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Chinese name: Japanese Thistle

Category: Whole grass

English name: Japanese Thistle Herb

Alias: General Grass, Cow Mouth spur, spur grass.

Source: It is the above-ground part of the thistle Cirsium japokicum DC.

Harvesting and processing: Cut the above-ground parts in summer and autumn, dry them in the sun or use them fresh.

Nature and flavor: Cool in nature, sweet and bitter in taste.

Plant form: Perennial herb, 0.5~1m high. The roots are clustered, conical, fleshy, and brown in color. The stem is upright, with fine vertical stripes, and white silky hairs at the base. The basal leaves are clustered, stalked, oblanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, 15-30cm long, deeply pinnately lobed, with toothed edges and acupuncture at the ends of the teeth. There are sparse white silky hairs on the upper surface and white silky hairs on the lower surface. There are long hairs on the veins; the stem leaves are alternate and the base is heart-shaped. The inflorescence is terminal; the involucre is bell-shaped, covered with spider-like hairs; the involucral bracts have 4 to 6 layers, lanceolate, and the outer layer is short; the flowers are bisexual, tubular, and purple; the anthers have appendages at the top and anthers at the base. tail. Achenes are oblong, with multi-layered, feathery, dark gray pappus. The flowering period is from May to August, and the fruiting period is from June to August.

Growing place: Born in mountains, roadsides, and wastelands. Produced in most parts of the country.

Chemical composition: Contains volatile oil and alkaloids; fresh leaves contain pectolinarin.

Functions and Indications: Cooling blood to stop bleeding, removing blood stasis and reducing swelling. It is used for epistaxis, hematemesis, hematuria, hematochezia, metrorrhagia, traumatic bleeding, carbuncles and sores.

Note: The roots are also used as medicine and have the same effects as the aerial parts.

Tandelion

Scientific name: Taraxacum officnala

English name: Dandelion

Pinyin: Pú gōng yīng

Latin Name: Herba Taraxaci

Family: Compositae

Alias: dandelion, edible dandelion, bed-wetting grass, Western dandelion, dandelion ("A Thousand Golden Prescriptions"), 落褥 Grass ("Tang Materia Medica"), Dandelion ("Qian Jin Yifang") Dandelion ("Compendium of Materia Medica"), Di Ding ("Compendium on Materia Medica"), Golden Hairpin Grass ("Shisu Materia Medica"), Bibi Dingcai , Huang Hua Miao, Huang Hualang ("Compendium of Materia Medica for Famine Relief"), Elu Ying ("Geng Xin Jade Book"), Po Po Ding ("Southern Yunnan Materia Medica"), Bai Gu Ding ("Wild Recipes"), Huang Hua Di Ding, Dandelion Ding , True Phlegm Grass, Dog Milk Grass ("Compendium"), Milk Grass ("Ben Jing Feng Yuan"), Can Feizhui ("Preparations for the Properties of Herbal Medicines"), Yellow Dog Head ("An Illustrated Study of Plant Names and Facts"), Bu Di centipede, ghost lantern ("Herbal Recipes"), goat's milk grass ("Compendium of Materia Medica"), Shuangying Bu Di ("Gui>> Folk Prescription Collection"), yellow flower grass, Gu Guding ("Jiangsu Herbal Medicine") 》), Maoluobo ("Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine"), Huanghua Panax notoginseng ("Hangzhou Medical Plants")

Flowering period - March to August

Parts used - flowers , leaves, stems, roots