The grass dragon

[ ] C o L Pinyin name be" n be
[ alias ] water Ying, Tian Shimei grass, needle grass, water, grass, sweet Tian Fu Xiantao must be male, by water of osteolysis, clove, false pawpaw
[ source ]
Medicine source: for Onagraceae plant leaves clove Polygonum entire grass.
Latin animal mineral name: Ludwigia hyssopifalia ( G . Don ) Exell [ Jussiaea linifolia Vahl; J, hyssopifolia G, Don; J.sup-pruticosa auct.non L.]
Harvest and storage: summer, autumn harvest the whole grass, wash, cut, use fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of annuals, high 20-60cm, glabrous. Stems erect, with3-4 edge, branches slender. Leaves alternate; stalked or sessile; leaf blade lanceolate, long 1-3( - 9) cm, width 0.2-1.5( - 3) cm, apex acuminate, base narrowly cuneate, lateral veins11-17 on, entire. Medicine axillary; sepals 4, lanceolate,3veins; petals 4, yellow, oblong, ca.2.5mm, shorter than sepals; stamens 8; ovary inferior, styles short, stigma oblate. Capsule green or pale purple, length 1.2--2cm, diameter 1-2mm; seminal majority. Flowering in summer, autumn.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in an elevation of 240-750m swamps, wet grassland, cropland edge, ditch, river.
Resource distribution: located in Taiwan, Hunan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi and throughout the southwest.
[ ] taste spicy; bitter cold;
[ ] published and detoxification functions; diuretic; cooling blood to stop bleeding. The main cold and fever; sore throat; toothache; sore tongue; dysentery; edema; with pain; malnutrition; hemoptysis; hemoptysis; hematemesis hematochezia metrorrhagia;;; carbuncle sore furuncle
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,10-30g. External : the amount, trace and apply or Decoction gargle.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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