Bang Bang grass

[ B, n ] Pinyin name be B, n C o be be
[ alias ] of Pseudostellaria heterophylla
[ source ]
Medicine source: Caryophyllaceae short kid ginseng dried root tuber.
Latin animal mineral name: Pseudostellaria maximowicziana ( Franch.et Pax ex Pax et Sav. ) Hoffm. ( Krascheninikowia maximowicziana Franch.et Sav. )
Harvest and storage of stem and leaf wilt: summer most when the excavation, wash, remove fibrous roots, dried or boiling water a little hot after the sun.
[ ] the original morphology of perennial herbs, high 8-10cm. Caudex fusiform, single life, there are many branched rootlets. Stems single, erect, with two rows of pilose, central branch. Leaves opposite; has a long handle; leaf blade elliptic, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, length 1-2cm, width 3-5mm. Flower two : common flowers on the branches or two branches fork single students; sepals 5, lanceolate, outside densely pilose; petals 5, obovate or elliptic-lanceolate, apex truncate, long sepals 2-2.5 times, white, margin entire, apex obtuse or truncate, stamens 10, shorter than petals ovary ovoid,, styles 2 or 3, linear, stigma capitate; atresia peanut stem base lower leaf axils, slightly small, hairy pedicels, sepals 4. Capsule is slightly longer than calyx, 4 valves. Seeds papillate. Florescence in May, fruit period in July.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in an elevation of 1000-2300m under the bush or Grass River wetland.
Resource distribution: distribution in the northeast, northwest and southwest each district.
[ ] taste sweet; bitter; tepid
[ ] s lung functions; spleen; Yangyin shengjin. The main Feixu cough; spleen deficiency on spontaneous; palpitations; fatigue; dry mouth
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 6-12g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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