Eragrostis

Pinyin name ] [ Dà Huà Mé I Cǎ o
[ alias ] star grass, even the West Eragrostis
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: for gramineous plant Eragrostis entire grass.
Latin animal mineral name: Eragrostis cilianensis ( All. ) Link ex Vignolo-Lutati
Harvest and storage: summer and autumn harvest, use fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Eragrostis annuals. Culms robust, high 30-90cm, diameter 3-5mm, erect and bushy, base usually geniculate, with 3-5Festival, festival has a conspicuous glands. Leaf sheaths loose wrap stems, veins with glands, the mouth of the sheath villous; ligule to 1ring beam into a short-haired, ca.0.5mm; leaf blade linear flat, stretch, long 6-20cm, wide 2-6mm, glabrous, veins and leaf margin have glands. Spikelets oblong or spire, long 5-20cm, branches stout, solitary, lift, intercellular pilose, branchlets and pedicels are glands; spikelets oblong or ovate-oblong, dark green with pale green or brown, flat pressing and bending, long 5-20mm; width of 2-3mm,10-40floret, spikelet removal solitary, often densely fascicled; glumes subequal, ca.2mm, Ying with 1 veins or second spikelets with 3 veins, ridges are glands; lemma widely ovate, Zhu end is blunt, first lemma ca.2.5mm, width of 1mm, lateral veins conspicuous, main veins glands, dark green and glossy in order to stop, persistent, slightly shorter than lemma, ridge with ciliolate; stamens 3, anthers0.5mm. Caryopsis suborbicular, ca.0.7mm. Flower, month of fruit period 7-10.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in desert grassland.
Resource distribution: distribution of several times the national.
[ ] taste Gan; light; cool
[ indications ] diuresis inducing; dispelling wind and clearing heat. The main heating shower; stone; red eye itch
[ usage] oral Decoction: fresh goods60-120g,15-30g. External application: suitable, washed fried.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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