Tangerine grass

Tangerine grass

(Wenling County drug resources list)

[source] it is the whole plant of Euphorbiaceae.

[plant morphology] tangerine grass

Annual herb, 15-60 cm high, glabrous and smooth. Stem erect, branched, slender. Leaves alternate, sometimes inclined to one side, linear or lanceolate, 8-20 mm long, 2-5 mm wide, apex acute, base rounded or broadly cuneate, entire; shortly stipitate: 2 stipules. Flowers small, unisexual, usually monoecious, clustered or solitary in leaf axils; apetalous; male sepals 4, disk glands 4, separate, alternate with sepals, without degenerated ovary; female sepals 6, disk glands 6, ovary 6-locular, stigma 6. Capsule petiolate, pendulous, orbicular, ca. 2 mm in diam., brown, surface smooth. Seeds triangular, grayish brown, tuberculate. The flowering period is summer and autumn. The fruit ripens from September to October.

Born on hillside or roadside. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn,

[nature and taste] 1. Su Yi's Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine: "slightly bitter, cold. "

② "Wenling County drug resources list": "light, cool. "

[functions and indications] 1. According to the manual of Chinese herbal medicine of Su Yi, "clearing heat, improving eyesight, strengthening stomach, stopping dysentery, seeping dampness, diuresis. Treatment of snakebite, infantile malnutrition. And treat cold, conjunctivitis, summer fever, diarrhea, dysentery, night blindness, urinary tract infection, urinary calculi, nephritis and edema. "

② "Wenling County drug resources list": "Qinggan Mingmu, xiaochanzhi dysentery. Along with hepatitis, jaundice, summer fever, diarrhea, red and white dysentery, edema. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang (fresh 1-2 Liang). External use: tamping.

[selected formula] for dysentery and enteritis: one or two to one or two halves of tangerine grass. Take it in water. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

Chinese PinYin : Mi Gan Cao