Save grass, alias: civil thief, lock eyebrow grass, pen container, soil ephedra, grass ephedra, wood grass and so on. , belonging to Equisetum of Equisetaceae. You can harvest grass-saving whole grass all year round. Small and medium-sized plants of Celastrus. Perennial with slender roots, deep underground and dark brown. The stem is thin green, with many branches at the base, few or no branches at the upper part, rough and angular, leaves are scaly and whorled, and the base is combined into a sheath. Sporangium is rectangular with small top; Spore leaves are 6-angled, and the center is concave. Reproduction by rhizomes or spores. Rhizomes germinate in early March and produce sporangium spikes in April-April. When they mature, they spread out and germinate, becoming weeds in autumn. Widely distributed in all parts of China, like water, farmland weeds and Chinese herbal medicines. Nature and taste: sweet, slightly bitter and flat. The following is a picture of grass saving.
Ephedra is a herbaceous shrub of Jute in Ephedraceae, with a height of 20-40 cm. Alias ephedra and ephedra sinica. Produced in Liaoning, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, northwestern Henan and Shaanxi provinces. Strong adaptability. Casuarina equisetifolia is a third-class protected wild plant in Jilin Province, and the state prohibits the collection of wild resources. Casuarina equisetifolia is an important medicinal plant, which is rich in alkaloids and is the main plant for extracting ephedrine in China.
Herbaceous shrubs, 20-40 cm high; Woody stems is short or prostrate, with straight or slightly curved branchlets, and thin longitudinal grooves on the surface are often not obvious. Internodes are 2.5-5.5 cm long, mostly 3-4 cm, about 2 mm in diameter, leaves are 2-lobed, and leaf sheaths account for 1/3-2/3 of the total length. Lobes are obviously triangular with sharp tips. Male cones are mostly panicle-shaped, often with peduncles, usually 4 pairs of bracts, 7-8 stamens, filaments combined, and sparse tips slightly separated; The female cone is solitary, and it is born on the young branch and axillary on the old branch. There are often stems at the base in the mature stage, so the female cone is born on the lateral branch, oval or oblong, with 4 pairs of bracts, and the lower 3 pairs of syncytium account for 1/4- 1/3, and the last pair of syncytium reaches1. Female flower 2, the integument tube length of ovule is 1mm or slightly longer, the top is upright or slightly curved, and the gap at the nozzle is narrow and long, accounting for about 1/4- 1/2 of the total length. The edge of the gap is irregular, and a few hairs are often rolled up. When the female cone is mature, the flesh is red, oblong, ovoid or nearly spherical, about 8 mm long and 6-7 mm in diameter; Seeds are usually 2, wrapped by bracts, not exposed or equal to bracts, dark red or grayish brown, triangular ovoid or wide ovoid, 5-6 mm long, 2.5-3.5 mm in diameter, with fine wrinkles on the surface and obvious hilum in a semicircle. The flowering period is from May to June, and the seeds mature from August to September. Below is a picture of ephedra.