Morphological characteristics of perennial herbs. The stems are slender, creeping on the ground, gray pubescent and rooting at nodes. Leaves alternate, round or kidney-shaped, apex obtuse or slightly concave, base heart-shaped, horseshoe-shaped, entire. Flowering from April to May is solitary in leaf axils, yellow and small in shape; Sepals 5, obovate, connate at base, pubescent outside; Corolla bell-shaped, lobes oblong-lanceolate; Stamens 5, inserted in the gap between corolla lobes, with short filaments; Ovary 2-loculed; Style 2, stigma capitate. From June to August, the capsule is nearly spherical, membranous and shorter than the persistent calyx. 1 ~ 2 seeds are hairy outside. It is best to harvest the whole grass in spring and summer, and use less or dry it for later use.
The growing environment is distributed in South China, Zhejiang, Shanxi, Yunnan and other provinces. Hillside forest edge, sparse forest, field edge or ditch edge in the shade.
Sexual taste is sweet, light and flat. Nourishing blood and clearing heat, diuresis and detumescence.
Choose the first recipe: 60 grams of horseshoe gold and 30 grams of coriander.
Usage: decoct with water, two doses a day.
Indications: urinary calculi. The second side: 30g of fresh horseshoe, 20g of plantain and 30g of folium Isatidis.
Usage: decoction, daily 1 dose.
Indications: jaundice hepatitis. Third party: fresh horseshoe gold 60g, rock sugar15g.
Usage: stew with water.
Indications: hematuria. The fourth party: 30 grams of fresh horseshoe gold and 30 grams of red dates.
Usage: decoct in water, drink soup and eat dates.
Indications: blood deficiency and fatigue. The fifth prescription: 30 grams of fresh horseshoe gold and 0.2 grams of borneol.
Usage: Mix the mashed medicine with Borneolum Syntheticum, wrap it with a thin cloth, and apply it to the eyes for about 10 hour, once a day.
Indications: Wind-fire eye pain. Sixth party: 150g fresh horseshoe gold, 100g motherwort, 300ml rice wine. Usage: soak chopped horseshoe gold in wine for 3 days, take 60 ml every day, and take it twice or three times.
Indications: Irregular menstruation. The seventh prescription: 30g of horseshoe gold, 0/0g of gentian/kloc-,and 0/5g of plantain/kloc-.
Usage: decoct in water.
Indications: Acute cholecystitis. Eighth party: 30 grams of horseshoe gold, plantain 10 grams, and 30 grams of roadside green.
Usage: decoct in water.
Indications: nephritis. The ninth prescription: 30 grams of fresh horseshoe gold, 20 grams of fresh Eucommia leaves, and 0/5 grams of fresh Hypericum japonicum/KLOC-.
Usage: Mash the wound.
Indications: Traumatic bleeding.