Effects and functions of Bamboo Leaf Grass: clearing the lungs and relieving cough; cooling the blood and stopping bleeding; detoxification and pharyngeal benefit. The flavor is sweet, light, flat, non-toxic.

It is used in treating lung-heat cough; hemoptysis; hematemesis; epistaxis; hematemesis; sore throat; eye redness and cataract; carbuncle and sores. Dosage: 1~5 qian. It is used in folk medicine as herbal medicine and has the effect of clearing heat and inducing dampness.

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Bamboo leaf clover culms are slender, the base lying flat on the ground, the nodes rooting on the ground, the ascending part is 20-80 cm tall. Leaf sheaths shorter than or upper ones longer than internodes, subglabrous or sparsely hairy; leaf blades lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, basally ± encapsulated and asymmetric, 3-8 cm long, 5-20 mm wide, subglabrous or margins sparsely ciliate, transverse veined.

The panicle is 5-15 cm long, the main axis glabrous or sparsely hairy; branches alternate and sparsely so, 2-6 cm long; spikelets twinned (sometimes one of the spikelets is reduced) sparsely distal ones solitary, ca. 3 mm long; the glumes herbaceous, subequal, ca. 1/2-2/3 as long as the spikelet, the margins often ciliate, the awn of the apex of the first glume 0.7-2 cm long; the awn of the apical part of the second glume 1-2 mm long.

First floret neuter, lemma leathery, as long as spikelet, apex awn-tipped, 7-9-veined, palea membranous, narrow or absent; second lemma leathery, smooth, shiny, ca. 2.5 mm, margins involute, enclosing homogeneous palea; scales 2, thinly membranous, folded; style bases separate.

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