Large Cephalanoplos segetum

[ English ] all grass of Tibet Thistle name
[ alias ] thistle, Cirsium japonicum reservoir
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: as the Compositae tribute of thistle herb.
Latin animal mineral name: Cirsium eriophoroideum ( Hook.f. ) Pe-trak. [Cnicus eriophoroides Hook.f Cirsium bolocephalum Pe-trak.].
Harvest and storage: summer, autumn digging, cutting drying.
[ ] the original morphology in thistle perennial is herbaceous, tall 60-120cm. Stems erect, stout, distally densely arachnoid woolly. Lower and middle parts of stem leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, ear, sessile, semiamplexicaul, pinnatifid, lobes broadly triangular, margin size, tooth, thorn grows 5-15mm, two green, sparsely yellow above3-8mm acupuncture, the following veins pubescent; upper leaf strip lanceolate, with sparsely spiny teeth. Capitate inflorescences solitary or 1-2set in the branch end, globose, diameter 4-5cm, sessile or short stem, base with bractlike leaflets; involucral densely arachnoid tomentum; outer and middle involucral bracts ovate oblong, apex narrowly linear, dorsal ridge, inner grew, linear, apex long acuminate; the whole is tubular, corolla dark purple, ca.3.8cm, tube is a minister about 2 times. 4.5-7mm achenes oblong, compressed, pale brown and black, slightly bright; crested feather, dirty white, apex slightly rough.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: born in hillside, grass or bushes.
Resource distribution: distribution in Sichuan, Yunnan and Tibet.
[ ] taste sweet; bitter cold;
[ indications ] cooling blood; stasis detumescence. The main hematemesis; pain; hematuria; uterine bleeding; jaundice; sore.
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,9-15g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]


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