Ding Gui grass

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[ ] Pinyin name Dī n Gu C ì Jiǎ o Gē n
[ ] Root of Twinleaf Zzornia English name
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Medicine medium source: for leguminous plants, Guicao entire grass.
Latin botanical mineral name: Zornia gibbosa Spanoghe animal [Zornia diphylla ( L. ) pers
Harvest and storage: summer, fall the excavation, removal of stems and leaves, dirt, clean, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Ding Guicao, perennial herb, high 15-60cm. Stem slender, branching, loosely or erect, glabrous. Flocculus 2, born of vane top, leaf blade lanceolate, long 2-3.5cm, wide 0.5-1cm, apex acute, base rounded, thick papery, glabrous on both sides; stipules narrowly lanceolate, base the Ministry has about 3mm long distance. Racemes axillary, long 2-6cm; flowers sessile; bracts 2, peltate with students, leathery, ovate, base extends into the distance, have apparent veins, margin white ciliate; calyx campanulate, two lip, pubescent; corolla yellow, very prominent, upper petal orbicular, obovate or wing flap long circular, keel petals incurved, mucronate, stamens 10, anthers one, type two; ovary superior, sessile, linear style. Pod cracking, by2-6 pod sections, pod section circular, with veinlets conspicuous and side. Florescence 6-8 month.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in less arid mountain land.
Resource distribution: distribution Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangxi, Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan.
[ ] taste sweet and cool;
[ ] to the spleen.
[ ] functions of clearing away heat and toxic material. Primary tumors of beriberi edema;;; Luo Li; snakebite
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,15-30g. External application: suitable, calcining of grind end caesar.
[ ] of party1, governance beriberi edema pain: fresh Ding decane grassroots Yiliangban, knuckle Festival a stew served, even serving three, five. (" Quanzhou Materia Medica" )2, cure scrofulous: Ding decane four two eight two roots, wine. The same decoction. (" south of the Five Ridges", recorded3herbs ). The snake sore, and snakebite: Ding, grassroots, existence of doped calcined. (" materia medica of raw" )4, cure snakebite: fresh Ding decane grassroots or herb, ramming wrings juice oral one cannikin, slag deposited the affected area, after six hours, then serving to compress. (" Quanzhou Materia Medica" )
[ ] the paper1" herbs of preparing to": pot liquor jieredu, casual nature. Treatment of boils, also the rule of snakebite. 2" Chinese materia medica and raw": toothache. 3" south of the Five Ridges" : cure scrofulous herbs.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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