Millettia cristata

Millettia cristata

(commonly used folk herbs in Guangxi)

[synonyms] knotweed, Amorphophallus purpurea (Lingnan Science Journal), myxophragmus (common economic plant in Guangzhou), caozihua (flora of Guangzhou), centipede, centipede, myxophragmus, Guigu (common folk herbal medicine in Guangxi).

[source] it is the whole grass or root of Poaceae.

[plant morphology] knotweed

Perennial herbs, 20-50 cm high. Stolons with stout branches; culms erect from prostrate base. Leaves mostly on stolons, lanceolate, 2-5 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, shorter on culms; sheath embracing. Panicle terminal, narrowly oblong, 5-10 cm long, usually lavender; branches filiform, whorled, arranged in racemes; spikelets 3, one of which sessile; basal plate lanceolate, covered with inverted hirsute; first glume lanceolate, apex placanticline pointed, with 2-3 or no veins; second glume lanceolate, apex pointed or with small awn thorn, 1 vein; lemma line of sterile floret Lemma of fruiting florets linear, apex acuminate, awned; palea small, linear, apex obtuse; stamens 3, style separated. The heading date is from June to October.

Growing on hillsides, meadows, or fields. It is distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and Taiwan.

[collection] all year round.

[nature and taste] Guangxi Folk commonly used herbs: "slightly bitter and sweet, cool, non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: clearing heat and promoting diuresis. It can cure cold, fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea, red and astringent urine, swelling and pain of golden wound.

① Flora of Guangzhou: "to treat snakebite, take the root and the same amount of wine. "

② "Guangxi Folk commonly used herbs": "Qingre Lishui, detumescence and pain. Treatment of Jinchuang swelling and pain, damp heat abdominal pain. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 Liang.

[prescription selection] 1. For the treatment of cold, fever, adverse urination and upper respiratory tract inflammation: three to five buckwheat (one or two fresh), fried in water. (Guangzhou Air Force Manual of common Chinese herbal medicine)

② Treatment of infantile wind heat: Chicken Valley Cui one or two, light bamboo leaf five money, gourd tea three money. Fried in water, three times a day. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of damp heat abdominal pain: Chicken Valley grass root one or two, Cyperus three money, peach leaf one or two, ghost painting five money. Fried soup.

④ Cure summer heat, urine red astringent: Chicken Valley grass root one or two, light bamboo leaf six money, slope sesame five money. Fried soup.

⑤ For the treatment of diarrhea and abdominal pain caused by Sha syndrome: two pairs of chicken grain and grass, four to six earthworms, mashed. First of all, chicken millet grass with appropriate amount of water, fried into a bowl, red earthworm, to be clarified when slag, a service. (3) common folk herbs in Guangxi