Festuca arundinacea

Festuca arundinacea

(rihuazi materia medica)

[synonym] Yinghua (materia medica of Tang Dynasty), Maokui flower and maozhenhua (flora of Jiangsu).

[source] it is the flower spike of gramineous plant Imperata. The plant morphology is detailed in article.

[collection] the flowers were harvested from April to May before blooming. Take off the spikes with stems and dry them in the sun.

[herbal medicine] the dry flower spike is cylindrical, 5-20 cm long, and the base and glume of the spikelet are densely covered with long and thin filamentous hairs, accounting for most of the flower spike. It is gray white, light and soft, like cotton wadding. The spikelets are yellowish brown, between slender filamentous hairs, not easy to fall off, the glumes are oblong lanceolate, membranous; the style of pistil is 2-lobed, the lobes are linear, with yellowish brown hairs on the lobes. Inflorescence stalk cylindrical, green. The air is weak and the taste is light. It is better to be dry, white, leafless and short stalk.

It is mainly produced in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. They are also found in other places.

[pharmacological action] the rabbits were orally given 0.5 g / kg water decoction every day for 3 days. From the 5th day of administration, the time of blood coagulation and bleeding were shorter than those in the control group. The effect lasted for several days. It can also reduce the vascular permeability (trypan blue penetration test).

[nature and taste] 1. Tang Ben Cao: "sweet, warm and non-toxic. "

② "Lu? Yan Ben Cao": it is warm and non-toxic. "

[function indications] hemostasis, pain. Treatment of hematemesis, bleeding, knife wounds.

① Tang materia medica: "it is mainly used for bleeding, vomiting blood and moxibustion sores. "

② "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "the blade and arrow sore, stop bleeding and pain. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: compress or plug the nose.

[prescription selection] treatment of epistaxis: white grass costs five yuan, pig nose one. The same stew about an hour, after dinner, take, take many times, is expected to cure. (Quanzhou materia medica)