Tian Cong

Tian Cong

(collection of herbs in Lingnan)

Another name: Chinese onion.

[source] it is the whole plant of Alliaceae.

[plant morphology] Allium fistulosum

Erect herbs. The root is fibrous. Stem single stem, few branches, 30-60 cm high, more or less woolly, especially near inflorescence. Leaves imbedded in the base of stem, sword shaped, more than 30 cm long, the upper part gradually reduced into lanceolate, sheathed bracts, but all longer than perianth. Spikes terminal, 30-60 cm long, woolly; flowers sessile, solitary, rarely 2 gathered in a bud; perianth yellow, divided to the base of 2 petal like lobes, about 1.2 cm long and wide, hairy; stamen L, inserted at the base of dorsal axis of the branch lobes, filaments flat, anthers 2-locular, locular convoluted; staminodes 2, small, petaloid; ovary superior, 1-locular, style Single birth. Capsule oblong, about 1.2 cm long, perianth persistent, divided into three petals. The seeds are numerous. The flowering period is summer and autumn.

He was born in a paddy field. Distributed in Taiwan, Guangdong and other places.

[function indications] raw herbal medicine preparation: "wash rotten feet, apply tinea.". Stir fry with iron tin powder, cure?. "