Mongolian radish

Mongolian radish

(Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine)

[source] it is the flower of Dipsacus mongolica.

[plant morphology] Mongolian radish

Perennial herbs, 20-60 cm high, stem erect, smooth or short hairy. The root leaves are ovate elliptic, oblong, elliptic lanceolate or ovate lanceolate, with long stalks, entire or notched sharp teeth, sometimes with large head feathering, and densely short hairs below; the stem leaves are deeply pinnate, and the lobes are linear. Inflorescence solitary at the top of branch, about 3 cm in diameter, blue; involucre linear; outer flower lip 2-lobed, lower lip lobes longer, central flower tube 5-lobed. Achenes, linear.

Born on hillside and grassland. It is distributed in Inner Mongolia and Northeast China.

[collection] in summer, it is dry in the shade.

[flavor] sweet, slightly bitter, cool.

Functions and indications: clearing heat and purging fire. Treatment of liver fire, headache, fever, lung heat, cough, jaundice.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: Yanmo Weisan, 0.5-1 yuan.

[prescription selection] 1. Treatment of lung heat, cough and asthma: five yuan for radish, four yuan for licorice, three yuan for caoheche, two yuan for Polygala tenuifolia and one yuan for LianZuo thistle. We studied the details together. Three times a day, five to one cent each time, take it with boiling water.

② Treatment of liver and gallbladder damp heat, eyes red, jaundice: Safflower five money, gypsum three money, Mongolia mountain radish, Mutong, dice, Terminalia chebula each two money, ephedra three money. We studied the details together. Three times a day, five to one cent each time, with boiled water.

Chinese PinYin : Meng Gu Shan Luo Bo