Verbena officinalis

Verbena officinalis

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] mistangcao (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine), shigaobei (Zhejiang Chinese herbal medicine resource list).

[source] it is the whole grass or root of Lespedeza multiflora.

Lespedeza multiflora

Small shrubs. Stem often in the near base part of the branch, slender and weak branches, apex drooping, with stripes. Leaflets small and thin, obovate or narrowly obovate, 6-25 mm long and 3-16 mm wide, apex truncate, emarginate, spiny, hairy at birth, especially densely covered with white villi below. Raceme axillary, petiole short, pedicel thick; bracteoles ovate, acute sharp; calyx 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate; corolla butterfly, pink to purple, flag obovate, shorter than keel; stamens 10, 2-body; pistil 1, style slender. Pods elliptic, 4 mm long, hairy. The flowering period is September.

Born in the hillside jungle. Distributed in northeast provinces, South to the Yangtze River Basin and southwest.

[collection] from June to October.

[nature and taste] Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "root: astringent in taste, cool in nature. "

[functions and indications] 1. List of traditional Chinese medicine resources in Zhejiang Province: "treating malaria". "

② Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "root: eliminating accumulation, dispersing blood stasis. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-3 yuan.

[prescription] to cure malnutrition: rhizome of Verbena officinalis, wild cotton and three fried eggs. After the eggs are cooked, break the shell and boil until the eggs turn black. Eat eggs and soup, one dose a day. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)