Schizonepeta

Schizonepeta

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

Yangaoliang.

[source] it is the whole grass of the gramineous plant exon grass.

[plant morphology] exospermum

Perennial herbs, 1-1.5 m high. Culms solitary or few tufted, erect, with 4-5 nodes. Leaf blade long lanceolate, 10-40 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, apex acuminate, base narrow, often turned so that the top downward gray green, the bottom upward dark green; leaf sheath shorter than internodes, smooth hairless; ligule hard, up to 2.5 cm. Panicle 40 cm long, branches in the lower part of many whorls, as long as 10 cm; spikelets with 1 flower, lateral on the branches: glumes membranous, the first and second glumes have 3 veins; palea slightly shorter than lemma. Caryopsis obovate, dark brown, surface rugose, exposed at maturity from lemma. The flowering period is from May to July.

Under the forest on the hillside. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

[flavor] sweet, slightly astringent, flat.

Functions and indications: tonifying deficiency and strengthening spleen, harmonizing blood and regulating menstruation.

[selection of prescriptions] 1. Deficiency after treatment: one or two in yangaoliang. Simmer water or stew meat to eat.

② Treatment of amenorrhea: rock sorghum one or two, red moon, cock tail hair each two money; monkey bone five money. Wine making clothes.