Pennisetum

Pennisetum

(Fujian folk herbal medicine)

[synonyms] Pennisetum (Lingnan Science Journal), Eupatorium (flora of Guangzhou), Bambusa wallichiana, Ranunculus ternatus, oxtail grass (Fujian folk herbal medicine), hypericum arundinaceum (Gramineae), Pennisetum, Cynomorium, Eupatorium, Eupatorium, Eupatorium (Fujian native herb), Maomao grass (Guangdong traditional Chinese Medicine II), Eupatorium and Phyllum (Fujian central herbal medicine) Herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole grass of canary.

[plant morphology] Hypericum

Perennial, clustered herbs, 10-80 cm high. Culms erect, slender. Leaf blade flat, linear lanceolate, 2-4 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, apex acuminate, both sides and margin hairy; leaf sheath bald, sheath mouth hairy. Spikes are solitary at the top of main culms and branches, soft and slightly curved, 1.5-3 cm long; rachis slender, internodes very short, ciliated, and the top of nodes thick and truncated; spikelets are in pairs, one petiolate, one sessile, less than 2 mm long; hairs of basal plate are about as long as spikelets or more; apex of first glume truncated or rounded, ciliated; second glume slightly longer than first glume, with thick ridge Lemma of sterile florets present or absent, linear, smooth, palea absent; lemma of fruiting florets with cracks in the middle, lobes ciliated, awned, awn similar to second glume, but slightly longer; stamen 1, anthers some small, some as long as 1 mm; style 2, stigma brush like, about 1 mm long Rice. The flowering and fruiting period is from May to September.

It is found in rivers, gaps in walls, hillsides and wet fields. It is distributed in Zhejiang, Taiwan, Fujian, Guangdong, Yunnan, Sichuan, Hunan, Jiangxi, etc.

[collection] harvested in autumn, dried or fresh.

[chemical constituents] it contains flavonoid glycosides, phenols, amino acids, organic acids and sugars.

Sweet and cool.

① Fujian folk herbal medicine: "sweet, flat, non-toxic. "

② "Minnan folk herbal medicine": "sweet, cold. "

③ "Sweet, light, cool" in the Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou army. "

[Guijing] Mindong materia medica: "entering the spleen, kidney and bladder. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and promoting diuresis. Treatment of fever, thirst, diarrhea, jaundice, hepatitis, diabetes, erosion, urine, urine adverse.

① Fujian herbal medicine: close the urine and stop the thirst. "

② "Guangdong traditional Chinese medicine" II: "clearing heat, promoting diuresis, relieving gonorrhea, cooling blood. Indications: cloudy, liver heat, malnutrition, short urine in children. "

③ "Mindong Materia Medica": "it is used to treat fever, thirst, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, adverse urination and red eyes. "

④ "Commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual" of Guangzhou Army: "treat urinary tract infection, nephritis, edema, cold, high fever, jaundice hepatitis, diabetes. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan (1-2 Liang fresh).

[selected formula] ① for fever, thirst, diarrhea, heat drenching and blood drenching: fresh canary grass 2-42 Liang. Take the decoction orally. (Mindong materia medica)

② Treating children's fever: one or two pieces of Hypericum. Add boiling water to stew. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of diabetes: two taels of Hypericum, twelve ginkgo. Drink water and fry. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of leucorrhea: 1 or 2 Hypericum, 14 Ginkgo biloba. Take it with water. (Mindong materia medica)

⑤ The treatment of dream elixir, white: fresh Jinsi grass one to two, fresh sea Jinsha grass seven money. Take it in water. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

⑥ Treatment of children with short urine: Hypericum with rush, plantain, Salicornia, fried. (Guangdong traditional Chinese Medicine II)

Chinese PinYin : Bi Zai Cao