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[ ] from Kunming."" common folk herbal medicine
Pinyin name ] [ Dì Gā o Y o
[ ] Herb of Broadleaf Cudweed English name
[ alias ] Bergenia, mist plants, Pulsatilla, hair incense, edge stem green, wild buffalo, Gerbera piloselloides CASS, crow Artemisia cotton, cotton grass
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: as the Compositae adnate cudweed entire grass or leaf.
Latin animal mineral name: Gnaphlium adnatum ( Wall.ex DC. ) Kitam. [Anaphalis adnata Wall.ex DC.; Gnaphalium foirmosanum Hayata]
Harvest and storage : a show fresh, can also be dried to harvest in autumn.
[ ] the original morphology adnate cudweed herb, high 60-100cm. Stems erect, stout, woody at base, branched distally, densely white thick woolly. Basal leaves at flowering stage, wither; stem leaves alternate, blade obovate-lanceolate or wrap around acicular bar, long 4-8cm, wide 7-25mm, apex with small pointed, base narrow, amplexicaul, margin entire, veins 3, two densely villous, densely scurfy hairs miscellaneous, upper leaves gradually small, lanceolate lanceolate or strip. Heads in the majority, the stems and branches ends arranged into a ball close compound corymbose,5-7mm diameter; involucral globose, ca.6mm, wide 5-6mm; involucral bracts5-6layer, white or yellowish white, scarious, outer bracts shorter, broadly ovate, apex obtuse, densely tomentose, inner oblong or narrow oblong, apex subacute; flowers yellow, periphery has a plurality of female flowers, central4-7bisexual flowers; flower corolla filiform,3-4 has a small, bisexual flower to shape,5tooth crack, achenes oblong, papillate; crested1 columns. Florescence 8-10 month.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in forest edge, grasslands on mountain slopes or in shrubs.
Resource distribution: located in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hunan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan.
[ ] taste bitter cold;
[ indications ] heat dampness detoxification Sanjie; hemostasis. The main damp-heat dysentery; abscess scrofula; toxicity; traumatic hemorrhage.
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,9-15g. External: amount, trace and apply.
[ ] the discussion
1" Guangxi drug-sik list:" dysentery, rheumatism, infantile convulsion, asthma.
2" Guizhou drug-sik directory" in treating infantile aphtha: black, red and white scours.
3" Kunming folk medicinal herbs commonly used": anti-inflammatory, bulk swollen, bleeding. Treatment of positive sore, stab bleeding.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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