Geotrichum

Geotrichum

(bielu)

[synonyms] Kan gen, Tu Jin (another record), Huang Mao (compendium), Mao Zhen Zi Cao (Guizhou herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root or whole grass of the gramineous plant Huangmao.

[plant morphology] Huangmao, also known as Huangkan (compendium).

Perennial herb with tough fibrous roots. Culms erect, tufted, 40-90 cm high, glabrous and smooth. Leaf sheaths flattened and ridged, smooth, glabrous or glabrous; ligule hard, membranous, ca. 1 mm long, truncated, ciliate; leaf blade linear, 15 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, both sides rough or upper base sparsely pilose. Raceme solitary, 3-6 cm long (except awn), with 3-10 homomorphic pairs in the lower part and 12 heterosexual pairs in the upper part; pregnant spikelet linear, 6-8 mm long, base plate sharp, with brown and Feng colored beard; the first glume leathery, covered with short bristles, back rounded, apex obtuse, margin convoluted with homogeneous second glume; the second glume is equal and very narrow than the first glume, with 2 veins, between veins covered with short bristles, membranous The second lemma is membranous, very narrow, extending into awn; awn 2 is geniculate, 6-10 cm long, awn column twisted and covered with short bristles; sterile spikelets slanted and slightly twisted, covered with fertile spikelets, green or purplish, glabrous or scabrous. The flowering and fruiting period is from July to November.

It grows on hillside grassland. It is distributed in South China, Southwest China, central China, Zhejiang and Shaanxi.

[collection] all year round.

[chemical composition] hay (collected at flowering stage) contains 11.2% moisture, 4.9% ash, 3.9% protein, 1.5% lipids, 36.0% crude fiber and 42.5% carbohydrates. The polysaccharides were mainly hemicellulose. The low molecular sugar is sucrose. Glucose, fructose, galactitol, inositol and raffinose.

Sweet and cold.

① Bielu: "it tastes sweet, flat and nontoxic. "

② "Ben Cao Qiu yuan": "Gan, Han. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, relieving thirst, dispelling wind and removing dampness. Treat fever, eliminate drowning, cough, vomiting and diarrhea, joint pain.

① Bielu: "it can tonify Qi, quench thirst, remove heat in abdomen and umbilicus, and strengthen tendons."

② "Compendium":. "Root, seedling and flower are the same as those of Imperata. "

③ "Preparation of raw herbal medicine nature": "treat heat cough, stop vomiting and diarrhea, regulate small intestine Qi. "

④ "Seeking the source of Materia Medica": "stop water diarrhea, manage heart qi heat pain, small intestine Qi pain. "

⑤ "Li Di Da Nei Shang" in Lingnan caiyao Lu. "

⑥ Guizhou herbal medicine: "expelling wind and removing dampness, relieving cold and cough."

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang; mash juice or soak and sprinkle. External use: tamping.

[prescription selection] 1. To treat wind cold and cough: take one or two roots of Cynanchum villosum in boiling water.

② Treat rheumatism joint ache: hair needle son grass root one or two, big blood vine, small blood vine, Guanyin firewood each five money, soak wine service.

③ Treatment of gunshot wounds (bullet return): equal amount of hair needle grass and horse stump, smash and apply to the injured area. (1) Guizhou herbal medicine

Chinese PinYin : Di Jin