi herbal medicine)

[synonym] wild licorice, mountain licorice.

[source] it is the whole plant of Rubiaceae.

[plant morphology] Eupatorium cantonensis

Herbs annual, erect, glabrous, 30-50 cm high, base woody. Branches cylindrical or with inconspicuous angles. Leaves leathery, opposite; leaves oblong lanceolate or ovate elliptic, 4-7 cm long and 1-3 cm wide; petioles short, with triangular stipules at the base. Flowers small, white, short petiole, dense cyme; calyx 2-3 mm long, lobes triangular; corolla 5-6 mm long, tube narrow, throat slightly enlarged, lobes ovate lanceolate, about as long as tube. Capsule small, subglobose, dehiscent.

Born on sunny hillside and wasteland. It is distributed in Guangdong, Jiangxi and other places.

[collection] harvest in summer.

[nature and taste] it is flat in nature and sweet in taste.

[function indications] clearing away heat and toxin.

[selection] 1. Treatment of icteric hepatitis: two pairs of Canton earwort, two pairs of orchid grass, two pairs of tiger thorn root and two pairs of pig liver. Stew in water, take soup and eat liver.

② Treatment of traumatic bleeding: Guangzhou ear grass leaf, pepper leaf each appropriate amount. Dry in the sun, grind in the powder, and apply sesame oil.