Hair seven

Hair seven

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

Black silk grass.

[source] it is the filaments of Asian tree hair of usnaceae.

[plant morphology] Asian tree hair

Parasitic lichen plants. All are filiform, yellowish brown or light brown black, up to 20 cm long, the base of the dead tree, hanging downward. There are many lateral branches, thin and short, with discoid apparatus on the branch, and the other end is close to other lateral branches. The pollen buds and needle buds were absent.

It is parasitic on dead trees such as alpine pine. It is distributed in Shaanxi, Sichuan and other places.

[collection] it can be collected all year round, and the impurities can be removed and dried in the sun.

[flavor] light, flat.

Functions and indications: Nourishing Yin and kidney, promoting diuresis and detumescence, and improving eyesight. Treatment of kidney deficiency, weakness, headache, dizziness, palpitation, spermatorrhea, night sweat, gonorrhea, edema, yellow water sores, eye diseases.

[prescription selection] ① for dizziness: Radix Notopterygii, Radix Angelicae sinensis, Rhizoma Notopterygii, Rhizoma ligustici, Radix Polygoni Multiflori, Radix Polygoni Multiflori, Decoction in water.

② Treatment of gonorrhea: hair 75 money, August melon four money, zhulingcao three money, fried in water, yellow rice wine as a guide.

③ Treatment of yellow water sores: hair seven, realgar, alum each appropriate amount, grind into fine powder, spread the affected area.