Cogon grass flowers

[ source ]" Materia Medica" from Hua Zi.
[ ] B I M 's Pinyin name 's o Hu.
English name [ ] Flower of Lalang Grass
[ alias ] Jian flower, Mao Hua, Mao, Mao Zhen flower flowers.
[ source ]
Medicine source: Lalang grass flower spike.
Latin animal mineral name: Imperata cylindrica ( L. ) Beauv.var.major ( Nees ) C.E.Hubb.
Harvest and storage: 4-5 flower in full bloom before harvesting. Take off take stem spikes of flowers, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of cogongrass, perennial herb. High 20-100cm. Rhizomes creeping white, cross walk, densely scaly. Stem from birth, straight, cylindrical, smooth, glabrous, base the Ministry is most old leaf sheaths and residues. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate; root leaf length of several plant and equal; stem leaves short, wide 3-8mm, leaf sheaths brown, glabrous, or upper and edge and the mouth of the sheath with cilia, with short ligule. Panicle spikelike tightening, terminal, cylindric, length 5-20cm, width 1-2.5cm; spikelets lanceolate or oblong, arranged in pairs in the inflorescence axis, wherein a spikelets with long stems, another small terrier shorter; flowers bisexual, each spikelet with 1 flower, base the Ministry is white pilose; two Ying equal or first glume slightly shorter and narrower, with 3-4 veins, second Ying is wide, with 4-6 veins; glumes membranous, glabrous, first lemma ovate-oblong, palea shorter, second lemmas lanceolate, and palea equaling; stamens 2, anthers yellow, ca. 3mm; pistil 1, with a longer style, stigma feather. Caryopsis ellipsoid, dark brown, mature infructescence are white villous. Flowering of 5-6 months, fr. 6-7.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in the sunny hay or hillside.
Resource distribution: distribution in the northeast, North China, East China, South China, southwest and Shaanxi, Gansu and other places.
[ character ] trait identification of dry flower spikes are cylindrical, long 5-20cm, spikelet base and glume densely elongated filiform hairs, accounted for the vast majority of the flower spike, gray, light and soft, if the batting. Spikelets yellowish brown, between the elongated filiform hairs, not easy to fall off, outer glume oblong lanceolate, membranous; pistil 2 lobed, lobes linear, lobes with brown hair. Inflorescence handle is cylindrical, green. Gas, light. To dry, white, leafless, short handle is preferred.
[ ] in pharmacological effects of daily oral Decoction 0.5g / kg, take 3 days in all, taking fifth days, coagulation and bleeding time were better than those in the control group to reduce. Effect can be maintained for several days. And can reduce the risk of vascular permeability ( trypan blue permeability test ).
[ ] taste Gan; temperature
[ ] hemostatic functions; pain. The main hematemesis; epistaxis; stab
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 9-15g. External: warm enough or nasal plug.
[ ] the discussion
1" Tang Materia Medica": the main epistaxis, hematemesis, moxibustion sores.
2" Materia Medica": Hua Zi An knife arrow sores, stop the bleeding and pain.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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