Nosebleed grass

[ source ]" Sichuan" from Chinese medicinal herbs
[ ] B Pinyin name Xi C be o Golf
English name ] [ Axillary Balm, Herb of Axillary Balm
[ alias ] wormseed, red, small live the United States Mint
[ source ]
Medicine source: Labiatae Yunnan Schizonepeta entire grass.
Latin animal mineral name: Melissa axillaris ( Benth. ) Bakh . F.
Harvest and storage: summer, autumn harvest the whole grass, use fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of perennial herbs, high 0.6-1m, pubescent. With the underground stem. Stems four prismatic, with branches. Leaves opposite, petiole length 2-25mm, densely pubescent; leaf blade ovate, long 1.2-6cm, 9-30mm wide, apex acute or short acuminate, base rounded, obtuse or subcordate, margin serrate crenate, sparsely pubescent above, below both sides near the midrib with purple or umbrella of the Department of purple, glabrous or nearly only along veins pubescent. Verticillaster inflorescence few to many flowered, axillary; bracts small, ciliate; calyx campanulate, long 6-8mm, outside be jointed villous, inside glabrous, upper lip 3 teeth, teeth of lower lip shorter, with the upper lip subequal, 2 teeth, teeth lanceolate; corolla white or pale red, ca. 1cm, outside pubescent, inside glabrous, apex emarginate upper lip, cleft lip 3, middle lobe larger; stamens 4, before long, Inner Mongolia, anther locules 2; ovary 4 crack, slightly longer than stamens and style, stigma 2 crack; disc 4 crack. Nutlets ovoid. Flowering of 6-11 months, fr. 7-11.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in elevation of 600-2800m mountain, hill, valley or on the roadside.
Resource distribution: located in Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Tibet etc..
[ ] taste bitter astringent; flat;
[ function ] cooling blood to stop bleeding; heat-clearing and detoxicating. The main hematemesis; epistaxis; metrorrhagia; belt; leprosy; pruritus; scabies; snake bites; bad breath
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 30-60g. External: fresh goods amount, trace and apply or washed fried; or Ramming Pile nasal plug.
[ ] the treatise" Sichuan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": clearing heat, detoxification. Treating rheumatism numbness, leprosy, hematemesis, epistaxis, skin itching, simplex, a disorder, disintegrating belt.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/