The efficacy and function of one-legged gold is to clear away heat and detoxification, eliminate accumulation and stagnation. One-legged gold is the main medicine in the formula, cool in nature, sweet and light in taste, and enters the liver meridian, which has the effect of strengthening the spleen, eliminating food, calming the liver and clearing away heat, and it is the commonly used herbal medicine for treating children's chancre, and summer fever in the south, and it is also known as the "chancre grass".
Malt and hawthorn are two medicines in the famous tea drink "Jiao Sanxian", hawthorn is good at eliminating the accumulation of overeating greasy meat and food, and malt is good at eliminating the accumulation of starchy food such as rice and noodles. Fried malt is sweet and warm in nature, and enters the spleen and stomach meridians to promote digestion, strengthen the spleen and open the stomach. Lean meat can nourish blood, nourish qi, nourish yin and moisten dryness. Honey dates are good for the stomach and liver, eliminating food, tonifying the lungs and moistening dryness.
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The one-legged gold is a small annual herb, semi-parasitic, 6-25 cm tall, rough and hirsute throughout; the stems are mostly quadrangular with 2 longitudinal grooves, unbranched or slightly branched at the base. Leaves are opposite in the lower part, alternate in the upper part, sessile, the blade linear or narrowly ovate, 5 to 12 mm long, 1 to 2 mm wide, but the lowermost leaves are often reduced to scales.
The stem is single or with lower branches, slender, 3-15 cm long, gray-brown, covered with coarse short hairs, and the stem bears sparse microscopic fibrous roots, which are slightly pliable. Leaves small, alternate, linear or lanceolate, the upper leaves are larger, about 4 to 10 mm long, often adnate to the stem, the lower leaves are small, scale-like. Flowers yellow or purple, axillary or arranged in sparse spikes.
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