Agropyron cristatum

Agropyron cristatum

(medicinal plants in desert areas of China)

[source] it is the root of Leymus chinensis.

[plant morphology] Leymus chinensis, also known as Elymus paniculatum, Agropyron paniculatum, hamarton and Elymus sibiricus.

Perennial herbs, 40-90 cm high. Rhizome with decubitus; rhizomate. The culms are simple, forming dense clumps, erect, rigid, with 2-3 nodes, and the upper part is densely pilose. The leaves are flat, involute when dry, 8-30 cm long and 4-7 mm wide, with rough or pubescent upper and edge, smooth or slightly rough lower part; the leaf sheaths are mostly smooth, or ciliated at the upper edge when young, and the leaf sheaths at the base are withered yellow and remain fibrous; the ligule is gelatinous, truncated, 0.8-1.5 mm long. Inflorescence erect, 10-15 cm long, 8-10 mm wide, grayish green; rachis short hairy, robust, internode 3-7 mm long, spikelets 2-4 on each node of rachis, lemma lanceolate, hairy, glume linear, with 1 vein, glume 10-13 mm long, 4-7 florets. The flowering and fruiting period is from June to October.

It grows in moist and fertile sandy land, ditch side, ridge and low land between hills. Distributed in Northeast, Hebei, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and other places.

The fungus bearing ear of this plant (Agropyron cristatum) is also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] collect in autumn, wash and dry.

Sweet and cold.

[function indications] heat clearing, hemostasis and diuresis. Treat cold, epistaxis, asthma.

[prescription selection] 1. Prevention and treatment of cold: ice grass root, reed root, Gancao root, iris root, black wolfberry root (known as "wugen Decoction" in Yumen), five coins each, fried in water, twice a day.

② Treatment of epistaxis: ice grass root, mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum each one or two, decoction.

③ Treatment of asthma, phlegm with blood: ice grass root, sugar, water fried when tea to drink.

④ Treatment of nephritis: ice grass root with other drugs.

Chinese PinYin : Bing Cao Gen