Pennisetum angustifolia

Pennisetum angustifolia

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

[synonyms] Shi Linzhu (Emei medicinal plant), Melon Seed Lotus (Zhejiang Tianmu medicinal plant records), Zhu zongqi (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant with roots of pteridiaceae.

[plant morphology] Dryopteris angustifolia

Perennial herbs, 13-35 cm high. Rhizome short, densely covered with coarse sieve pore like scales. The leaves are clustered; the petioles are 3-10 cm long, brown or dark brown, glossy; the first pinnate compound leaves are linear lanceolate, 10-25 cm long, 1.2-1.5 cm wide, slightly narrower at both ends; the pinnae are sparsely distributed, about 20 pairs, with very short petioles, obliquely ovate or fan-shaped elliptic, 5-6 mm long, blunt at the apex, finely toothed at the front edge, broadly cuneate at the base; the leaves are slightly herbaceous, dark green on the surface. The sporangia are linear, with 6-8 sporangia on each pinna, slightly obliquely intersecting with the midvein, and the cysts are homomorphic.

Born in the valley on the stone. It is distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Taiwan, Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, etc.

[pharmacological action] the leaves contain mucus. See "bristle grass" for its function.

[nature and taste] Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "mild in taste, flat in nature. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, seeping dampness, stopping bleeding and dispersing blood stasis. It can cure dysentery, gonorrhea, leucorrhea, irregular menstruation, sores, boils, poisoning and low back pain.

① "To cure red and white dysentery, Decoction with root and leaf wine. "

② "Emei medicine plant": "treat traumatic injury and low back pain, soak wine to take. "

③ "Guangxi medical plant directory": "external hemostasis, treatment of fire injury. "

④ Zhejiang Tianmu yam Zhi: "for the treatment of heat boils, mash and apply.". "

⑤ Chinese herbal medicine: tonifying kidney, regulating kidney. It is used to treat dysmenorrhea, leucorrhea, spermatorrhea, night sweats due to yin deficiency. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-4 yuan; or soak in wine. External use: tamping.