Gill cover grass

[ source ]" Sichuan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine"
[ ] Pinyin name C G, I C be o
[ a ] large spines cover
[ source ] as the Compositae Luoping thistle root. Autumn in root, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of perennial, up to 1.5 meters high. Root stout, fibrous roots of white. Stems erect, with conspicuous longitudinal furrow, sparsely coiled fine fluff. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, 15 to 40 cm long, margin pinnately parted, lobes ovate-triangular, apex acupuncture, acupuncture and edge small eyelashes and serrate, base broadly, decurrent into the ear, green or dark green above, below white, densely white arachnoid hairs, upper stem leaves gradually smaller. Capitate, raw stems and branches end; involucre of 1 ~ 4, the outer layer of the shortest, lanceolate, gradually extending inward, to linear-lanceolate, on top of a white spines; all bisexual flowers; corolla tube elongated, 5 crack greatly; stamens 5, anthers born crown tube swelling department, united to form a column style apex 2 lobed. Achenes, oblong or cylindrical, dry crested yellow red. Florescence 5 to June. Fruit 7 to August.
[ ] in the roadside grass habitat distribution Xiangyang department. Distribution of Sichuan etc..
[ ] taste bitter, flat.
[ ] and functions, water, wind, tonic. Treatment of vomiting blood, blood, edema, weak, traumatic injury, carbuncle, swelling, prurigo, mange.
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 1 ~ 2 two.
[ ] * dictionary" excerpt"

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