Leymus chinensis

Leymus chinensis

(Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine, Jinjiang, Fujian)

[synonyms] Ranunculus chinensis and Hedyotis diffusa (Guizhou herbal medicine), Ophiopogon diffusa (Guizhou herbal medicine catalogue), Tian Suxiang and Tian banana (Chinese herbal medicine manual, Jinjiang, Fujian).

[source] it is the whole plant of Scrophulariaceae.

[plant morphology] narrow leaf mother grass, also known as moshang pepper.

Annual herb, 7-20 cm high, glabrous. The stem is much branched, the base is creeping, the node is easy to take root after soil, and the branches are erect or oblique. Leaves opposite; linear or linear lanceolate, 1-3 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, margin with inconspicuous obtuse teeth, apex mucronate, base narrow; sessile. The flowers are solitary in leaf axils, in short racemes, with stalks as long as the leaves; calyx 5-lobed, lobes linear, 4-5 mm long, reflexed in fruit; corolla purplish red, about 1 cm long, corolla tube cylindrical, apex 2-lipped, upper lip erect, 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed; stamens 4-lobed. Capsule linear long elliptic, 2-3 times longer than calyx, style usually does not fall off. The flowering period is from August to October.

In wet areas and rice fields. It is distributed in East and South China.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

[nature and taste] Guizhou herbal medicine: "the nature is flat, the taste is hard. "

Functions and indications: eliminate heat and dampness, harmonize stomach and remove blood stasis. Treatment of jaundice, dysentery, acute gastroenteritis, acute laryngitis, tonsillitis, traumatic injury.

① Guizhou herbal medicine: "clearing away heat and dampness, removing blood stasis and generating new life.". "

② The Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine in Jinjiang, Fujian Province: "clearing away heat and toxin, removing blood stasis and cooling blood. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang; or grinding powder. External use: tamping.

[selection] 1. Treatment of jaundice: one or two for each of Ranunculus chinensis and Pyrola officinalis. Simmer water clothes.

② Cure dysentery: sheep horn peach one or two, iron lamp bowl five money.

③ Treatment of traumatic injury: yangjiaotaogen three to five money, wine service; or research at the end of one to three money, with wine swallow.

④ Treatment of fracture: external application of sheep horn pillow. (1) Guizhou herbal medicine

⑤ Treatment of acute gastroenteritis: fresh sheep horn grass, fresh ear grass each one or two. Take it in water. (Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine, Jinjiang, Fujian)

⑥ Treatment of acute laryngitis, tonsillitis: fresh sheep horn grass, Centella asiatica each one or two. Decoction, drink with rock sugar. (Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine, Jinjiang, Fujian)