(Fujian Folk Herbs)

Different names of Penny Grass (Lingnan Science Journal), Yellow Grass (Flora of Guangzhou), Phyllostachys pubescens, Catnip Grass, Oxtail Grass (Fujian Folk Herbs), Golden Silk Grass (Illustration of Main Plants in China Gramineae), Brush Grass, Monkey Grass, Eyebrow Grass, Golden Grass and Hu Mao Grass (Fujian)

The source is the whole grass of Gramineae plant Hypericum japonicum.

Plant morphology Hypericum japonicum

Perennial, clustered herbs, height10 ~ 80 cm. The culms are erect and slender. Leaf blade is flat, linear-lanceolate, 2 ~ 4 cm long,1~ 3 mm wide, the apex is tapering, and both sides and edges are somewhat hairy; The leaf sheath is bald and the scabbard mouth is hairy. The spike is solitary at the top of the main stem and branches, soft and slightly curved, with a length of1.5 ~ 3 cm; The rachis is slender, the internodes are very short, and the tips of the nodes are thick and truncated by eyelashes; Spikelets in pairs, one stalk, no stalk, less than 2 mm long; The hair of the base plate is about the same length as or over the spikelet; The apex of the first glume is truncated or * * *, covered with eyelashes; The second glume is slightly longer than the first glume, with rough ridge, eyelash at the apex, 2-toothed, awned, straight or curved, golden yellow, and10 ~15mm long; The lemma of infertile floret is present or absent, linear and smooth, and the palea is absent; There is a crack in the middle of the lemma of the fruiting floret, and the lobes are lashed and awned, which is similar to that of the second glume, but slightly longer; Stamens 1, anthers some small, some as long as 1 mm; Style 2, stigma brush-like, ca. 1 mm. The flowering and fruiting period is from May to September.

Born by rivers, crevices in walls, hillsides and wet wilderness. Distributed in Zhejiang, Taiwan Province, Fujian, Guangdong, Yunnan, Sichuan, Hunan, Jiangxi and other places.

Collect in autumn, dry in the sun or use fresh.

Chemical constituents include flavonoid glycosides, phenols, amino acids, organic acids and sugars.

Sweet and cool.

① Fujian Folk Herbs: "Sweet, flat and non-toxic."

② Minnan Folk Herbs: "Sweet, cold."

③ Handbook of Common Chinese Herbal Medicines of Guangzhou Army: "Sweet and light, cool."

Return to the Meridian of Mindong Materia Medica: "Entering the Spleen, Kidney and Bladder."

Functions: clearing away heat and promoting diuresis. Treat fever, polydipsia, diarrhea, icteric hepatitis, diabetes, erosion, hematuria and dysuria.

① "Fujian Folk Herbs": clear urine, clear stranguria, quench thirst and remove heat. "

② Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine Ⅱ: "Clearing heat, promoting diuresis, relieving stranguria and cooling blood. Indications are stranguria, liver heat, malnutrition and short urine in children. "

③ Mindong Materia Medica: "Treat fever and thirst, diarrhea due to intestinal wind, nausea and vomiting, adverse urination and red eyes."

④ Handbook of Common Chinese Herbal Medicines of Guangzhou Army: "Treating urinary tract infection, nephritis, edema, cold and high fever, icteric hepatitis and diabetes."

Usage and dosage for oral administration: decoction, 3 ~ 5 yuan (fresh1~ 2 Liang).

Prescription ① Treatment of fever, thirst, diarrhea, heat stranguria and blood stranguria: two to four ounces of fresh Hypericum japonicum. Decoction is taken orally. ("Mindong Herbal Medicine")

(2) Treating children's vexation and heat: Hypericum japonicum. Add boiling water to stew. (Fujian Folk Herbs)

③ Treatment of diabetes: two or two hypericum and twelve ginkgo. Decoct with water as appropriate. (Fujian Folk Herbs)

④ Treatment of leucorrhea: one or two hypericum and fourteen ginkgo biloba. Decoct with water. ("Mindong Herbal Medicine")

⑤ Treating wet dream's spermatorrhea with white turbidity: one to two taels of fresh Hypericum japonicum and seven taels of fresh Lygodium japonicum. Decoct with water. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)

⑥ Treatment of short urine in children: Hypericum japonicum with Juncus, Plantago and Erigeron japonicum, decocted. (Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine Ⅱ)

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