Xiaomaoxiang

Xiaomaoxiang

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] Edelweiss, Pulsatilla.

[source] it is the flower of Artemisia argyi.

Plant morphology of Artemisia argyi

Perennial herbs, 30-50 cm high. Stems tufted, slender, erect, white woolly. Leaves alternate, lanceolate to narrowly oblong, 4-6 cm long, 6-12 mm wide, apex acute, entire, base gradually narrowed, green above, white woolly below, sessile; leaves wither at the lower part of stem when flowering. Terminal head, integrated into dense cymes, surrounded by a ring of obovate leaves densely covered with white woolly hairs; involucre campanulate, 3-row, covered with white woolly hairs; marginal flowers female, filiform; disk flowers male, tubular, 5-lobed, yellowish. Achene small, cylindrical, 1-row corolla. It blooms in autumn.

It grows in the grass on the hillside. Distributed in Shaanxi, Hubei, Guizhou and other places.

[collection] harvest in autumn and dry.

[flavor] light, slightly sweet, flat.

[function indications] cough. Treat cough.

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan.