Wheatgrass

[ ] Pinyin name B n be C be o
[ source ]
Medicine source: for gramineous plants from the root or the whole grass.
Latin animal mineral name: Leynus secalinus ( Gcorgi ) Tzvel. [ Triticum secalinum Georgi; Aneurolepidium dasystachy ( Trin. ) Nevski]
Harvest and storage: summer and autumn harvest, cut, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Leymus perennial. With lower and horizontal rhizome. Stem single or caespitose, erect, high 40-100cm, 3-5 Festival, glabrous, or in the inflorescence of densely pilose. Leaf sheaths glabrous, or in young when the margin ciliate; ligule membranous, truncate, long 1-1.5mm; leaf blade length 5-30cm, width 4-7mm, flat or involute, above and below rough edges or pubescent, smooth or slightly rough. Spikes, erect, long 10-15 ( - 24 ) cm, width 10-17mm, grey green; spike wheel pubescent, festival and edge pilose, internodes length 3-7mm, base up to 20mm; spikelets usually 2-3, dilute 1 or 4 in each section, long 10-20mm, including 4-7 ( - 10 ) flower flowers; rachilla internodes length 1-1.5mm, adnate Shorthair; glumes shorter than spikelet, linear-lanceolate, apex narrow such as mango, not covering the first lemma base, with inconspicuous veins 3, upper rough, margin with cilia, first glume shorter than second 8-15mm long glume, lemma lanceolate, margin membranous;, apex acuminate or long 1-3mm hair, back with 5 veins pubescent or glabrous, upper part, base plate with about 1mm long pilose, first lemma length 8-10 ( - 14 ) mm, palea and lemma equaling, apex often micro 2 crack, ridge of the upper half of a ciliated; anther length 3.5-4mm. Flower, fruit 6-10.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: often was born in sandy, plain green and mountain grassland.
Resource distribution: distribution in the northeast, north, northwest and Sichuan etc..
[ ] taste sweet; bitter cold;
[ ] functions of clearing heat and removing dampness; asthma; hemostasis. The main gonorrhea; vaginal discharge; asthma; blood in sputum; epistaxis
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 30-60g; or as tea.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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