Ribs

[ source ] from the" doctor" BIE Lu
Pinyin name ] [ Dì Jī n
[ English ] Root or herb of Contorted name Tanglehead
[ alias ] Jian root, soil reinforcement, Huang Jian, Mao pin Cleistogenes, Mau thorn grass, heteropogon contortus
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: for gramineous plants yellow cogongrass rhizome or herb.
Latin animal mineral name: Heteropogon contortus ( L. ) Beauv.ex Roem.et Schult.
Harvest and storage: collected all the year round. Use fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Huangmao, perennial herb. Fibrous matter is tough. Culms erect, tufted, high 40-90cm, glabrous. Leaf sheaths compressed and ridged, glabrous or scabbard, finely pilose; ligule is hard, membranous, ca.1mm, truncate, with ciliate; leaf blade linear, up to 15cm, width 3-5mm, two sides all rough or above base sparsely pilose. Racemes solitary, long 3-6cm (Mount except), erect or slightly curved, lower with 3-14same-sex pairs, upper part can be up to 12members of the opposite sex; pregnant spikelet linear, long 6-8mm ( including ca.2mm base plate base plate ), sharp, with a brown beard; first glume herbaceous, be short stiff hairs, a back rounded, apex obtuse, margin Rolled Homogeneous first Ying, with 2 veins, veins are short stiff hairs, with membranous margin; second lemmas membranous, very narrow, extending into the mountain; mount two back to the geniculate awn, long 6-10cm, torsion is hispidulous; sterile spikelet deflection and slightly reversed, covering the pregnant spikelets, green or purplish, glabrous or strigose warts are gross. Flower, month of fruit period 7-11.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: born in the hillside meadow.
Resource distribution: located in Southern China, southwest and South Shaanxi, all over Zhejiang.
[ ] the chemical composition of hay ( blossom period acquisition ) moisture11.2%, ash 4.9%. Protein 3.9%, fat1.5%, crude fiber, carbohydrate42.5%36.O%. The polysaccharides of the Lord for semi cellulose. Low molecular sugar cane sugar ( sucrose ), glucose ( glucose ) ( fructose ), fructose, galactose alcohol ( galactitol ), myo-inositol ( Myo inositol ) and raffinose ( Raffinose ).
[ ] the pharmacological effect
See thyme.
1anti-inflammatory effect : Flower decoction or fluid extract can be used for bronchitis or other upper respiratory tract disorders as protective agent.
2: analgesic effect can also be used for neuritis or radiculitis as analgesics, this because of containing thymol.
[ ] taste Gan; cold
[ indications ] heat and thirst quencher; Qufeng desiccant. The main fever diabetes; rheumatoid arthritis; cough; vomiting
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,15-30g; or Daozhi; or leach liquor. External: amount, trace and apply.
[ ] the discussion
1" do not recorded": the main Qi, thirst, heat removal in the abdominal umbilical, milkweed.
2" schema": root, seedling, flowers with power and Imperata cylindrica.
3" herbs of preparing to" : cure heat cough, diarrhea and antiemetic, intestinal gas.
4" Chinese materia medica and raw": stop watery diarrhea, and gas heat pain, intestinal colic.
5" south of the Five Ridges" : the rationale for traumatic wound herbs.
6" Guizhou": the wind dehumidifier, herbal cough and cold.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/