Also known as maitake, inchworm, leek leaf maitake, along the steps of grass, wild maitake, wild leek.

Morphological features perennial evergreen herb, 15-40 cm high. Underground with slender creeping branches. The fibrous root tip or part of it expands into a fleshy tuberous root. Leaves mostly tufted, narrow linear, 15-40 cm long, 0.1-0.4 cm wide. Flowering stems emerge from among the leaf clusters, bearing numerous lavender flowers distally. Berries spherical, blue-black. Summer, cut the tuberous roots with whiskers, wash and dry 3 to 4 days, pile 1 to 2 days (covered with straw bales or sacks), and then sun, repeated several times, sun to dry, remove the whiskers.

Growing environment in most parts of the country have distribution. Born in the valleys, streams and ravines or woods, also cultivated in the courtyard.

Effective flavor taste sweet, slightly bitter, slightly cold in nature. Nourishing Yin and moistening the lungs, nourishing the stomach and promoting the production of fluids, clearing the mind and removing vexation, moistening the intestines and relaxing the bowels.

Selected first formula: Maitake 2 one catty (fresh, remove the heart).

Usage: take the medicine, pounded and boiled, twisted juice, add a catty of honey, put the pot (no iron pot) to heavy soup cooking, stirring constantly, to be liquid thick as syrup, held in a porcelain standby. Take 1 spoonful each time with warm wine, 2 times a day.

Treatment: Yin deficiency in the vegetative body. Second formula: 20 grams of maitong, 15 grams of silver flowers, 10 grams of diyu.

Use: Make water in a thermos cup and drink as tea.

Treatment: chronic superficial gastritis. Third party: 45 grams of maitong.

Use: Take the above medicine, add water and decoct 2 to 3 times, combine the decoction and concentrate it into 30 to 45 milliliters. Take it in 3 times, 1 dose daily for 3 to 18 months.

Treatment: angina pectoris of coronary heart disease. Fourth formula: 20 grams of maitake, 15 grams of sunflower pollen, 10 grams of Pueraria lobata.

Use: water decoction, 1 dose daily.

Treatment: diabetes (upper elimination). Fifth formula: 15 grams of maitake, 15 grams of mulberry, 20 grams of shouwu, 30 grams of black sesame (crushed).

Use: Decoction with water.

Treatment: weakness, dry stools. Sixth formula: Fresh Maimendong whole grass 50 grams.

Use: take the above medicine, chopped, decoction. Drinking tea, 1 dose per day for 3 months.

Treatment: diabetes. Seventh formula: 15 grams of maitong, 30 grams of floating wheat, 20 grams of astragalus, 12 grams of black bean clothes, 30 grams of ground bone skin.

Use: water decoction, divided into 2 times.

Treatment: spontaneous sweating, night sweating. Formula 8: Maitong 50g.

Use: Take the above medicine, grind it into fine powder and bottle it. Treatment with saline to wash the affected area, and then take the appropriate amount of maitong with vinegar paste, uniformly applied to the affected area, every 5 hours to change the medicine 1 time, 3 times for a course of treatment. Avoid spicy food during the treatment and suspend breastfeeding.

Main treatment: cracked nipples.