Liangfencao

("Compendium Supplements")

Synonyms are jelly grass ("Compendium Supplements"), fairy jelly ("Compendium Supplements"), Xiancao ("Illustrated Book of Chinese Medicinal Plants").

The source is the whole plant of Lamiaceae plant, Ligusticum lucidum.

Plant form of Limegrass

Annual herb. The lower part of the stem lies on the ground, the upper part is upright, about 15 to 50 cm long, and the branches are sparse and hairy. The leaves are ovate or ovate-oblong, 2 to 4 cm long, with a slightly blunt apex, and the base gradually shrinks into a stalk, with small serrations on the edges and sparse long hairs on both sides; the leaves attached to the upper part of the inflorescence are smaller and in the form of bracts. Flaky, ovate to inverted triangle, shorter than the flower, often lavender at the base, and falls off during fruiting. The racemes are weak, 5 to 10 cm long; the flowers are small, whorled, and the stalk is about 3 mm long; the calyx is small, bell-shaped, 2-lipped, the upper lip is 3-lobed, and the lower lip is entire, or tube-shaped and downwardly curved during fruiting , with longitudinal veins and transverse wrinkles; corolla is light red, 2.5 mm long, upper lip is broad, entire or toothed, lower lip is oblong, sunken; stamens 4, filaments protruding; pistil 1, style 2-lobed; one side of the disk is enlarged. Small nut oval. Flowering period is late autumn.

Distributed in southern my country.

Collect the above-ground parts harvested in summer and dried in the sun. Or sun them until they are semi-dry, stack them and simmer them to ferment and turn them black, and then sun them until they are fully dry.

Dry the whole medicinal material and cut it into sections of about 20 cm. The stems are square, covered with long gray-brown hairs, with a tan or black appearance and grooves. Young stems are often twisted; they are brittle and easy to break, with a pith in the center. The leaves are opposite, mostly wrinkled, papery, slightly pliable, not easily broken, oblong or oval, with sparse long hairs on both sides. Flowers are uncommon. The gas is slight, the chewing taste is light and sweet, and has gummy properties.

Produced in Guangdong.

Nature and flavor ① "Ben Cao Qiu Yuan": "Astringent and sweet, cold."

② Guangzhou Army's "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicine": "Sweet and bland, cool."

Its main functions are to clear away heat, quench thirst, and remove heat toxins. Treat heat stroke, thirst, high blood pressure, muscle and joint pain.

① "Ben Cao Qiu Yuan": "It clears away heat and heat, relieves heat poison in Zangfu, and cures alcoholism."

② "Chinese Medicinal Plant Illustrated Book": "It cools and quenches thirst. Heat-heat agent. Decoction of the whole plant can treat diabetes. "

③ "Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine" II: "Treatment of damp-heat bone pain,"

④Guangzhou Army's "Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicine Handbook": "Clear heat and relieve summer heat. Treat heatstroke, colds, high blood pressure, muscle and joint pain."

Usage and dosage Oral administration: decoction, 1 to 2 taels; make a cold drink or soak in wine.

Choose a recipe to cure the poisonous flowers and willows: six ounces of immortal jelly, steamed several times, add eight raw sparrows, with hairs attached, soaked in four pounds of double cooking wine, soaked for twenty days. Take three ounces each time. ("Lingnan Medicine Collection") Remind you: Liangfencao This Chinese herbal medicine comes from the Internet, please follow the doctor's advice before use.