Distribution of origin: it is distributed in most parts of the country.

Chinese medicine name: Elsholtzia serrata.

Aliases: Mentha microphylla (Textual Research on Plant Names and Facts), Manpoxiang, Herba Schizonepetae (Guizhou Folk Medicine), Herba Artemisiae Scopariae, Vanilla (Jiangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine), Five Herbs, Herba Menthae, Summer Herbs, Jiegudan (Shaanxi Botanical Medicine Survey) and Herba Artemisiae Scopariae (Guangxi Medicinal Plant Directory).

source: Elsholtzia Ciliata (Thunb.) Hyland. [E. Patrini (Lepech.) garcke], a plant of Elsholtzia in Labiatae, is used as a whole herb. Cutting in summer and autumn when heading and flowering, removing impurities, drying in the sun or fresh using.

collection: before flowering in July and August, the aboveground parts are collected, dried or rarely used.

taste: Guizhou folk medicine: cool, pungent and nontoxic.

efficacy: relieving exterior syndrome, warming middle warmer, relieving exterior syndrome (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine), regulating qi and eliminating dampness. Sweating, relieving summer heat and diuresis.

indications: treating colds, fever, vomiting, fullness of chest and diaphragm, diarrhea, jaundice and infantile malnutrition. Summer cold, fever, no sweat, heatstroke, acute gastroenteritis, chest tightness, bad breath and bad urination.

① Guizhou folk medicine: removing damp-heat from skin, relieving exterior syndrome, relieving pain, treating cold and fever, and stopping vomiting.

② Guangxi Medicinal Plants List: Treating jaundice, malnutrition, infantile febrile diarrhea and edema.

③ Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine: promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, relieving pain and promoting granulation, dredging orifices and benefiting diaphragm, and regulating menstruation.

Treat traumatic injury, fracture, fullness of chest diaphragm, metrorrhagia and leucorrhea.

④ Guizhou Herbs: relieving exterior syndrome, regulating qi and promoting diuresis.

usage and dosage:

oral administration: decoction, 3 ~ 6 yuan. External use: decocting and washing.

note: people with superficial deficiency should not take it.

1. "materia medica from the beginning": those who show no evil will be warned.

2. match materia medica: fire is full of qi deficiency, and yin deficiency with heat is forbidden.

efficacy: relieving exterior-interior heat. (Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine)

Remarks: Elsholtzia calycocarpa Diels, a plant of the same genus, is distributed in Xinjiang, Tibet and other places. In Tibet, Elsholtzia is used as medicine with whole grass as soil.