Carpet grass

[ ]" Materia Medica" from Quanzhou.
Pinyin name ] [ Dì Zhā n Cǎ o
[ ] Herb of Spathulate Sundew English name
[ alias ] Reinwardtia indica, Drosera spatulata Labill, world flowers, flowers.
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: droseraceae plant spoon leaf sundew entire grass.
Latin botanical name: Drosera spathulata Labill. animal fossil
Harvest and storage: summer, autumn harvest, cleaning dirt, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of spoon leaf perennial sundew. Stem short, not with corms. Ye Jie basal, mosaic type are arranged in a rosette, close to the ground; petiole flat, from bottom to top, gradually expanding; stipules membranous, light red, long 4-6mm, usually 3lobed, lobes and middle2-3shallow or deep cleft; blade spatulate,1-2cm long,2-5mm wide, leaf margin glandular hairs of up to5mm, purple color, leaf above glandular hairs shorter. Helicoid cyme1-2, long 4-16cm, extracted from the leaves, inflorescence handle, pedicel and calyx were fine flocculence capitate; bracts subulate, ca.2mm; calyx 5, bell, persistent; petals 5, obovate, ca.2mm, purplish red; stamens 5, ca.2mm; ovary ellipsoid, style 3, each column2 crack base, persistent. Capsule obtriangular, involute, ripe when3 crack. Seeds and small, ovate or elliptic, black, with honeycomb lattice veins. Flower, month of fruit period 3-9.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in dank slope and rock shrub or grass, as well as the wetland near the ditch.
Resource distribution: distribution Fujian, Guangdong, Taiwan.
[ character ] character identification the whole grass roll dough. Short stalk shrinkage, base often elongated to form root, top has residual stems. Leaves basal, a mosaic of overlapping, leaf blade flattened to spatulate,1-2cm long,2-5mm wide, base ministry gradually narrow margin with dense and slightly longer purple-red glandular hairs, ca.5mm, hairs shorter leaves above, below a few glabrous; petioles without obvious. Stem length10-15cm, took off. Gas, slightly bitter taste.
[ ] the taste of cold light;
[ ] to the heart; lung; stomach meridian
[ indications ] of Qingre Liyan; cooling blood detoxification. The main cold; lung; cough; thirst; hematemesis; hemoptysis; throat moth; boils; gonorrhea
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, fresh goods15-30g. External: amount, trace and apply.
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