First, the efficacy and role of grass are mainly reflected in the following aspects.
1, medicinal value
(1) Roots are used as medicine, eaten raw, promoting blood circulation and dredging channels.
(2) Treating postpartum abdominal pain, irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, nosebleed, toothache due to asthenic fire, and beriberi edema.
(3) cooked, nourishing liver and kidney, strengthening waist and knees; Treat soreness of waist and knees, deficiency of liver and kidney, and traumatic blood stasis.
(4) Efficacy:
Removing blood stasis and dredging channels, nourishing liver and kidney, strengthening bones and muscles, inducing diuresis and stranguria, and inducing blood to descend.
(5) indications:
Used for amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, soreness of waist and knees, weakness of muscles and bones, stranguria, edema, headache, dizziness, toothache, day sore, hematemesis and epistaxis.
2. Related compatibility
(1) Children are late:
If you can't walk at the age of three, you can walk with this. Five dollars for acanthopanax bark, two and a half dollars for Achyranthes bidentata and papaya. It's five cents each, and the meal is mixed with wine at two or three o'clock.
(2) No afterbirth:
One cup of sunflower seeds, one or two cups of Achyranthes bidentata, two liters of water and one liter of decoction.
(3) The pregnant woman has fetal movement, the mother wants to die, and the child is still there.
Half mercury and half cinnabar. Grinding paste Half a Achyranthes bidentata and five cups of water. Decoct the juice, add honey and take half a spoonful.
Second, the morphological characteristics of grass.
1, perennial herb, 70-120cm high; The root is cylindrical, with a diameter of 5- 10 mm and khaki;
2. Stems are angular or square, green or purplish, white, attached or pilose, or nearly hairless, with opposite branches;
3. Leaves are elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, a few are oblanceolate, 4.5- 12 cm long and 2-7.5 cm wide, with a tail tip at the top, the tip is 5- 10 mm long, the base is wedge-shaped or wide, and there are attached or developed hairs on both sides;
4. Petiole is 5-30mm long and pilose. Spike terminal axillary, 3-5 cm long, reflexed after flowering; Total pedicel length 1-2 cm, white pilose.
Extended data:
Cattail grass is born in hillside forest, with an altitude of 200-1750m. Subordinate category:
1, Achyranthes bidentata (original variety)
Achyranthes bidentata, Suppl. icon. Formos.3: 23.F.9.1927, similar to Achyranthes bidentata, but its leaves are smaller, lanceolate, with a few ovals, 3-5.5cm long and1.5-2cm wide. The shape and size of Achyranthes bidentata leaves vary greatly, and this species can be regarded as a synonym for Achyranthes bidentata.
2. Achyranthes bidentata (new variety)
The roots are reddish to red, the leaves are purple to purple, and the inflorescence is purple. Sichuan, wild slopes or cultivated.
3. Achyranthes bidentata (variety)
Thin roots; The whole plant has less hair than Achyranthes bidentata; Spikes are longer and flowers are sparsely arranged; Bracteoles have shorter spines than perianth segments; Tepals have 3 veins; Staminodes are truncated at the top, with irregular teeth or inconspicuous 2-lobed. Anhui, Zhejiang and Hunan provinces. Born in the shade of a forest. Issued in Japan.
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