Ghost needle grass for the annual herb of the Asteraceae family ghost needle grass with flowers of the whole grass. Stem erect, lower slightly lilac, 4-angled, glabrous, or slightly fine hairs on the upper branches; lower and middle leaves opposite, 2-pinnate-parted, lobes pinnate or ovate-lanceolate, apex pointed or acuminate, margins crenulate or obtuse teeth, long-petiolate, upper leaves alternate, smaller, pinnatifid; capitula, involucral bracts cupular, bracts linear-lanceolate, receptacle segments elliptic, flowers heterogamous, marginal ligule flowers, yellow Achenes long linear, apically hairy-aristate. Fl. 8--Sep. Born on roadsides, in the wilderness or beside houses, distributed in most parts of the country. In the summer and fall to collect the whole grass with flowers, cut and dried.
The efficacy of the ghost needle grass
Ghost needle grass for the Chinese folk medicine, warm, bitter taste, non-toxic, the whole grass can be used as medicine, has a heat, detoxification, dissipate blood stasis, swelling and other efficacy, folk often use it to treat enteritis, dysentery and other diseases. In recent years, it is found that the drug has a good biphasic regulation of blood pressure, hypertensive patients served with this drug can make the blood pressure lower, low blood pressure can be used to make the blood pressure rise to normal, the clinic is more used as antihypertensive. With the ghost needle grass lowering blood pressure is not only safe and reliable, but also can avoid the side effects of some antihypertensive drugs sexual dysfunction.
Sexual flavor taste sweet, light, bitter, slightly cold.
Attributed to the liver, lung, large intestine meridian.
Effects Clearing heat and removing toxins, dispersing blood stasis and eliminating swelling, used for appendicitis, nephritis, cholecystitis, enteritis, bacillary dysentery, hepatitis, peritonitis, upper respiratory tract infections, tonsillitis, laryngitis, amenorrhea, scalded, venomous snakebite, bruises, skin infections, pediatric convulsions, chancre and other conditions.
Contraindications Pregnant women are contraindicated.
Effects
Anti-inflammatory effect: the polyacetylene compounds in the ghost needle grass can significantly inhibit croton oil-induced swelling of the mouse auricle and egg-white foot swelling, reduce the weight of rat cotton ball granuloma, but also significantly inhibit capillary permeability and acetic acid inflammation of leukocytes in rats to travel. Flavonoid crystals in Ghost Needle also have a good anti-inflammatory effect.
Sedation and analgesia: Intraperitoneal injection of small-flowered ghost needle grass can significantly prolong the sleep time of sodium pentobarbital in mice, significantly reduce the number of voluntary activities, and synergize with chlorpromazine, and have antagonistic effects with amphetamine. Twisted body method and hot plate method experiments show that there is a certain analgesic effect.
Digestive system: Ghost needle grass subcutaneous injection can significantly reduce the amount of gastric juice secretion in rats, reduce gastric juice pH, free acid concentration, inhibit the mouse intestinal propulsion to the end of the charcoal, the experimental gastric ulcers in rats have a protective effect, and reduce the ` incidence of stress ulcers in mice.
Anti-cancer effect: a variety of extracts of ghost needle grass on the in vitro culture of HL60, V937 leukemia cells have different degrees of inhibition, of which the polyacetylene analogues have the best effect.
Lipid-lowering and antithrombotic: Gastric gavage of mixed aqueous extracts of Gossypium and Gossypium floribundum can significantly reduce the blood lipids of male rats Ch and ? lipoproteins, and intravenous injection to rats can significantly inhibit experimental arterial thrombosis.
Medicinal Recipes
Treatment of malaria: Fresh ghost brazier grass eight to twelve taels. Decoction of soup, add an egg boiled soup to take.
Treatment of dysentery: a handful of ghost brachiaria soft buds. Water decoction soup, white dysentery with brown sugar, red dysentery with white sugar, served three times.
Treatment of jaundice: the ghost needle grass, quassia leaves, five dollars each, green pine needles one or two. Decoction.
Treatment of hepatitis: ghost needle grass, yellow cotton each one or two five money to two. Add 1000 milliliters of water and decoct to 500 milliliters. Take it several times a day until it is finished.
Treatment of acute nephritis: ghost needle grass leaves five money (cut fine), decoction, and an egg, add the right amount of sesame oil or tea oil cooked food, once a day.
The treatment of migraine: one or two of the ghost needle grass, three jujube. Water decoction warm service.
Treatment of gastric gas pain: fresh ghost needle grass one or two five money. And pork four two stew, mix a little wine, before meals.
Treatment of bleeding in urine and feces: Fresh ghost needle grass leaves five money to one or two. Decoction of soup.
Treatment of bruises: Fresh ghost needle grass grass one to two two (dry half). Water decoction, add another one or two yellow wine, warm service, once a day, usually served three times.
Treatment of weakness in the limbs: the grass ~ to take off the power. Decoction of soup.
Treatment of snakebites, insect bites: fresh ghost needle grass two, discretionary water, decoction into half a bowl, warm service, slag mashed coated with wounds, day as law twice.
Treatment of gas gangrene: fresh ghost needle grass, wash with cold boiled water, decoction soup fumigation.
Metallurgical sores bleeding: Fresh ghost needle grass leaves, pounded on the wound.
For colds and fever, sore throat, clearing heat and detoxification, intestinal carbuncle and poisonous snake bites. Ghost needle grass one or two, decoction. Or with dandelion, tendon grass, etc. with the application of acute simple appendicitis. Ghost needle grass one or two, decoction. Or apply with half lotus. Treatment of venomous snake bite, fresh ghost needle grass two taels, decoction. Another handful of fresh leaves, washed, mashed dressing replacement.
Treatment of injurious lumbago: This product has the effect of blood circulation and dissipation of blood stasis, treatment of injurious lumbago, the available fresh grass two two to three two (one or two of the dried grass), plus jujubes, brown sugar, yellow wine in appropriate quantities, stewed juice service.
Treatment of concussion: can be used with blood-activating drugs such as angelica, rhizoma ligustici, danshen, etc.
Hazardous prevention and control of the ghost needle grassThe main hazards
and farm animals compete for water, nutrients and light
The weed has a well-developed root system, the absorption of soil moisture and nutrients is very strong, and the growth advantage of the strong, water consumption, fertilizer consumption is often more than the consumption of the growth of the crop. Strong growth advantage of weeds, plant height is often higher than the crop, affecting the crop on the use of light energy and light cooperation, interference and restriction of crop growth.
Weeds are intermediate hosts for crop diseases and pests
Many weeds are annual or perennial plants, and pathogens and pests parasitize on weeds or roots all year round or over winter, and then migrate to the crop in the spring of the following year to do harm.
Reduce crop yield and quality
Due to the direct and indirect (pest and disease transmission) damage caused by weeds, crop yield and quality will be significantly affected.
Impact on human and animal health
Such as wheat field weeds poisonous wheat and seeds, containing poisonous wheat alkaloids, mixed into wheat grains, can cause poisoning of humans and livestock; araucaria seeds also contain poisonous substances, accidental ingestion of a large number of, will cause poisoning of humans and livestock.
Increase management labor and production costs
More weed farmland, the amount of labor consumed by its weed control, and at the same time, due to a large number of labor, increased production costs.
Control measures
Reasonable crop rotation
This is an important agricultural measure to change the ecological environment of weeds to inhibit and reduce weed damage.
Physical weed control
The most commonly used is the use of mulch, raising the temperature of the mulch and the soil surface, scalded weed seedlings, or inhibit the growth of weeds.
Soil tillage
The use of plows, harrows, tillers and other farm equipment, plowing at different times and seasons, weeds have a killing effect.
Artificial weeding
Adaptable to a wide range, the spread of many ways, so the apple orchard around the orchard and the orchard should be timely plowing 2-3 times, to eliminate the weeds in the seedling stage.
Pharmaceutical prevention and control