Wolftail grass root

Wolftail grass root

(records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

[source] it is the root and rhizome of Pennisetum. For the plant morphology, please refer to "Pennisetum".

[collection] all year round.

[nature and taste] records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine: "sweet in taste, flat in nature, non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: clearing lung, relieving cough and detoxifying. Treatment of lung heat, cough, sore poison.

① "Classification of herbal medicine nature": "treat sore poison, cough, dredge meridians and disperse cold. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "clearing lung heat, relieving cough, dredging meridians and collaterals, treating sores and poisons. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 Liang.

[selection] 1. Treatment of heat cough: stewed pig heart and lung with wolftail root. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

② Treatment of cough and hemoptysis: wolftail grass root, Maogen, water pig hair seven, fried. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Lang Wei Cao Gen