Alias:Cowhide jelly, Chicken yat vine, Red bone snake, Stinking fishy vine, Chicken scented vine;

Family: Rubiaceae, Chicken yat vine genus.

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Chicken Vine, herbaceous plant growing in warm climate, humid bushes, strong vitality. It is widely distributed in the provinces and regions south of the southern slope of the Qinling Mountains and Taiwan.

Mouse's Ear

Introduction

Herba Gnaphaii Affinis

(English) Cudweed Herb

Alias Buddha's Ear Grass, Bone Chasing Wind, Fluffy Grass. Mouse Ear, Heartless Grass, Mouse Ear Grass, Citronella, Overstocked Wine Grass, Yellow Flowering White Wormwood, Buddha Ear Grass, Fuzzy Motherwort, Yellow Artemisia, Mistletoe, Hairy Ears, Water Chrysanthemum, Mianxu Head Grass, Golden Boiling Grass, Ground Lotus, Yellow Flowering Ziziphi Grass, Water Ant Grass, Ching Ming Fragrance, Bone-chasing Breeze, Ching Ming Vegetable, Cotton Cabbage, Spinach Spinach, Cotton Callus Head, Wide and Tight Grass, Ching Ming Artemisia, One Side of the Green, Mouse Dense Ailanthus, Water Artemisia, Target Vegetable, White Head Grass, Water Quartering, Velvet Grass, Silk Cotton Grass, Sheep's Ear Grass Cat's Ear Grass, Kid's Grass, Cat's Foot Herb, Flower Buddha Grass, Hairy Head Grass, Yellow Flower Fruit, Glutinous Rice Green, Cotton Vegetable, Yellow Flower Curculio, White Mangrove Grass, Field Ailanthus, Woolly Felt Grass

Origin Whole grass of Gnaphalium affine D.Don, family Asteraceae.

Plant Form A biennial herb, the main with 10-15cm, the whole plant is densely covered with white woolly hair. Stem erect, usually basally branched, cespitose forest. Leaves alternate, basal leaves fall after flowering, lower and middle leaves spatulate or oblanceolate, 2-6 long, 4-12mm wide, base attenuate, decurrent, both sides with white woolly hairs. Heads numerous, arranged in corymbs; involucres globose-campanulate, involucral bracts 3-layered, golden yellow, scarious; flowers yellow, marginal female corolla filiform, central bisexual flower tubular. Achenes long ellipsoid, papillate, crown hairs yellow-white. Flowering April to July, fruiting August to September.

Born on mountain slopes, roadsides, and field margins. Mainly produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang.

Harvesting Harvested in spring and summer when the flowers bloom, remove impurities, and dry in the sun. methoxychalocone-4'β-D-glucopyranoside).

Taste Flat in nature, slightly sweet in flavor.

Functions Expectorant, cough, asthma, wind-dampness. It is used for cough, phlegm asthma, wind-dampness paralyzing pain.

Alias yellow-flowering yeast grass, Qingming vegetable, Tian Ai, Fo Er Cao, earth fungus Chen [Guangdong], wine curd velvet

SourceThe whole grass of Gnaphalium affine D. Don, family Asteraceae, is harvested in spring and summer, and washed and freshly prepared. Harvested in spring and summer, washed and used fresh or dried in the sun.

Taste and odor attribution sweet, flat.

Functions and Indications: Relieving cough and asthma, lowering blood pressure, dispelling wind-dampness. Used for cold and cough, bronchitis, asthma, hypertension, serotonin, rheumatism, lumbar and leg pain; external treatment of bruises, snake bites.

Use and dosage 0.5 to 1 tael; external use appropriate amount, freshly pounded on the affected area.

Excerpts from National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicine