Chicken gizzard grass

Chicken gizzard grass

(Chongqing herbal medicine)

[synonym] Pleurotus ostreatus (Guizhou Folk herb) and Pleurotus ostreatus (Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals).

[source] it is the whole plant with roots of saxifrage.

[plant morphology] cornflower, also known as yellow plum flower.

They are perennial and about 20-50 cm tall. The rhizome is short and thick with numerous fibrous roots. Basal leaves tufted, reniform or ovate, thickened, 3-5 cm long and 3.5-7 cm wide, apex rounded or slightly convex, base cordate, entire; long petiole, ca. 20 cm long. There is a sessile leaf above the middle part of the stem, embracing the stem, the shape of which is the same as that of the basal leaf. Single flower terminal, about 1 cm in diameter; sepals 5, base more or less united, wide rectangular round, about 1 cm long, persistent; petals 5, pale yellow, crispy veins obvious, obovate oblong, 8 mm long, edge fimbriate; stamens 5, dorsal, alternate with perianth, intergrowth with staminodes, staminodes 5, 3-5-lobed; ovary ovate elliptic, 3-carpel connate, 1-locular, style Apex 3-lobed, slightly obtuse, rounded. Capsule oblate; seeds numerous, elliptic. The flowering period is July.

It grows in the wet and shady place near the ditch of the earth bank in the mountain area, and grows in the middle mountain area with an altitude of 1600-2600 meters. It is distributed in Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi.

[collection] from September to October.

Sweet and warm.

① "Guiyang folk herbs": "sweet, warm, non-toxic. "

② "The nature is warm. It's light and nontoxic. "

[function indications] it is used to treat cough, hematemesis, traumatic injury, leucorrhea and wet sores.

① Guiyang folk herbs: "tonifying the lung and relieving cough. Treatment of women with leucorrhea, injury. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "tonifying deficiency and Qi, promoting diuresis and dehumidification. Treatment of women with leucorrhea. Cough, hematemesis and damp heat sores. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang; or stewed chicken. External use: tamping.

[selection] 1. To treat cough and hematemesis: Herba gizzard and Herba Cervus. Stew for internal use. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

② Treatment of women with leucorrhea: white Pleurotus two liang, white Hibiscus spend five money. Stewed pork or fried in water. (Guiyang folk herbs)

③ Treatment of dampness and heat sores: chicken gizzard grass, rammed velvet for external use. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)