Hanyu Pinyin: yangticao.

English name: SowthistleTasselflowerHerb.

Latin botanical and animal mineral name: Emiliasonchifolia (L.) DC.

Classification of efficacy: Heat-clearing medicine; Heat-clearing and detoxicating medicine; Cooling blood and stopping bleeding medicine; Water-inducing medicine.

Category: Asteraceae.

Alias: Purple-backed Grass, False Kale, Explosive Battle Grass, Red-backed Leaf, Red Under Leaf, Trumpet Red Grass, Small Dandelion, Seventy-two Flowers, Cow's Tail Knee, Purple-backed Plow Grass, Goat Grass, Heavenly Hair Grass, Earth Yellow Grass, Wild Kale, Milk Sap Grass, Empty Tubular Single, Thousand Suns of Red, Purple-backed Ground Dew, Wild Bitter Buyer, Hare Grass, Rabbit Ginseng, Boil Weed.

Taste: bitter flavor; cool in nature. [1]

Categorized as:

Functions: Clearing away heat and removing toxins; dispersing blood stasis and subduing swelling.

Indications: upper respiratory tract infections; oral ulcers; pneumonia; mastitis; enteritis; bacillary dysentery; urinary tract infections; sores and carbuncles; eczema; bruises.

Use and dosage: internal: decoction, 9-18g, fresh 15-30g; or pounded juice to swallow. External use: appropriate amount, decoction of water to wash; or pounded compress.

Ecology: Born in the grass by the village, roadside, field and wilderness.

Resource distribution: distributed in Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan.

Medicinal material origin: the whole grass of Asteraceae.

Harvesting and storage: it can be harvested all year round, washed, used fresh or dried in the sun.

2. Herbal Name: Sheep's Foot

Alias

Oriental Host, Lian Bug Lu, Ghost Eye, Defeated Vegetable Root, Sheep's Foot Rhubarb, Earth Rhubarb, Cow's Tongue Root, Cow's Hoof, Cow's Tongue Rhubarb, Wild Radish, Wild Pineapple, Ringworm Medicine, Mountain Radish, Cow's Tongue, Cow's Rhubarb

Herb properties

Whole grass length of about 30cm, rhizome elongated, terete, pale brownish-yellow; Stem less branched, thin cylindrical, with longitudinal lines, grayish green, basal leaves ovate, lyre-shaped, upper leaves smaller, base slightly embracing the stem; papery. Heads dry, flowers mostly deciduous, receptacle and involucre remaining, bracts tea-brown, membranous. Achenes light yellow-brown, crown hairs very numerous, white. There is a hay smell, taste light, slightly salty. [2]

The one with many dry leaves is preferable.

Contraindications

Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine Ⅱ: caution for pregnant women.

1. It is used to cool blood and stop bleeding with the leaves of cypress, and the two are necessary for the treatment of hemorrhagic cases in which blood-heat forces the blood to flow. [

2. With alum, detoxification and killing of worms and ringworm, used for carbuncle sores, eczema, scabies, ringworm itching.

Medicinal properties

Bitter; cold in nature.

Attributes to heart, liver and large intestine meridians.

Effects

Cleansing heat and relieving constipation; cooling blood and stopping bleeding; killing insects and relieving itching.

Attacks

Constipation; epistaxis; intestinal and bowel movements; hemorrhoidal blood; leakage; scabies; white baldness; carbuncle sores and poisons; bruises and injuries.

Head baldness and scabies, removing heat, yin erosion in women. ("Ben Jing") immersion gangrene hemorrhoids, kill insects. ("Bie Lu")

Head baldness, scabies and piles, and kill insects.