Taste Pungent, flat.
Originally from the whole grass or root of water centipede, Salixaceae. Family: Cyperaceae, Water Centipede, Distribution: Grows at the water's edge, slightly beside the water, paddy fields and wetlands in the wilderness. It is distributed in most parts of the country, including Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi, Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Northeast China. Edit this section Synonyms Three pods of grass ("Lingnan Caiyao Record"), golden button (Guangzhou Botanical Records), golden button grass ("Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine"), nightmare grass ("Guangxi Medicinal Plants Atlas"), chilly grass ("Compendium of Commonly Used Folk Herbal Medicines"), cross grass ("Jiangxi Folk Herbal Medicine"), ginger wormwood, dew grass, water buffalo grass, three-step jumping (Guizhou Folk Drugs), dispersal of cold grass, ginger sprouting grass, chilly grass ( Sichuan Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicines"), Water Fragrant Herb, Yan Huanzhu ("Chongqing Herbal Medicine"), Hair Sweating Grass ("Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Medicinal Plants"), Mountain Centipede, Water Ophiopogon, Headless Fragrant Herb, Dragon Spitting Pearl ("Quanzhou Materia Medica"), Golden Cow Grass, Water Fragrant Herb ("Hunan Medicinal Herb Journal"), One Grain of Snow, Earth Chaihu, Triangle Grass, Landed Yangmei, Three Arrow Grass ("Eastern Fujian Materia Medica"), Ball-headed Grass, Top Stick Grass ("Guangzhou Army", "Manual of Commonly Used Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicines ), Lei Gong Cao, Ground Yangmei, Three People Carrying Pearls ("Jiangxi Herbal Medicine"), Cold and Hot Head Cao, Triangular Prismatic Grass, A Grain of Pearls, Nine Heads of Fragrance, Fine Bamboo Grass, Yangmei Grass, Bitter Fragrant Seeds, Water Bamboo Mantle ("Commonly Used Herbs in Zhejiang Folklore"), Triangular Prismatic Rings, A Particle of Grass, Yellow Gou Tou Grass ("Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicine in Shanghai"), Water Gold Hairpin ("Traditional Chinese Medicines of Shaanxi"), Water and Earth Scented Herbal (Traditional Chinese Herbs in Fujian), Steel Fists ("Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbs in Jiangxi"), Ku Ju Ju Cao ("Manual of Commonly Used Traditional Chinese Medicines"), Three Arrows Grass ("Eastern Min Materia Medica"), Steel Fist (Jiangxi Handbook of Herbal Medicine of Jiangxi Province), Kuju Wutuo (Tibetan name). Edit this paragraph Morphology Water Amusement Centipede, herbaceous perennial, tufted. Rootstock purplish, fibrous. Stem long, thin, bald, 10-50 cm tall, trigonous, aromatic. Leaves soft, narrowly linear, variable in length, 3-10 centimeters long, 1.5-3 millimeters wide, acuminate at the end, purplish proximally, sheathing. Heads, solitary, ovate, green, 4-8 mm long, densely packed; involucre 3, leafy, attached to the underside of the spike, 2-16 cm long, often outwardly spreading; spikelets very numerous, long elliptic, ca. 3 mm long, falling off the whole spike at maturity; glumes 4, navicular-ovate, ridges unwinged, spinulose, distichous, opposite to each other on the rachis, dorsally light green, apex pointed, the lower 2 with rudimentary flowers, the central 1 with rudimentary flowers, the upper 1 with rudimentary flowers, the upper 1 with rudimentary flowers, the upper 1 with rudimentary flowers, the upper 1 with rudimentary flowers. 2 with rudimentary flowers proximally, 1 with rudimentary flowers centrally, and stamens only at distal end; flowers perianthless, stamens 3, filaments slender and filiform, anthers ellipsoid; pistil 1, style slender, as long as filaments, stigma dichotomous. Achenes slightly compressed obovate, brown. Fl. summer. Fruiting in fall. It grows at the water's edge, slightly beside the water, in paddy fields and wetlands in the wilderness. It is distributed in most parts of the country. Edit This Section Functions Cure cold and wind-cold, cold and heat headache, musculoskeletal pain, cough, malaria, jaundice, dysentery, sores and swollen poisons, bruises and cuts.
①Tu Kao of Plant Names: "Killing insects, defeating poison."
②"Guangzhou Botanical Journal": "The main treatment is also white dysentery."
③ "Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine": "Antipyretic and diuretic. Treatment of malaria."
4 "Compendium of Commonly Used Folk Herbs": "Disperses wind, removes stale cold, and stops cough."
⑤ Guangxi Medicinal Plant Atlas: "Removing wind-heat, inducing diuresis, stopping bleeding, and relieving cough. Treats bruises and snakebites."
6 "Nanning City Drugs": "Removing blood stasis, reducing swelling, relieving pain, killing worms, soothing tendons and activating collaterals."
7 Sichuan Chinese Medicine Journal: "Treating cold and wind-cold, no sweat and headache, tendon and bone pain, chills and fever."
8 "Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine" Ⅱ: "Suppressing cough and expectorant, cure whooping cough, dry heat cough." Editorial Use Internal: decoction, fresh 1 ~ 2 two; or pounded juice. Externally: pounded and applied. Editor's Pick ① Treatment of fever in times of epidemic: water centipede and Weiling Xian, decocted in water. ("Lingnan medicine book")
② treatment of dysentery: fresh water centipede one or two to one or two and a half money, add water and rock sugar five money, stew for an hour. ("Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine")
③ Treatment of sores and swelling: water centipede grass, plantain root. Pound it and put it on the affected area. ("Hunan Drugs")
4) Treatment of bruises and injuries: water centipede one catty. Pound it and flush it with four taels of wine. Filter two taels of wine and take it internally, and apply the dregs to the painful area externally. ("Guangxi medicinal plant atlas")
5) Treatment of general snakebite: water centipede two taels. Pound it, flush it with two taels of wine, take one or two internally, and apply one or two to wipe around the wound. (Guangxi Medicinal Plant Atlas)
6) Itching of skin: water centipede is decocted and washed externally. (Guangzhou Army, Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicine)
⑦To treat whooping cough, bronchitis, sore throat: one or two to two dried centipedes. Decocted with water. (Guangzhou Army, "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbs")
⑧ malaria: water centipede one or two. Decocted in water, served 8 to 4 hours before malaria. ("Jiangxi Herbal Medicine")
9 treatment of stomatitis in children: water centipede rhizome one or two. Decocted with water and served with honey. ("Commonly Used Herbs of Zhejiang")
⑩Treatment of rheumatism and bone pain: water centipede one to two taels. Decoction. (Shanghai Commonly Used Chinese Herbs)
(11) Treating cuts and fractures: fresh water centipede is pounded into velvet, wrapped around the affected area, and the medicine is changed twice a day. (Guizhou Herbal Medicine)
(12) Jaundiced infectious hepatitis: fresh whole herb of water centipede is one to two taels. Decocted with water. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)
(13) Treatment of gas stagnation and abdominal pain: one to two taels of fresh whole herb of water centipede. Take it with water. ("Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine") Editorial Applications ①Treatment of malaria: take 2~3 taels of the whole herb of water centipede with the root (sun-dried to half dry) and decoct it in water for 3~4 hours. Take it at once 2 hours or 1 day before the attack of malaria, and take it for 3 days in a row. *** treatment of 48 cases, of which 21 cases with 2 two, before serving blood test to find malaria parasites, after serving symptoms disappeared, thick blood film did not find malaria parasites in 15 cases; with 3 two of the 27 cases, 24 cases of effective. It is believed that the dose should not be less than 3 two, decoction time of not less than 3 hours, serving not less than 3 days. However, according to the experimental results made by the Institute of Parasitic Diseases of Jiangsu Branch of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences with mice, it is proved that the water centipede does not work well against Plasmodium berghei, and it can be initially confirmed that it is ineffective against Plasmodium berghei; at the same time, it is also observed that the concentrated decoction of water centipede root and the concentrated solution of refluxing ethanol are both with toxicity, so it is extremely necessary to do a toximetry test before using a large dosage of water centipede to carry out a clinical test.
②Treatment of Celiac Disease: Take 2 taels each of dried water centipede root and cinnamon, decocted in water, 1 dose per day, or as tea, for 15 days. Treatment of more than 100 cases, have a certain effect.
3 treatment of bacillary dysentery: take water centipede, white powder vine (i.e., one-horned sapium sebiferum) 1 two, water decoction in 2 times (severe cases can be 2 doses per day). Treatment of 70 cases, the average drug about 7 days, 54 cases cured, 14 cases of apparent effect, invalid 2 cases. The average time of fever reduction was 2.3 days, the average number of days for the normalization of stool frequency and character was about 5 days, and the average number of days for the conversion of stool culture to negative was 4.08 days. Its efficacy seems to be no inferior compared with the sulfaguanidine control group.
4 treatment of chronic bronchitis: take the ground Yangmei (water centipede) 1 catty, Xiangye tree (alias mountain cangshu) roots, leaves, each half a catty, add 1000 ml of water distillation, take the middle distillate 500 ml, 3 times a day, 20 ml each time, 10 days for a course of treatment. Treatment of 92 cases, 11 cases of recent control, 12 cases of significant effect, 41 cases of improvement, effective rate of 69.4%. This drug has a certain effect of suppressing cough, asthma, expectorant, the efficacy of most of the drug in 2 to 4 days after taking the drug appeared, side effects are slight. But the long-term efficacy is not good, easy to relapse after stopping the drug. There will increase the dose to 30 milliliters each time, to 20 days for a course of treatment, the treatment of 400 cases, the effective rate increased significantly.