Puccinellia tenuiflora

Puccinellia tenuiflora

(selected works of the exhibition - skin diseases)

[source] it is the flower of thrush grass.

[plant morphology] thrush grass

Annual herb, 11-78 cm high. The culms are tufted, erect or ascending from the base, with a ring of glands under the nodes. Leaf blade linear, 5-20 cm long, 3-6 mm wide, coarser above, glabrous below; leaf sheath shorter than internodes, with longitudinal veins, glands on veins, villous at sheath mouth; ligule membranous, about 1 mm long. Panicle oblong or pyramidal, 7-20 cm long, branches stout, solitary, branchlets and spikelet stalks with yellow glands; spikelets 4-10 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, dark green, pale when old, blue purple; glume apex sharp, nearly equal or the first glume slightly short, veined; lemma lateral veins prominent, apex slightly obtuse, palea persistent, about 3 / 4 of lemma, The ridge is ciliate. Caryopsis globose, about 0.5 mm in diameter. The flowering and fruiting period is from July to October.

Born in hillside jungle, roadside, open area. It is distributed in Northeast and North China and extends to Guangdong and southwest China.

Thrush grass and small thrush grass are also used as stellate grass.

[function indications] for the treatment of impetigo (yellow water sores): stir fry the flowers of Puccinellia tenuiflora, keep them black, grind them fine, mix them into paste with sesame oil, and apply them to the affected area. Once a day for 3-5 times, the skin will dry and gradually return to normal.

Chinese PinYin : Xing Xing Cao