), fox tail, finger pen ("Nanning City Drugs Zhi"), cow's tail flower ("Shandong Traditional Chinese Medicine"), dog's tail cocklebur ("Min Dong Materia Medica").

2.4 Source

The stem, leaves and roots of Celosia argentea, family Amaranthaceae.

2.5 Form

Annual herb, 60-80 centimeters tall, glabrous throughout. Stem erect, green or reddish purple, usually branched. Leaves alternate; lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 5 to 9 turns meters long, 1 to 3 cm wide, apex acuminate, base decurrent into petiole, entire. Spikes solitary at stem apex or branch ends, terete or paniculate, 3-10 cm long; flowers densely inserted, at first light red, then silvery white; each flower with 3 scarious bracts; perianths 5, scarious, oblong-lanceolate; stamens 5, anthers pink, butternut-shaped inserted; ovary oblong, style linear, red, stigma 2-lobed. Utricle globose-capped; seeds several, oblate, hard, black and shiny. Flowering period May to July. Fruiting from July to September.

2.6 Habitat

Born in the wilderness on roadsides, ravines, riverbanks, sand dunes and other loose soil; also cultivated. It is also cultivated. It is wild or cultivated in most parts of China.

2.7 Chemical composition

The whole grass contains a lot of oxalic acid, up to 12.5% when growing for 2 weeks, and then gradually decreased to about 9%.

2.8 Taste and odor

① Ben Jing: "Bitter flavor, slightly cold."

② "Bielu": "non-toxic."

③ "Compendium": "Bitter, slightly cold, non-toxic."

2.9 Functions and Indications

Drying dampness and clearing heat, killing insects and stopping bleeding. It is used to treat wind and body itching, scabies, hemorrhoids, and bleeding gold sores.

① "Ben Jing": "The main evil, skin heat, wind itching, kill three insects."

② "Other Records": "Treatment of evil sores, scabies and lice, hemorrhoids and erosion, the lower part of the anonymous sores."

③ "Tang Materia Medica": "Pound the juice of a single serving, a great cure for warm ulcers, sweet anonymity."

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Stop gold sores blood."

2.10 Usage and dosage of Celosia argentea

Internal: decoction or pounded juice, fresh 1 to 2 taels. External use: pounding compress.

2.11 Appendix

① Treatment of rheumatism and body pain: Celosia argentea root one or two. Pig's foot section or chicken and duck stewed. ("Quanzhou Materia Medica")

② treatment of lower elimination: Celosia argentea root one or two. Frog stew. ("Quanzhou Materia Medica")

③ treatment of cholera: Celosia whole grass, rotting maidservant, cranesbill each five money. Decoction of water, morning and evening before dinner.

④ treatment of skin wind-heat sores and itching: Celosia argentea stems and leaves. Water decoction wash the affected area, wash must avoid the wind.

⑤ Treatment of women's vaginal itching: Celosia argentea stems and leaves three to four taels. Add water and decoction, smoke and wash the affected area.

⑥ treatment of bleeding wounds: fresh Celosia leaves pounded, applied to the wound, gauze bandage. (③) The following formula is from Jiangxi "Manual of Herbal Medicine")

2.12 Excerpts

"* Dictionary"

Formulas using the traditional Chinese medicine Celosia argentea Celosia San

: qīngxiāngsǎn "Thousand Gold" Volume 18: Fang name: Celosia argentea San Composition: Celosia argentea 1 two, heron reeds 4 two, wolf's teeth 3 points, orange peel 2 two ...

iāngguītāng prescription: Colla Corii Asini 2 taels, Angelica sinensis 2 taels, Celosia argentea 2 taels, moxa leaves 1. Functions and Indications: (Stalking worms) Worm erosion of the lower part of the itch, ...

Celosia Seed Bullet

sǎn "Sheng Ji General Records" Volume 103: Fang name: Celosia Seed Bullet Ingredients: Celosia Seed 1 two, cassia seed (fried) 1 two, Huanglian (beard) 1 two, gentiana ...

Celosia pill

ǐwán "Taiping Shenghui Fang" Volume 33: Celosia pill: prescription: Celosia sweet melon seed kernel cuscuta (wine soaked for three days, exposure to dry, do not pestle and mortar for the end) Tribulus terrestris ...

údān prescription: ghost mortar 1 two (hair), bitter ginseng half a taels (filing), half a taels of Celosia, grass gentian (reed) half a taels, sulfur 1 points, scarlet silk 1 points, ...

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Celosia argentea in the ancient books "Pu Ji Fang": [Volume 81 eyes and eyes] eyes dim

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"Ancient and modern medical system of the book": [Volume 61 ophthalmology] prescription

Meng flower scattered treatment of pediatric pox and rash, and all the hot poisonous eye. Mimonghua (one and a half money) Celosia (one money) cassia seeds (fried) car Qianzi (fried. Five minutes each) on the powder. (Each five points) on the end ...

"Yinhai Jingwei": [Volume II] treatment of pediatric chancre injury

) Scutellaria baicalensis Schizandra chinensis Fangfeng (remove reeds) Zedoary almonds (fried peel tip) fine Xin Celosia seeds Drabanemerosa hebecarpa Guan Gui goat's liver (must be used in the white goat's liver, thinly sliced and baked for the powder; or ... The leaves of the plant are also known as green, and this grass is mostly found in the land of Hu Ma, and ...