Dragon cutting grass

Dragon cutting grass

(Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in Northeast China)

[synonym] Senecio scandens.

[source] Senecio pinnatifida is a plant of Compositae with roots.

[plant morphology] Senecio pinnatifida, also known as Senecio Argonne.

Perennial herbs, 60-120 cm high. Most of the roots are filiform and curved. Stem erect, solitary or clustered, longitudinally striated, glabrous or slightly white hairy at apex, branched at upper part. The leaves are dark green on the top and pale on the bottom; the basal leaves are petiolate, ovate elliptic, with blunt or sharp serrations on the edge, falling off after anthesis; the middle leaves are sessile, elliptic, 8-10 cm long and 4-6 cm wide, pinnately lobed, with notched or toothed lobes on the edge, apex pointed; the upper leaves are elliptic lanceolate to linear, with irregular or undivided edges. The inflorescence is numerous, arranged into corymbose, the involucre is hemispherical, there are many linear bracts at the base; the bracts are long elliptic, the edge is membranous; the ligulate corolla is yellow, 7-10 mm long; the tubular flower is about 6 mm long, and the lobes are about 1 mm long. Achenes elliptic, smooth.

Born in hillside, grassland, forest edge, like Yin wetland. It is distributed in Northeast and South China.

[collection] harvest in summer.

Bitter, cold and poisonous.

① "Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Northeast China": "slightly bitter, cold. "

② "Plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment manual": "bitter, cold, small poison. "

[Guijing] "plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment manual": "heart entering classic". "

[function indications] clearing away heat and toxin. For dysentery, rash, acute conjunctivitis, pharyngitis, carbuncle, sore, eczema and dermatitis.

① "Northeast commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual": "clearing heat and detoxifying. It can cure snake, scorpion and bee bites. "

② "Xinjiang Chinese herbal medicine manual": "clearing away heat and toxin, Removing Putrefaction and promoting muscle, clearing liver and improving eyesight. Treatment of acute conjunctivitis, pharyngitis, sore, carbuncle, eczema, dermatitis, snakebite. "

③ "Plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment manual": "clearing heat and detoxification. It is used to treat red swelling and pain, rash, prurigo, abdominal pain and dysentery. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: tamping or frying and washing.

[selection] ① for carbuncle, redness, swelling and lymphatic tuberculosis: Senecio pinnatifida, mint and Ranunculus japonicus. (manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment)

② Treatment of acute conjunctivitis, pharyngitis: Senecio pinnatifida five money. Take it in water. (Xinjiang Chinese herbal medicine manual)

③ Treatment of red dysentery abdominal pain: Senecio pinnatifida with curcuma, decoction service. (manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment)

④ For snakebite, scorpion bite and bee sting: Chop two to three liang of the stem and root of Dracaena, and take them in water; in addition, chop two to four liang of the tender branches and leaves of Dracaena, and apply them to the affected area. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in Northeast China)