Flat straw scirpi

[ ] Bi n G Pinyin name be n P. O C be O transactions
[ alias ] water sedge, Rhizoma sparganii weed
[ source ]
Medicine source: as the sedges flat stalk mariqueter tuber.
Latin animal mineral name: Scirpus planiculmis Fr . Schmidt
Harvest and storage: summer and autumn harvest, removed from stem leaf and rhizome, washed, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of flat stalk mariqueter, perennial, high 60-100cm. With creeping rhizomes or tubers. Culms slender, triangular prism, smooth, base dilated. Leaves basal or stem; leaf blade linear, flat, wide 2-5mm, base with long sheath. Foliaceous bracts longer than L-3, inflorescence, edge roughness. Cymes capitate, small mu L-6; spikelets ovate or oblong ovate, long 10-16mm, brown rust color, with many flowers; scales oblong, long 6-8mm, membranous, brown or dark brown, sparsely pilose, with 1 veins, apex lacerate notch, awned; the lower the 4-6, the barbed, long a nutlet 1 / 2-2 / 3; stamens 3; style long, stigmas 2. Nutlets obovoid or broadly obovate, slightly concave or flat, two sides and slightly convex, long 3-3.5mm. Flowering of 5-6 months, fr. 6-7.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in elevation of 1600m following river, ditch, lake and field edge near the office.
Resource distribution: distribution in the northeast, North China and Gansu, Qinghai, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Yunnan and other places.
[ ] bitter taste; flat
[ ] to the liver through the stomach; lung;
[ ] and functions by gas consumer product line. Primary amenorrhea; dysmenorrhea; postpartum stagnation abdominal pain; accumulation of thoracoabdominal masses; chest pain; dyspepsia
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 15-30g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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