Green medicine

Green medicine

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

[synonym] shuibaiju.

[source] it is the whole herb of Qingyao, a Compositae plant.

Green herb

Perennial herbs. Stem erect, 30-50 cm high, upper part densely hairy. The basal leaves are tufted with long stalks, the leaves are lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, with sparse serrations on the edge, white hairs scattered on both sides, and dense veins; the stem leaves are alternate, the upper leaves are dense, and the leaves are linear lanceolate, smaller than the basal leaves, and hairy on both sides. There are a few capitate flowers with long stalks, attached to the top of stems and branches, arranged in corymbose shape; bracts are 2-row, imbricate, hairy; ligulate flowers are white, then gradually reddish purple; tubular flowers are yellow, and the crown hairs are gray white.

Born in low-lying wetlands and waterside. It is distributed in Guizhou and other places.

[collection] harvest in autumn.

It's hard work and cool.

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and expelling wind.

[prescription selection] 1. To treat cold and fever: three money for green medicine and five money for fish and loach string. Simmer water clothes.

② Cure eye red: green medicine three to five money. Simmer water clothes.

③ Cure weak: green medicine five money. Simmer water clothes.

Chinese PinYin : Qing Yao