The big bud a plantar grass

[ ] Pinyin name Dà Bā o Jiǎ Zhí Cǎ o
[ alias ] seven day wind, bamboo dish,
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: as the Commelinaceae plant bract of common dayflower herb.
Latin botanical name animal fossil:
Harvest and storage: summer and autumn harvest, clean, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original form large bracts erect perennial herb of Dayflower, stout, about 80cm high. Unbranched or branched distally, the young side were1Brown pilose to glabrous, posterior. Ye Husheng; leaf blade lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, long 10-16cm, wide 2-4.5cm, apex long acuminate, base tapering sides puberulous or short setose; leaf sheaths broad, long 2.5-3cm, wide 0.8-1.5cm, margin densely brown long eyelashes. Involucral bracts several in stem top integrated head shape, lower margin connate into a flat funnelform, ca.2cm; cymes of flowers3-7, with a short stalk; sepals 3, membranous, lanceolate, ca.5mm; petals 3, membranous, blue, spatulate or obovate, long 5-8mm, width about 4mm, inside2clawed; stamens 6, fertile stamens 3, filaments glabrous; ovary nearly oval,3 room. Capsule pours egg form three prismatic, ca.4mm,3valves, each chamber having1 seeds. Seeds ellipsoid. Florescence 6-8 month, month of fruit period 9-12.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: an elevation of (110- )1000-2000( -2700) m streams, valleys and slopes of the forest of wet places.
Resource distribution: located in Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hunan, Hainan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet and other places.
[ ] taste sweet, cold
[ indications ] and water swelling; detoxification; cooling blood to stop bleeding. The main edema; athlete; urination; heating hematuria; epistaxis; flooding; diarrhea; sore throat; erysipelas; boils; snake bites
[ usage] oral Decoction: fresh goods,15-30g,30-45g; or ramming juice containing pharynx. External: amount, trace and apply.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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