Sausagegrass

Sausagegrass

(Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] cramp grass, goose intestine vegetable, shenjinteng, goose ear intestine (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine), zhuangjindan, chicken egg vegetable (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole grass of Caryophyllaceae.

[plant morphology] Stellaria japonica

Perennial herbs, 50-80 cm high. The stem is much branched. The leaves are simple, opposite, membranous, ovate or broadly ovate, generally 2.5-5.5 cm long and 1-3 cm wide, apex acute, base subcordate; petiole 5-10 mm long, sparsely pilose, upper leaves often sessile or with very short petiole. Flower terminal branch end or single leaf axil; pedicel slender, hairy; sepals 5, base slightly connate, outside pubescent; petals 5, white, much longer than sepals, apex 2-lobed to base; stamens 10, slightly shorter than petals; ovary oblong, style 5, filiform. Capsule 5-lobed, 2-lobed at each apex. Seeds numerous, suborbicular, slightly flat, brown, with prominent protuberances.

In the field, roadside grass, mountain or wet place. It is widely distributed in the north and south of China.

Collect in summer and dry in autumn.

[nature and taste] 1. Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "sweet, light, flat. "

② Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "sour taste, flat nature. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and toxin, promoting blood circulation and detumescence. Treatment of pneumonia, dysentery, hypertension, irregular menstruation, carbuncle and hemorrhoids.

① Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing heat, relaxing tendons. Treatment of lobar pneumonia, hypertension, irregular menstruation. "

② Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing away heat and toxin, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Treatment of carbuncle, toothache, hemorrhoids swelling, dysentery. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-5 yuan. External use: tamping or boiling water fumigation.

[selection] ① treatment of high blood pressure: Wuqian. Cook fresh tofu. (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

② Cure dysentery: one or two fresh geese sausage dishes. Take it with water and sugar.

③ Carbuncle treatment: fresh goose intestines three Liang vegetables. Mash, add the right amount of sweet wine, fry in water; or mash with sweet distiller's grains, apply to the affected area.

④ Treatment of hemorrhoids swelling and pain: fresh goose intestines four Liang vegetables. Fry the concentrated juice in water, add a little salt, dissolve and fumigate.

⑤ Treatment of toothache: fresh goose intestines, mashed with a little salt, bite in the painful teeth. (2) Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine is listed below.)

Chinese PinYin : E Chang Cao