Bluegrass

[ ] C o D Pinyin name be Z gave o Sh cabinet H e
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Medicine source: for Gramineae bluegrass roots.
Latin animal mineral name: Poa pratensis L.
Harvest and storage: summer, autumn roots to take control, fibrous roots and soil, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Kentucky bluegrass perennial herbs, roots lay prostrate. Culms smooth, high 50-75cm. Leaf sheaths smooth or rough, no ridge, longer than internodes, or upper leaf sheaths shorter than internodes; ligule membranous, apex truncate, long 1-2mm; leaf blade linear, flat or involute, top into navicular tip; smooth or slightly rough surface and edge, long 6.5-18cm, long Nie living more than 40cm, width 2-4mm. Panicle sections each having3-5branches; spikelets ovate, green, mature after the grass yellow, long 4-6mm,2-4flower. Ying ovoid or oval lanceolate,1-3portal, the main vein into the ridge and the edges are often pilose, base plate having woolly or rarely glabrous, apex acute to acuminate; Ying Ying Long first2.5-3mm, second3-4mm, a base plate having dense and long white lanose; palea slightly shorter than lemma, there are2 ridges, ridge often cilia or rough; anther length 1.5-2mm. Caryopsis fusiform or linear, and the inner, outer separation. Flower, fruit4-7.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: born in barren mountain, roadside and grassland.
Resource distribution: distribution in the northeast, north, East and southwest parts of.
[ ] the whole grass chemical composition containing vitamin A and L - amino adipic acid ( L - A - am-minoadipic acid ).
[ ]: pharmacological effects of hypoglycemic effect to normal hungry rabbit subcutaneous injection of bluegrass to extract, glucose was decreased, in3 hours after administration of the hypoglycemic effect of the most obvious characteristics, role similarities with insulin. For injection is equivalent to40g crude drug extracts, can make the high sugar content increased from 40g to100g, increased glucose tolerance in the role after stopping a few days remains. Patients with this medicine, urine was significantly reduced, but on ketone bodies in urine excretion without obvious effect. The extract also can accelerate the yeast glycolysis, its role is similar to the role of vitamins, may be associated with insulin.
[ function ] hypoglycemic. Primary diabetes mellitus
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,10-15g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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