Chicken feather dog

Chicken feather dog

(Ningxia Chinese herbal medicine manual)

It's cotton.

[source] it is the white villous mass of the basal petiole and stem base of the Compositae plant.

[plant morphology] Mongolian Long Ling grass

Perennial herbs, 15-30 cm high. The stem is erect, the upper part is much branched, and the whole plant is covered with white villi; there are white villous masses at the base of stem and basal petiole, which are like cotton masses. The basal leaves are tufted, the leaves are linear lanceolate, the edges are irregular pinnate, the lobes are extremely curly; the stem leaves are alternate; there are long stalks. Inflorescence terminal, involucral bracts many row, tube flower purple red. Achenes oblong, with white hairs.

It is distributed in Inner Mongolia, Ningxia and other places.

[collection] cotton like lumps at the base of stems were collected in spring and autumn to remove sand and dry in the sun.

[flavor] light, flat.

[function indications] hemostasis. Treatment of traumatic bleeding, epistaxis.

[selection] ① treatment of traumatic bleeding: appropriate amount of chicken feather and dog, external application.

② Treatment of epistaxis: chicken feather dog, into the nostril.