Scientific name Curculigo orchioides
Alias Ground Palm, Dokmao
Family Cynomolidae Cynomolidae
Territory of distribution in China's southern provinces and regions, as well as Taiwan, Japan and Southeast Asia are also distributed.
Growing conditions warm, moist environment. Hardy, drought-resistant. Requires loose, deep, well-drained soil.
Morphology
The height of the plant is 10-40cm. rhizome is straight and cylindrical. Leaves are basal, lanceolate. Scape hidden in leaf sheath, raceme corymbose, flower yellow.
Flowering April to June
Propagation
Propagation by sowing or cutting the rhizomes off. sowing in March to April. Rootstock propagation, spring will be cut into 3 ~ 4cm stem section directly planted.
Mao
The efficacy of lemongrass is introduced:
Lemongrass (Haiyao Materia Medica)
Synonyms of lemongrass root, lemongrass claw, Brahmin's ginseng (Kaibao Materia Medica), one-legged lemongrass, coiled dragon grass (Sheng Herbs and Medicinal properties of the preparation of the Yao), wind moss grass, cold rice grass (Qiming Materia Medica), small earth palm root (Cao Mu Bingfang), the earth brown root (Classification of Herbal Medicines of the nature of the classified herbs), centsongrass ginseng (Classification of Herbal Medicines of the nature of the classified herbs).
The source is the rhizome of Cynoglossum, family Staphylococcaceae.
Botanical form Xianmao perennial herb.
Rhizome prolonged, up to 30 centimeters long, terete, fleshy, outer skin brown; root stout, fleshy, aboveground stems are not obvious.
Leaves 3-6 rooted, narrowly lanceolate, 10-25 cm long, apex acuminate, carex decurrent into a stalk, then enlarged downward into a sheath, 4-10 cm long, greenish-white, with membranous margins; veins conspicuous, with a midvein; sparsely villous on both surfaces, later gradually smooth.
Flowers axillary; pedicel 1 to 2.5 cm long, hidden in leaf sheaths; flowers polygamous, upper male, lower bisexual; bracts lanceolate, green, membranous, villous; flowers about 1 box meter in diameter, perianth proximally elongated and tubular, ca. 2 cm or longer, distally 6-lobed, segments lanceolate, 8 to 12 mm long, yellow on the inner side, white on the outer side, villous; stamens 6, short filaments ; ovary narrow and long, villous.
Berry ellipsoid, slightly fleshy, ca. 1.2 cm, beaked at the apex, villous, seeds slightly globose, glossy black, beaked, surface undulate grooved.
Flowering occurs from June to August.
Wild in the plains of barren grassland sunny place, or mixed in the hillside thatch and manzanita bone bush.
Distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places.
Collected February to April before germination or July to September when the seedlings withered digging rhizome, wash, remove the roots and root head, sun dry.
Or steamed and dried.
The dried rhizome of the herb is cylindrical, slightly curved, flat at both ends, 3 to 10 centimeters long and 3 to 8 millimeters in diameter.
The surface is brown or dark brown, rough, wrinkled and uneven, with fine and discontinuous transverse lines, and scattered with less obvious tiny dot-like lenticels.
When the root is not removed, the root is often clustered at one end of the rhizome with two thin ends and a thick middle fibrous root, about 3-6 centimeters long, with a very dense ring of transverse stripes, light and loose, soft and not easy to break.
The rhizome is brittle, easy to break, the cross section is flat, slightly granular (slightly transparent and horny after steaming), the cortex is light gray-brown or reddish-brown due to pasteurization, and the color is darker near the center.
Slightly pungent aroma and slightly bitter-pungent flavor.
The ones with thick and long roots, firm and brittle texture, and black-brown surface are preferable.
Mainly produced in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, in addition, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places also produced.
Chemical composition contains 4% tannin, 1% fat, resin, starch and so on.
Concocting wine Xianmao: take the net Xianmao mixed with yellow wine, moistened through, placed in the pot slightly fried to dry, remove, dry.
(Each 100 pounds of lemongrass, with 10-20 pounds of yellow wine)
①"Lei Gong Gun Zhi Theory": Where to harvest (lemongrass), wash with water to make clean, scrape on the skin, in the acacia anvil with a copper knife to cut the beans about the big, but with the raw diluted cloth bag sheng, in the water in the beans soaked for a night, take out, with the wine mixed with the wet steam, from the Si to the Ohio, take out of the storm dry.
② "Sea Drugs Materia Medica": lemongrass, with a bamboo knife cut, glutinous rice slop immersion.
The only lemongrass is also known as 'lemongrass from the Sea Drugs Materia Medica.
The only lemongrass, also known as 'lemongrass from the Sea Drugs and Materia Medica', is from the 'Herbals and Materia Medica'. The leaf is green like thatched grass and soft, the complex is slightly broad, the face has the longitudinal reason, also like the palm, to the winter exhausts the wither, the beginning of the spring is born, the March has the flower, like the gardenia yellow, does not bear the fruit, its root alone stems and the straight, the evening has the short fine root attached, the flesh is yellowish-white, the outer skin is slightly coarse, the brown, the February, the August picks the root storms the dry use. Hengshan Mountain, the flowers are blue, and black seeds are born in May. Note: The renewal of the letter of the formula of the fairy lemongrass cloud, the main five labor seven injuries, bright eyes, beneficial to the tendons, Xuan and replenishment. Eight, September when picked, bamboo knife scraped black skin, cut like beans, rice slop soaked two overnight, dry, pounded and sifted, cooked honey pills such as a wu zi. Every day empty stomach wine drink, any make under twenty pills, forbidden to eat cow's milk and black beef, greatly reduce the power of the drug also.
Xianmao, perennial herbs. Rootstock nearly cylindrical straight, about 1cm in diameter, up to 30cm long, outer skin brown; fibrous roots often clustered, endoplasmic, with ring-like transverse lines, up to 6cm long; above ground stems are inconspicuous. Leaves basal; leaf blade linear, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, 10-45cm long, 5-25mm wide, apex long acuminate, base decurrent into a stalk, veins conspicuous, both surfaces scattered sparsely pilose or glabrous. Flowering stem very short, 67-cm long, mostly hidden within the base of the sheathing petiole, also hairy; bracts lanceolate, 2.5-5 cm long, membranous, ciliate; racemes more or less corymbose, usually with 4-6 flowers; flowers yellow, ca. 1 cm in diameter, the lower floral tube linear, the upper 6-lobed, the lobes lanceolate, 8-12 mm long, 2.5-3 mm wide, the abaxial surface of the outer whorl sometimes scattered long pilose hairs; stamens 6, long, the lower floral tube linear, the upper 6-lobed, lobes lanceolate, 8-12 mm long, 2.5-3 mm wide, the back of the outer whorl sometimes scattered growths pilose; stamens 6, about 1/2 as long as perianth lobes, filaments 1.5-2.5mm long, anthers 2-4mm long; stigma 3-lobed, divided portion longer than style, ovary narrowly elongated, apex with a long rostrum, even rostrum up to 7.5mm long, sparsely hairy. Berry nearly fusiform, 1.2-1.5cm long, about 6mm wide, apex with a long beak. Seeds bright black, surface with longitudinal convex lines, beaked. Flowering and fruiting period April-September.
Odor (Root) Pungent, warm, poisonous.
Address Impotence and coldness of essence, coldness of waist and knees, impotence and paralysis of muscles and bones. There is "Xianmao Pill" in the ancient formula, which can strengthen the muscles and bones, benefit the spirit, brighten the eyes, and darken the beard and hair. The formula and method of service is as follows:
Two pounds of lemongrass, into the Amoy glutinous rice water soaked for five days, remove the scraping file, dry. Another two pounds of Cangzhu, into the amoy rice water immersed in five days, remove the scraping skin, roasted. Take such a system of Xianmao, atractylodes macrocephala one catty, and Chinese wolfberry one catty, twelve two, white poria (peeled), fennel (fried), cedar (shelled) eight two, raw rhizome (baked), cooked rhizome (baked four two) together with the research fine, add wine to make a paste made of pills, such as a wu zi big. Each serving of fifty pills, before meals, warm wine sent down. The second time a day.