The vernacular called beggar's bowl, the herb with a bowl missing a mouth. The name of the medicine is called snowgrass. Alias also known as: eighteen lack, crash bowl, horseshoe grass, Lei Gong root, ark shell grass, copper money grass, fell to play and so on. Born in shady and wet wasteland, village side, roadside, ditch side. Stem ambulatory, rooting at the nodes. Leaves alternate, petiole long; leaf blade orbicular or reniform, 2-4 centimeters in diameter.

Flowering in summer; umbels capitate, 2-3 in leaf axils, with 3-6 sessile florets on each inflorescence; flowers reddish purple. Fruit small, oblate.

These properties are bitter, pungent and cold. Attributed to the liver, spleen and kidney meridians.?

Functions and IndicationsClearing heat and inducing dampness, detoxifying and subduing swelling. Used for damp-heat jaundice, heatstroke and diarrhea, sand drenching and blood drenching, carbuncle, swelling and sores, bruises and injuries.

It is a kind of family standing green herb.