Also known as striga, mountain palm, ground palm, thousand-year palm, and curculigo ginseng.

Morphological characteristics of perennial herbs. Height 10~40cm. The rhizome is long, up to 30 cm, cylindrical, fleshy, with brown outer skin; the root is thick and fleshy. The leaves are basal, with 3 to 6 leaves, narrowly lanceolate, 10 to 25 cm long, with the base extending downward into a stalk and expanding downward into a sheath shape with scattered long hairs. The flower stem is very short and hidden in the leaf sheath. The lower part of the perianth is slender and tubular, and the upper part is 6-lobed and yellow-white. The capsule is oval and the seeds are spherical. Collect the rhizomes in early spring or autumn, remove the fibrous roots, and dry them in the sun or oven. Then mix with rice wine (50 ml of rice wine for each kilogram of medicine), moisten it thoroughly and fry until it is slightly dry, take it out and dry it.

The growing environment is distributed in Central South, East China, Southwest and other places. Mostly found on hillsides, grass or bushes.

Nature, flavor, and efficacy: It is pungent, sweet, warm in nature, and slightly toxic. Tonify the kidneys and strengthen yang, dispel cold and remove paralysis.

The first prescription is selected: Curculigo 10g, Golden Cherry 30g, Eclipta 15g, Morinda 10g.

Usage: decoct in water and take.

Indications: Kidney deficiency and low back pain. Second party: 30 grams of curculigo.

Usage: Grind into powder, 3 grams each time, mix with wine and drink.

Indications: low back pain, cold numbness of lower limbs. Third party: 6 grams of curculigo, 30 grams of golden cherry, 15 grams of mulberry, and 15 grams of wolfberry.

Usage: Decoction in water, 1 dose per day.

Indications: The elderly cannot help urinating. The fourth recipe: 6 grams of curculigo, 15 grams of epimedium, 15 grams of wolfberry, and 30 grams of dodder.

Usage: Decoction in water, 1 dose per day. Take once a day for 10 days.

Indications: impotence. The fifth recipe: 10 grams of curculigo, half a catty of pig lungs.

Usage: Chop the pig lungs into small pieces and steam them with curculigo.

Indications: Postpartum cough. The sixth recipe: 10 grams of curculigo, 6 grams of lotus seed heart.

Usage: Decoction in water, 1 dose per day.

Indications: Huajing and white turbidity. The seventh recipe: 10 grams of curculigo, 30 grams of barley, 15 grams of papaya, 15 grams of cinnamon twig, and 15 grams of angelica.

Usage: Add the medicine to the decoction and eat with eggs.

Indications: rheumatoid arthritis, cold compress on the affected area. The eighth recipe: 10 grams of curculigo, 2 eggs.

Usage: *** Boil and take.

Indications: Wind-cold toothache.