Efficacy and function of Eclipta prostrata
1. Eclipta prostrata is the whole grass of compositae. There are many aliases for Eclipta prostrata. Eclipta prostrata has many functions and functions. Eclipta prostrata can nourish liver and kidney, which has a good effect of blackening hair and is also good for teeth. Eclipta prostrata also has a good effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Eclipta prostrata can be used to treat liver and kidney deficiency, and it can also be used for people with poor eyesight.
2. Eclipta prostrata is a tonic medicine. Chinese medicine considers Eclipta prostrata as a kind of Chinese herbal medicine with sweet taste, sour taste and cool nature. You can eat Eclipta prostrata now if you have diarrhea, hemoptysis, hematemesis, epistaxis or hematuria, bloody dysentery, metrorrhagia and traumatic bleeding. Usage and dosage of Eclipta prostrata: it can be used for external use. Eclipta prostrata can be used for external use by tamping, grinding, sprinkling or tamping. When Eclipta prostrata is collected, it can be washed, cut into sections and dried in the sun.
Identification of Eclipta prostrata
1. Take this product, soak it in water, and rub its stems and leaves to show dark green.
2. Surface view of the leaf: The non-glandular hairs are mostly 3 cells, with a length of 260 ~ 700? M, the basal cells are slightly enlarged, the middle cells are longer, the wall is thickened, there are obvious verrucous processes, and the top cells are acute and short, nearly triangular. Stomatal infinitive, 3 ~ 4 accessory guard cells.
3. Take this product powder 1g, add 20ml of ethanol, soak for 2 hours, perform ultrasonic treatment for 30 minutes, filter, evaporate the filtrate, and add anhydrous ethanol 1ml to the residue to make it dissolve, which is used as the test solution. Another reference medicinal material 1g was taken from Eclipta prostrata, and the reference medicinal material solution was prepared by the same method. According to the thin layer chromatography (Appendix ⅵ b) test, absorb 4? L, respectively, on the same silica gel G thin-layer plate, using n-hexane-ethyl acetate (9: 1) as developing agent, developing, taking out, air drying, and viewing under ultraviolet lamp (365nm). In the chromatogram of the test sample, the same fluorescent spots appear at the corresponding positions of the chromatogram of the control medicinal materials.
Eclipta and jujube soup:
Each time, use 50g of fresh Eclipta prostrata, 8 ~10 red dates, and two bowls of water, fry until one bowl, and remove the residue to drink soup.
Ink porridge:
1. Wash the black cabbage, scald it with boiling water, take it out and cut it into pieces; 2. Clean the japonica rice, soak it in cold water for half an hour, take it out and drain it; 3. Add cold water and japonica rice to the pot and boil it with high heat; 4. Change the fire to boil again, add the black cabbage when it is half cooked, and then continue to cook until the porridge is finished; 5. Add brown sugar and mix well, then serve.
Morphological characteristics of Eclipta prostrata
Annual herb. Stems erect, obliquely ascending or procumbent, up to 60 cm high, usually branched from the base, appressed scabrous. Leaves are oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, sessile or with extremely short stalks, 3- 10 cm long and 0.5-2.5 cm wide, with sharp or tapering tips, serrate edges or sometimes wavy edges, and both sides are densely rough.
The head is 6-8 mm in diameter and has a peduncle 2-4 cm long; The involucre is spherical and bell-shaped, the involucre is green and grassy, 5-6 are arranged in 2 layers, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, the outer layer is slightly shorter than the inner layer, and the back and edge are covered with short white hairs; The peripheral female flowers are 2-layered, tongue-shaped, 2-3 mm long, the tongue is short, the top end is 2-lobed or entire, there are many bisexual flowers in the center, the corolla is tubular, white, about 1.5 mm long, and the top end is 4-toothed; Style branches are dull and have papillae; Receptacle convex with lanceolate or linear stipules. There are micro hairs above the middle of the blade; Achene is dark brown, 2.8 mm long, the achene of female flowers is triangular, the achene of bisexual flowers is flat quadrangular, the top is truncated, with 1-3 fine teeth, the base is slightly reduced, the edge has white ribs, and the surface has small tubercles and no hair. Flowering from June to September.