Jingucao

Chinese Name: Ajuga officinalis

[category] whole grass

[source] it is the whole plant of Ajuga pubescens.

[plant morphology] Ajuga villosa

Perennial herbs, 20-40 cm high. Rhizome transverse, shorter. Stem erect, square, purple, with white hairs, upper end sparsely branched. Leaves opposite; petiolate; lower leaves grate or scaly, small; middle leaves ovate to broadly ovate, base broadly cuneate, petiole longer, winged, margin coarsely serrate. It has terminal spikes with leafy bracts between spikes; calyx 5-lobed; corolla purple, lip shaped; lower lip of corolla larger than upper lip, upper lip very inconspicuous; stamens 4,2-strong. Nutlets oblong triangular, with reticulate wrinkles on the back. It blooms in early summer.

Most of them are found in wetland, grassland and forest. Distributed in Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Hubei, Sichuan, Zhejiang and other places.

[collection] it can be harvested all year round, and it is better to harvest at flowering stage. Fresh or sun dried.

Bitter, cold and nontoxic.

Functions and indications: clearing heat and cooling blood, reducing heat and swelling.

[prescription selection] 1. Treatment of hemoptysis due to lung heat: jingucao Wuqian, baibagen one or two, Bingtang one or two. Take it in water.

② Treatment of tonsillitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis: Jin Gu Cao five money to one or two. Take it in water. Or use four or five fresh plants of jingucao, add tofu, eat tofu and drink soup.

③ Treatment of falls, injuries, sprains: fresh tendons and bones grass plus a small amount of ginger, scallions, mashed topical.