Sedge root

Sedge root

(records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

[source] it is the tender rhizome of a gramineous plant.

[plant morphology] pseudoimperata, also known as Eulaliopsis binata and Leymus chinensis.

Perennial herbs, 40-70 cm high. The fibrous roots are thick. One side of culm with longitudinal groove, with 3-4 nodes. The leaf sheath is shorter than the internode except the lower part, the sheath mouth only has fine cilia, and the leaf sheath out of the root is densely covered with white villi; the leaf tongue is in a circle of short cilia; the leaf blade is narrow linear, 10-30 cm long and 1-3 mm wide, folded into thin needles, and the terminal leaf blade even degenerates into a cone, glabrous. Raceme densely covered with yellowish brown villi, 2-4 fingers arranged, rachis and petiole flattened, both sides with long cilia or glabrous; spikelet 4.5-6 mm long, basal plate with milky yellow filamentous pubescence; the first dorsal ventral flat, with clusters of milky yellow white filamentous pubescence below the middle; the second glume navicular, longer than the first glume, midrib extended, with short awn up to 3 mm, growing in clusters below the middle The first flower is male or neutral, lemma is hyaline and membranous, palea is slightly shorter or degenerate than lemma; the second flower is bisexual, lemma is oblong, apex with a slightly curved awn, palea apex obtuse; stamens 3; stigmas 2, brush like, black purple. It is heading in May.

Born on the hillside. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Taiwan.

[collection] harvest in spring and summer and dry in the sun.

[function and indications] Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine records: "promoting qi and breaking blood, treating women's tuberculosis, menstrual arrest and hot flashes. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 5-8 yuan.

[selected formula] Jingting: two taels of sedge root, one jin of Hongzi root, four taels of Hongteng root, one or two taels of xiaoxueteng root, two taels of Qiancao root, four taels of Baijie lotus root. Stewed pork suit. (Chongqing herbal medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Suo Cao Gen