Scissor stock

Scissor stock

(save famine materia medica)

[synonym] pseudodandelion (Guangzhou Air Force "manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine"), dandelion (Guangxi medical plant directory).

[source] it is the whole plant of scissor stock of Compositae.

Scissor strand

Herbs perennial, glabrous, stoloniferous. The stem is erect, 10-30 cm high, slightly milky white. The basal leaves are arranged in rosette shape, thin, oblong lanceolate or obovate, or labyrinth elliptic, 5-15 cm long and 1.5-3 cm wide, entire or sparsely serrated or feathery at the lower part; petiolate; few leaves on the flower stem, only 1-2, entire; sessile. There are 1-5 heads arranged in corymbose shape; involucre is cylindrical, glabrous, outer bracts are very short, inner bracts are linear lanceolate, apex blunt, margin dry membranous; flower yellow, corolla ligulate, apex 5-toothed; stamen 5-toothed; anther yellow; ovary inferior, style slender, stigma 2-lobed, yellow, curly after anthesis. Achene oblong, flat, with short beak, reddish brown when mature; corolla white, soft. The flowering period is from April to May.

Born on the seashore, roadside and wasteland. It is distributed in East China and Central South China.

[nature and taste] 1. Saving famine materia medica: "leaf: bitter taste. "

② Guangzhou Air Force's Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine: "sweet and bitter, cold. "

[functions and indications] ① Guangzhou Air Force's Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine: "jieredu, xiaoyongzhong, Liangxue, diuretic. "

② "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "treat mastitis. "

[prescription selection] ① for gonorrhea, edema and acute conjunctivitis: three to five pieces of scissors, fried in water. (Guangzhou Air Force Manual of common Chinese herbal medicine)

② Treatment of breast carbuncle, poison: fresh scissors, smash external application. (Guangzhou Air Force Manual of common Chinese herbal medicine)