Cockscomb grass

Cockscomb grass

(Ningxia Chinese herbal medicine manual)

[synonyms] Potentilla divaricata, Potentilla divaricata (Ningxia Chinese herbal medicine manual), hemorrhoids grass (Shaanxi herbal medicine), cucumber green grass (Shaanxi Gansu Ningqing Chinese herbal medicine selection).

[source] Potentilla furcifolia, a Rosaceae plant, changed from morbid to red.

[plant morphology] sauerkraut

Perennial short herb with lignified rhizome. The stems are mostly flat, sparse and erect, and branched from the base. The stem and petiole are villous. Its basal leaves are oblong or obovate oblong, with leaflets 11-17, 6-10 mm long and 3-6 mm wide. Its apex is 2-lobed or obtuse, entire, glabrous above and pubescent below. Its leaflets are sessile; its stem leaves are usually 3-7, stipules herbaceous. Cyme has 3-5 flowers, pedicel is pilose. Flowers yellow, 8-15 mm in diam., receptacle densely pilose. Achenes small, smooth, glabrous, styles lateral or subbasal.

It grows in the grass on the hillside. It is distributed in Liaoning, Hebei, Jilin, Inner Mongolia and Northwest China.

[collection] diseased branches and leaves were collected in summer and autumn and dried in the sun.

[nature and taste] Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine in Ningxia: "sweet, cool. "

[functions and indications] ① Ningxia Chinese herbal medicine manual: "cool blood and stop bleeding. Treatment of uterine bleeding. "

② "Shaanxi herbal medicine": "treating hemorrhoids. "

③ "Selected Chinese herbal medicines of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai": treating dysentery. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: tamping fresh leaves.