Cramp grass

[ ] Ch u J Pinyin name n C be o
[ alias ] insects sheets, bones dish, single dorsal lobe, green grass, gold, regardless of around, big e, vegetables, grass, grass, ground reinforcement lime small Shenjincao, rear single grass, Yunnan chickweed, white bugle, chicken bone grass, Tang Gen grass, stone chickweed, glutinous rice.
[ source ]
Medicine source: Caryophyllaceae Stellaria stone students full of grass.
Latin animal mineral name: Stellaria saxatilis Buch.-Ham ( 3.vestita Kurz ).
Harvest and storage: summer, autumn collection complete grass, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original form of creeping perennial vine herbs, long 60-90cm. The entire plant densely white stellate pilose. Stem base prostrate, upper half erect, green ash, qualitative fragile brittle branches, sparse, nodes inflated, adventitious roots. Leaves alternate; petiole short and nearly sessile; leaf blade ovate-elliptic or narrowly ovate, long 2-3.5cm, 8-12mm wide, apex acuminate, base cordate or micro amplexicaul, margin entire, two sides by white stellate hairs, following more frequent. Two dichasial cyme thin, elongated peduncle, in axils of leaves or 2 branches fork; pedicels slender, unequal; bracts smaller; sepals 5, lanceolate, ca. 4mm, outside stellate pilose; petals 5, white, slightly shorter than calyx, 2 parted to base; stamens 10; ovary superior, style 3-4. Capsule is long ovate, and host of calyx length. Seeds numerous, nearly black, with tubercles. Flowering of 4-7 months, fr. 7-8.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in an elevation of 600-2300m Valley grass and desert mountain, field, road.
Resource distribution: distribution in the southwest and Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Zhejiang, Taiwan, Henan, Hubei and other places.
[ character ] trait distinguishing the grass long 60-90cm. Stem cylindrical, brittle and easily broken, with vascular ray like band, named cramps grass, densely pubescent distally, thin branches. Leaves opposite, entire leaves egg shape is elliptic or narrowly ovate, long 2-3.5cm, width 8-12mm, two sides has nearly sessile stellate hairs. Cymes, in axils of leaves or two branches, all densely stellate tomentose; sepals 5, petals 5, lanceolate; calyx slightly shorter than 2, apex 5-parted; stamens 10; style 3-4. Capsule, and places a few equaling calyx. Seeds numerous, black, surface have tubercles. Gas, light.
[ ] the taste of Xin; cool; the small poison
[ ] liver spleen meridian tropism;
[ ] liver functions; Shujin Huoxue; dampness; detoxification. The main stroke not language; Kouyanwaixie; limb numbness; rheumatism; traumatic injury; jaundice hepatitis; leucorrhea; it is
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 6-15g; or sparkling wine. External : the amount, trace and apply.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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