Arrowhead grass

[ source ]" Red River" from Chinese herbal medicine
[ ] C Pinyin name G C o reports gave Golf
English name [ ] all-grass of Arrowleaf Spodiopogon
[ alias ] the birth of grass, grass lucidum
[ source ]
Medicine source: for Gramineae Spodiopogon sagittifolius entire grass.
Latin animal mineral name: Spodiopogon sagittifolius Rendle
Harvest and storage: collected all the year round, clean, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Spodiopogon sagittifolius, perennial herb. With short rhizomes; the more rugged. Stalk spare bundle, upright, high 60-100cm, base diameter of about 2mm. Leaf sheaths smooth, glabrous; ligule membranous, long 2-4mm; leaves linear-lanceolate, and up to 10cm long handle, glabrous above, below has an elongated warts are gross. Cone of sequence oval, long 9-15cm, width 4-5cm, decentralization nearly whorled, thin, sparse axils between with fur, the Minister Brown and glabrous below dew, with elongated warts are gross. Inflorescence ovoid, length 9-15cm, width 4-5cm, nearly whorled branches, thin, sparse axils between with fur, the Minister of bare and glabrous, usually only near the end of the 1 section called surface and containing 2 spikelets; sometimes with section 2-3, thin sections may each with 1 spikelets, nodes inflated bearded wool; rachis internode and pedicel sometimes with cilia; spikelets with long 5-6.5mm, ash green, base bearded; two glume equal in length, herbaceous, villous, margin and apex nearly membranous, apex obtuse or main veins slightly prominent small cusp, first with 10-13 second Ying Ying veins, veins with 8-11 first flowers; male; lemma hyaline membranous, equaling or slightly shorter than first lemmas, parted to middle, lobes or teeth fair as a coarse, geniculate awns; margin with ciliate, apex sometimes with 2-3 shallow teeth; anthers yellow, ca. 3mm; ovary oblong, ca. 1.5mm; styles 2, 1.5mm long; stigma broom brush, ca. 3mm. Flower, fruit, summer and autumn.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in 1500-1800m elevation mountain forest.
Resource distribution: distribution in Yunnan.
[ ] a taste of nature;
[ ] the liver meridian tropism
[ function ] regulate menstruation attending; oxytocin; gas line. The main menorrhagia; dystocia; chest; flatulence
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 9-15g, fresh goods, 15-30g.
[ attach ] of Party treat menorrhagia: fresh arrowhead grass five money to one or two, Ye Xiahua root five money, decoction. The treatment of dystocia ( birth canal in the fetal position, under normal circumstances): arrowhead grass five money, spring five money, decoction. The treatment of chest pain, flatulence, impotence: fresh arrowhead grass five yuan to one or two, decoction.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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