Imperata cylindrical pin

[ source ]" gleaning" from Chinese materia medica.
[ ] B I Pinyin name 's M 's o n Zh
English name [ ] Lalang Grass
[ alias ] Mao Miao, Mao bamboo shoot, Mao Zhen, Mao, Mao honey cone, Maoti, Mao pull, Mao Ya.
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Medicine source: Lalang grass newborn has not put.
Latin animal mineral name: Imperata cylindrica ( L. ) Beauv.var.major ( Nees ) C.E.Hubb.
Harvest and storage: 4-5 picking not open inflorescence, fresh or 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.
[ ] taste Gan; flat
[ ] indications hemostasis; detoxification. The main epistaxis; hematuria; blood stool; trauma; sore carbuncle swollen poison
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 9-15g. External : the amount, trace and apply or nasal plug.
[ ] the discussion
1" the classics": a main sewer.
2" on" resistance: can break the blood, treating diabetes.
The 3" Chinese Materia Medica": a main malignant sore swollen, did not collapse, boiling clothes. Students Ruo applying styptic. Boil take master epistaxis under blood and violence.
4" Hua Zi" through small intestine, materia medica: poison soft furuncle carbuncle does not head, concentrated decoction and alcohol.
5" Materia Medica": to apply through Ruo sore nose plug, flood, blood and Nixue stop violence.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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