Taki grass

Taki grass

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

[synonyms] Ye Mo Guang (Guizhou herbal medicine), triangle leaf (Guizhou medicinal plant catalogue), dugriba (Miao name).

[source] it is the whole plant of takifuga.

[plant morphology] takifuga

Perennial herbs, 40-70 cm high. Stem green, densely pubescent, leaves opposite, ovate, 5-9 cm long, 4-8 cm wide, apex acuminate, base shallowly cordate, margin sparsely serrate, both sides pubescent; petiole 4-8 cm long, pubescent. Raceme terminal, inflorescence axis densely pubescent; bracts small; flowers bisexual, white; calyx tube ovate, lobes 2; petals 2, broadly obovate, shorter than calyx lobes, apically concave; stamens 2; ovary inferior, 2-locular. Fruit nutlike, obovate globose, covered with light brown hooked hairs; stipe hairy, slightly shorter than fruit or nearly equal.

It grows on the hillside, roadside and under the forest. It is distributed in Northeast, North China, East China, southwest and Shaanxi.

It's pungent, cool and poisonous.

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and toxin, promoting muscle growth.

[selection] 1. For scabies, purulent Pao: dry and grind the powder at night, mix with sulfur and realgar powder, stir it with vegetable oil or put it on the ulcers.

② Treatment of knife wound: apply smooth and velvet to the wound at night. (the following is Guizhou herbal medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Niu Long Cao