Rosette thistle

Rosette thistle

(Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] edible thistle (Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of Ageratum roseatum.

[plant morphology] ageratum roseatum

Perennial herbs. Stemless or shortly stemmed. Root leaves oblong oblanceolate, rosette shaped, with pinnate notch, lobes obtuse, margin with yellow long spines and short spines. The inflorescences are dense, large, 3-4 cm in diameter, all tubular, purple, with lower tube 1 / 3-1 / 2 longer than upper tube; involucral bracts linear or lanceolate, apex spiny. Achenes oblong, with pinnate trichomes slightly as long as corolla.

It grows in the grassland or lake wetland, marshy meadow. It is distributed in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Northeast China.

[collection] in summer and autumn, the flowers are in full bloom or bear fruit.

[chemical constituents] it contains flavonoids.

Sweet and cool.

Functions and indications: disperse blood stasis and detumescence, discharge sepsis, and stop bleeding. Treatment of lung abscess, ulcers, carbuncle poison, skin diseases, liver heat, all kinds of bleeding.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-3 yuan; or powder.

[selection] treatment of lung abscess: two coins of lianzuji, three thread of Polygala, one coin of Platycodon grandiflorum. We will study Burmese noodles together. Three times a day, one money each time, warm water service. (the following is the Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Lian Zuo Ji