Red thistle
Pinyin shè n hó n jy
Alias salted shrimp flower, white flower, white herb, flying grass, lemon chrysanthemum, seven-star chrysanthemum, white hair bitter, catgut, cattail, red medicine and anti-inflammatory grass.
It comes from Cirsium japonicum, a plant of Cirsium japonicum in Compositae, and is used as medicine with whole grass or leaves and tender stems. Harvesting in summer and autumn, washing, fresh use or drying.
The taste is spicy, slightly bitter and cool.
Functions: expelling wind and clearing heat, relieving pain, stopping bleeding and removing stones.
Used for upper respiratory tract infection, tonsillitis, pharyngolaryngitis, acute gastroenteritis, stomachache, abdominal pain, metrorrhagia, kidney calculi, and bladder stones; Externally used for the treatment of eczema, thrush, carbuncle, cellulitis, lower limb ulcer, otitis media and traumatic hemorrhage.
Usage and dosage 0.5 ~ 1. For external use, appropriate amount is mashed with fresh grass or ground with dry products, and applied to the affected area, or squeezed with juice and dropped into ears, or decocted and washed with water.
Extended data
The name of Chinese medicine is Ji.
It is the whole grass of the compositae plant Cirsium japonicum. Distributed in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places in China, it is often cultivated or escaped into the wild.
Has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, stopping bleeding and relieving pain. Can be used for treating common cold, fever, sore throat, aphtha, hemoptysis, epistaxis, metrorrhagia, abdominal pain, rheumatalgia, traumatic injury, traumatic hemorrhage, carbuncle, sore poison, eczema and itching.
Another name
White flowers, pustules, Cimicifuga, Spruce, Musk, Eupatorium odoratum, Anti-inflammatory Herbs, Shengyong Medicine, Shuiding Medicine, Fisheye, Purple Hairy Grass and Broad Grass.
Acquisition and processing
Harvest in summer and autumn, remove roots, fresh use or cut into sections to dry.
Morphology of Cirsium japonicum
Pogostemon fragrans is also called "the flora of Guangzhou".
Annual herb, 50- 100 cm tall, sometimes less than 100 cm tall. There is no obvious main root. Stems are stout, with a diameter of 4 mm at the base, or at least slender, and the diameter of the base is less than 65438 0 mm. They are not branched or branched from the base or above the middle, or the lower base is creeping, and there are often adventitious roots on the nodes. All the stems and branches are red, or the upper part is green, white and dusty, or the upper part is densely villous.
The leaves are opposite, sometimes the upper part is alternate, and there are often axillary undeveloped leaf buds. The middle stems and leaves are oval or oval or oblong, 3-8 cm long and 2-5 cm wide; The leaves on the middle leaves and axillary branchlets are getting smaller and smaller, oval or oblong, and sometimes the plants are all leaflike, only 1 cm long and only 0.6 mm wide.
All leaves are obtuse or broadly wedge-shaped, with three veins at the base or inconspicuous five veins, sharp tips and serrated edges. Their petioles are 1-3 cm long, with white sparse hairs on both sides and yellow glandular spots. There are a little more hairs on the upper veins and leaves, and sometimes the lower veins are almost hairless. Petiole of upper leaves or axillary young branches and petiole of leaflets on axillary branches are usually densely villous and white.
4- 18 heads are usually arranged in a compact corymb at the top of the stem; Inflorescence diameter 1.5-3 cm, rarely arranged in loose umbels. Pedicel 0.5- 1.5 cm long, pubescent by dust ball.
Involucre bell-shaped or hemispherical, 5 mm wide. Involucral bracts are 2-layered, oblong or lanceolate, 3-4 mm long, glabrous outside, with torn edges.
Corolla length 1.5-2.5 mm, glabrous outside or with dust at the top, 5-lobed, lavender. Achene is dark brown, 5-sided, long1.2-1.7mm, with white sparse fluff. There are 5 or 6 layers of coronal hair membranes, which are rectangular, with sharp or tapering tips or short awns, or some membranes are truncated without awning; The length of all hair membranes is1.5-3mm. Flowering and fruiting period can be found all year round.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-hongshengji