Cow’s tongue can clear away heat and detoxify. It can treat appendicitis, dysentery, hemorrhoids, spermatorrhea, white turbidity, mastitis, sores, boils, poisons, decoction and burns. Beef tongue, the name of Chinese medicinal material. This product is the whole plant of Asteraceae plant Sophora stolonifera. Take it between March and April. Use fresh or dried.

Compilation of Commonly Used Folk Herbal Medicines: Treat white turbidity, spermatorrhea, and hemorrhoids. "Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine": detoxification and heat removal. Treat decoction, fire injury and nameless poison. ③Guangzhou Air Force's "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines": Treats appendicitis, dysentery, mastitis, and boils.

Shape of cow tongue:

Perennial herb with latex and stolons. The above-ground stems are upright, 30 to 80 cm high. The leaves are alternate, oblong-lanceolate, 10 to 20 meters long, 2 to 5 centimeters wide, with an obtuse apex, sparse notches or triangular lobes, small canines on the edges, and a base that tapers into a stalk; stem The leaves are sessile, and the base forms an auricle-shaped clasping stem.

The inflorescence is terminal, arranged in a corymb or cone shape, 2 to 4 cm in diameter. The peduncle and involucre are both equipped with glandular hairs; the involucre is bell-shaped, with several bracts, the innermost The outer bracts are long and thin, with membranous edges, lanceolate, blunt apex, and the outermost bract is short.

The flowers are yellow, all tongue-shaped; there are 5 stamens, connected at the base of the anthers, and the tail end is tapered; the pistil is composed of 2 carpels, the ovary is inferior, the style is slender, and the stigma is 2-lobed. The achene is oblong, with a narrow edge, several vertical lines, and is slightly rough; the pappus is white and soft. The flowering period is from late autumn to early summer.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Beef Tongue