English name: Lophatherum gracile
Main effects: clearing away heat and purging fire, removing annoyance and quenching thirst, and inducing diuresis to relieve stranguria.
Chinese herbal medicine lophatherum gracile is a kind of heat-clearing medicine, which is the dry stem and leaf of Gramineae plant lophatherum gracile.
Lophatherum leaves are sweet, light and cold. Heart meridian, stomach meridian and small intestine meridian.
The origin of Lophatherum gracile is mainly produced in Zhejiang and Jiangsu.
This taste is sweet, light, cold and clear, enters the heart, small intestine and bladder meridian, and can clear the heart, relieve annoyance, and induce diuresis to relieve stranguria. Compared with bamboo leaves, it is only clear and has no dispersion; It also enters the bladder meridian, with strong diuretic and stranguria, and heat stranguria and astringent pain mostly enter the small intestine meridian. Treating heart fire, heat transferring to small intestine, should treat fever, polydipsia, hot shower, edema with heat, damp-heat jaundice.
This product mainly contains triterpenoids such as galangin and imperatorin, and steroids such as β-sitosterol, stigmasterol, rapeseed sterol and dandelion sterol. Has the effects of clearing away heat and purging fire, relieving vexation and thirst, and inducing diuresis to relieve stranguria. Used for fever, polydipsia, short, red and painful urine, and sores on the mouth and tongue.
Medicinal parts of lophatherum gracile. It is the dried stem and leaf of Lophatherum gracile. Cutting and drying before heading in summer.
Characteristics of medicinal parts of lophatherum gracile;
This product is 25 ~ 75cm long. The stem is cylindrical, jointed, with yellow-green surface and hollow. The leaf sheath is cracked. The leaves are needle-shaped, partially shriveled and curled, 5 ~ 20cm long and1~ 3.5cm wide. The surface is light green or yellowish green. Veins are parallel to transverse veinlets, forming a rectangular grid, especially on the lower surface. Light and flexible. A slight breath, a faint taste.
Light bamboo leaves are cold and clear, and are not suitable for people with spleen and stomach weakness and yin deficiency and fire.