Chicken kidney grass

Chicken kidney grass

(commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet)

[synonym] jishenzi, yaozicao, Shuangren, shenjingcao (Jingzhou Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of Cymbidium.

[plant morphology] hystrix cristatus

Perennial herbs, 25-50 cm high. Tuber long elliptic, fleshy, white, often 2, different in size, with sparse fibrous roots. Stem erect. Single leaf alternate, 5-7 pieces, lanceolate or ovate lanceolate, apex acuminate, base with sheath embracing stem, dark green above, green below. Spikes terminal. Flowers small and dense, outside 3 pale yellow green, inside 3 white.

He was born on the sunny hillside in the forest area. It is distributed in Hubei, Tibet and other places.

[collection] harvest from August to September,

Sweet and warm.

① "Tibetan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "sweet, light, flat. "

② Jingzhou Chinese herbal medicine: "Gan. Wen. "

[functions and indications] ① common Tibetan herbal medicine: "tonifying kidney and strengthening yang. For impotence and hernia. "

② Jingzhou Chinese herbal medicine: "treating infantile enuresis."..

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-4 yuan.

Chinese PinYin : Ji Shen Cao