Setaria atrazine

Setaria atrazine

(selected new therapies and Chinese herbal medicine, Xiamen)

Another name is Setaria.

[source] it is the whole grass or root of the gramineous plant arundinacea.

[plant morphology] Setaria atrazine

Annual herb, 40-80 cm high. Culms erect or base geniculate. Leaf blade linear, 5-20 cm long, 2-8 mm wide, apex acuminate, base narrowed, involute when dry, both sides slightly sparse or nearly bald, edge slightly rough, leaf sheath bald, sheath mouth with long hair. Inflorescence 2-3-3-mm long; spikelets ovate, ca. 1-3-3-3-mm long; spikelets ovate or slightly 3-3-3-3-cm-long; spikelets 1-3-3-3-3-3-cm-long; spikelets ovate , 5-veined: lemma of fruiting floret flat convex, elliptic, as long as lemma of sterile floret, apex short pointed, surface wrinkled, margin narrowly involute, enclosing palea; palea narrower than grain, stamens absent. Summer and autumn heading.

It is widely distributed in tropical areas.

Light and cool.

[function indications] clearing away heat and toxin.

[formula selection] 1. To treat Yanghuang: Wuqian, Baiying, and brown sugar. Take it in water, one dose a day.

② Combination of treatment membrane inflammation: fresh grass Setaria one or two: decoction.

③ Carbuncle treatment: mash the fresh grass and Setaria, and apply it to the affected area.