Alias: cowhide jelly, paederia, red-boned snake, stinky vine, chicken fragrant vine;

Rubiaceae, Paederia.

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Paederia asiatica, a kind of herb, grows in warm and humid bushes and has strong vitality. Widely distributed in the southern slope of Qinling Mountains and Taiwan Province Province.

Affine rat grass

brief introduction

affine cudweed

affine cudweed

Also known as Foer grass, bone-chasing wind and villous grass. Rat's ear, heartless grass, rat's ear, citronella, ephedra, mugwort leaf, auricularia auricula, Artemisia annua, rice koji, hairy ear, chrysanthemum morifolium, Cynanchum multiflorum Thunb., Euphorbia japonica Thunb., goldenrod herb, goldenrod herb, goldenrod herb, goldenrod herb, fragrant, clean vegetables and cotton vegetables.

The source is the whole grass of the compositae plant Gnaphalocrocis paniculata.

The plant is a biennial herb, mainly 10 ~ 15 cm, and the whole plant is densely covered with white hair. Stems erect, usually branched at base, clustered. Leaves alternate, the basal leaves fall off after flowering, the lower and middle leaves are spoon-shaped or oblanceolate, 2 ~ 6 in length and 4 ~ 12 mm in width, the base gradually narrows and descends, and there are white hairs on both sides. The heads are numerous and arranged in an umbrella shape; Involucre spherical, bell-shaped, 3-layer involucre, golden yellow, dry film; The flowers are yellow, the corolla of the marginal female flowers is filiform, and the central bisexual flowers are tubular. Achenes are rectangular, papillate, and the crown hairs are yellow and white. The flowering period is from April to July, and the fruiting period is from August to September.

Born on hillsides, roadsides and fields. Location: Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Harvest in spring and summer flowering period, remove impurities and dry in the sun.

The chemical constituents of the whole plant include volatile oil, luteolin -4'- glucoside, stigmasterol, potassium chloride, potassium nitrate and luteolin. The flowers contain rhamnoside (2', 4,4'-trihydro -6 '- methoxycholine -4 'β-d- glucopyranoside).

The taste is bland and slightly sweet.

Its functions mainly include eliminating phlegm, relieving cough, relieving asthma, expelling wind and removing dampness. Used for cough, excessive phlegm, asthma and rheumatic joint pain.

Alias yellow-flowered Daqu grass, yellow-flowered Daqu grass, yellow-flowered Daqu grass, foxtail algae, soil fungus Chen [Guangdong] and distiller's yeast velvet.

Rodent is the whole grass of plants belonging to the genus Rodent in Compositae. Harvest in spring and summer, wash and use fresh or dry in the sun.

Sweet and flat in nature.

Functions mainly include relieving cough and asthma, lowering blood pressure, expelling wind and removing dampness. Used for treating common cold, cough, bronchitis, asthma, hypertension, bean disease, rheumatism, lumbago and leg pain; External use for treating traumatic injury and poisonous snake bite.

Usage and dosage 0.5 ~1; Apply appropriate amount externally, and mash the fresh product and apply it to the affected area.

Excerpted from the National Collection of Chinese Herbal Medicine