Chicken belly grass

Chicken belly grass

(Zhejiang folk herbs)

[synonym] chicken grass, fish belly grass.

[source] it is the whole plant of Caryophyllaceae.

[plant morphology] Stellaria japonica

Herbs biennial, 10-28 cm high. The stem is delicate and soft, the lower part is prostrate, the node has adventitious roots, the upper part is oblique, forked branches, except for one row of fine hairs on one side, the rest are smooth and glabrous, light green. The leaves are opposite, narrowly ovate to broadly ovate. The leaves in the lower part of the stem have winglike petioles, while the upper leaves have no petioles. Flowers white, solitary in axils of leaves, or in terminal scattered cymes. Fruit ovate or oblong. The flowering period is April. The fruit period is from May to June.

Born in sunny hillside roadside, piedmont, ridge edge and garden grass. Distributed in Zhejiang and other places.

[collection] the whole grass was collected in spring and autumn and used fresh or dried in the sun.

[function indications] antibacterial and anti-inflammatory. Treat toothache, furuncle, mastitis.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: Tamp the affected area.

[selection] treatment of mastitis: Chicken belly grass one or two, dandelion one or two. Take it in water.