Ants.

[ ] Ch Pinyin name" n be Y C, I
[ alias ] Zhang Ma, hemostatic grass
[ source ]
Medicine source: as pellitory microcolumn hemp herb.
Latin animal mineral name: Chamabainia cuspidata Wight
Harvest and storage: summer and autumn harvest, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of perennial herbs, high up to 60cm. Stems erect or rises, thick 2mm, unbranched or branched. Leaves opposite; petiole length 05-1.5cm; stipules obliquely triangular, length 3-6mm, often wrapped in glomerules; leaf blade ovate, ovate or rhombic nearly rhombic, length 2-5cm, width 1-2.5cm, apex acuminate, base broadly cuneate or subrounded, margin serrate, both surfaces sparsely shortly hairy; basal veins 3. Glomerules axillary, unisexual. Male flowers fascicled on female flower cluster; male flowers about 1.2mm in diameter; perianth segments 4, connate at base, apex caudate-acuminate, at the top of contrast with short angle; stamens 4; female perianth elliptic or obovate, apex shortly hairy, lash curler. Achenes small, narrowly obovate, long not to 1mm, night latch stigma ovate; night Cunhua is tubular, be shorthair. Flowering of 4-7 months, fr. 8-11.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in 1000-2400m elevation mountain forests or ditch.
Resource distribution: located in Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, sichuan.
[ ] slightly sour taste bitter; flat;
[ ] functions bleeding Shengji; dehumidification and dysentery. The main external bleeding; diarrhea; gastric abdominal pain
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 10-20g. External : the amount, trace and apply.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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