Oil grass

Oil grass

(Hunan medical records)

[synonym] Yau Ma.

[source] it is the whole grass of the gramineous plant Euphorbia.

Euphorbia chinensis

Annual herb, 30-90 cm high. The roots are slender, bearded and clustered. The culms are tufted, erect or slightly inclined at the base, with obvious nodes and long internodes. The nodes on the ground are easy to regenerate roots. The leaf blade is flat or slightly folded, linear, 7-25 cm long, 0.3-0.6 cm wide, apex acuminate, entire, slightly rough, leaf sheath glabrous, ligule 0.1-0.2 cm long, membranous, mostly finely divided into cilia. Panicles 10-30 cm long, branches and main axis slightly rough, branches 6 cm long; spikelets green white to purplish, 0.2-0.4 cm long, with 3-7 flowers; glumes membranous, unequal, with 1 vein, spine rough; lemma with 3 veins, apex acute, glabrous or with short hairs below; anthers about 0.5 mm long. Caryopsis, elliptic, ca. 0. 1 cm long. The flowering and fruiting period is from August to November.

Wild in roadsides, fields, streams and wet places. Distribution in East China, central China, South China and Sichuan, Guizhou, Shaanxi and other places.

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

Light, flat and nontoxic.

[function and indications] it can break blood, attack accumulation and disperse phlegm.

[prescription selection] 1. To treat Baihuang: you cao Wu Qian, Decoction in water.

② Treat long-term heat does not retreat: Oil grass, roadside Jing each three money, water fried service.

Chinese PinYin : You Cao