Frog grass scientific name Lycoris radiata, aliases are many: snow see grass, wrinkled skin grass, toad grass, wild mustard, mange grass, frog grass, snow in the green, black perilla, earth thistle, monkey back grass, small live blood, hemp chicken woman, ditch Elsholtzia, swelling grass, winter grass, and so on, called by different names around the world.

Taste bitter, pungent, cool. Clearing heat and detoxification, diuretic and swelling, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.

For tonsillitis, tuberculosis hemoptysis, bronchitis, ascites swelling, nephritis edema, leakage, blood in the stool, thrombocytopenic purpura; external treatment of carbuncle, hemorrhoids swelling and pain, mastitis.

Expanded Information:

Toadstools, biennial herbs, 15-90 cm tall. stems square, much branched, obversely sparsely pilose. Rooted leaves clustered, stalked, leaf blade oblong or lanceolate, margin crenate, leaf surface wrinkled, face abundance of glandular dots, hairy on both sides; stem leaves opposite.

Verticillasters with 2-6 flowers in pseudo-racemes or panicles;

calyx campanulate, verticillasters with 2-6 flowers in pseudo-racemes or panicles;

externally covered with golden-yellow glandular dots and pilose, divided into 2 lips, the upper lip apically 3 mucronate, the lower lip 2-toothed; corolla labiate, lilac to bluish-purple, ca. 4- 5 mm, outside hairy. tube with a ring of hairs at base, upper lip oblong; apical part notched, lower lip 3-lobed, middle lobe broadly obcordate; stamens 2, connectives elongate, locules widely separated, upper locule developed, lower locule developed, lower locule rudimentary. Nutlets obovoid, brown, smooth, glandular punctate.

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