Thunderweed 2

Thunderweed 2

(common folk herbs in Kunming)

[synonym] Ruyi grass (Diannan materia medica) and jiguanshen (Kunming folk herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root of Commelinaceae.

[plant morphology] blue eared grass

Perennial scattered herbs, up to 30 cm tall, somewhat white woolly. Fibrous root is much, stout, slightly fleshy. Leaves oblong lanceolate, 2.5-5 cm long, apex mucronate or obtuse, base decurrent. Cymes axillary or terminal, subsessile; bracts large, leaflike; bracteoles falcate, oblong, mucronate; sepals unequal, separated or united at base; petals slightly unequal; often united at base into a tube; stamens B, fully developed, filaments often hairy; ovary 3-locular. Capsule small, oblong, hairy, 3-lobed at maturity. The seeds have reticulation and 1-2 pits. The flowering period is from September to October.

Born on hillside, wasteland and under forest. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guangdong and other places.

[collection] all year round. Wash and dry.

[chemical constituents] the leaves contain cleisterone.

[nature and taste] "South Yunnan Materia Medica" is sweet and bitter in taste and cold in nature. "

Functions and indications: tonifying deficiency, removing dampness, relaxing muscles and activating collaterals. Treatment of deficiency heat does not retreat, nephritis edema, rheumatic joint pain, eczema.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "treat all deficiency syndrome, impotence without children, take it. "

② "Sweating and dehumidification, clearing Yin and heat" is a common folk herbal medicine in angming. "

③ "Yunnan Simao Chinese herbal medicine selection": "Shujinhuoluo, Qufengshi, diuretic, treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, waist and knee dampness, nephritis edema. "

[usage and dosage] take orally: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan, or soak in wine. External use: tamping.

[formula selection] ① rheumatic arthritis pain: take it with dew grass soaked in wine; or boil eel with dew grass to eat, and sweat after eating.

② Treatment of deficiency fever: dew grass, Pan Long Shen, fried in water; or dew grass cooked meat to eat.

③ Treatment of eczema, foot rotten: dew grass water decoction.

④ Treatment of knife wound, otitis media: dew grass external application. (selected the prescription of Kunming folk commonly used herbs)

Chinese PinYin : Pi Shui Cao