Eupatorium japonicum

Eupatorium japonicum

(medicinal plants in desert areas of China)

[source] it is the flower of Limonium flaviflorum, a plant of plumbagiaceae.

[plant morphology] Limonium flavum

Perennial herbs, 15-20 cm high. The stem is fine, branched and dense. Root leaves small, obovate, flowering often dead. Dense spikes forming panicles; rachis curved; calyx bright yellow, membranous; corolla yellow, in calyx tube.

It grows on dry hillside, Gobi, dry sandy land and dry grassland. Distributed in Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang and other places.

[collection] collection in summer and autumn.

Light and cool.

[function indications] analgesic, anti-inflammatory, blood. It can be taken orally to treat neuralgia, less menstruation, less milk and tinnitus; it can be used externally to treat all kinds of inflammation.

[prescription selection] 1. To treat a cold: the golden spoon leaf grass is five cents a dollar, fried in water.

② Treatment of toothache, alveolar abscess: golden spoon leaf grass, fried water gargle.

③ Treatment of sores, boils and carbuncle swelling: golden spoon leaf grass, wash with boiling water. (nature and taste are listed in medicinal plants in desert areas of China)

Chinese PinYin : Jin Shi Ye Cao