Setaria atrazine
(selected new therapies and Chinese herbal medicine, Xiamen)
Another name is Setaria.
[source] it is the whole grass or root of the gramineous plant arundinacea.
[plant morphology] Setaria atrazine
Annual herb, 40-80 cm high. Culms erect or base geniculate. Leaf blade linear, 5-20 cm long, 2-8 mm wide, apex acuminate, base narrowed, involute when dry, both sides slightly sparse or nearly bald, edge slightly rough, leaf sheath bald, sheath mouth with long hair. Inflorescence 2-3-3-mm long; spikelets ovate, ca. 1-3-3-3-mm long; spikelets ovate or slightly 3-3-3-3-cm-long; spikelets 1-3-3-3-3-3-cm-long; spikelets ovate , 5-veined: lemma of fruiting floret flat convex, elliptic, as long as lemma of sterile floret, apex short pointed, surface wrinkled, margin narrowly involute, enclosing palea; palea narrower than grain, stamens absent. Summer and autumn heading.
It is widely distributed in tropical areas.
Light and cool.
[function indications] clearing away heat and toxin.
[formula selection] 1. To treat Yanghuang: Wuqian, Baiying, and brown sugar. Take it in water, one dose a day.
② Combination of treatment membrane inflammation: fresh grass Setaria one or two: decoction.
③ Carbuncle treatment: mash the fresh grass and Setaria, and apply it to the affected area.
Chinese PinYin : You Gou Wei Cao
Setaria atrazine