Because of its appearance and dandelion is very similar, so the sheepsfoot grass has a ? So what are the effects of sheepsfoot grass? Next I take you to understand it.

Sheep's foot grass introduction

Sheep's foot grass is actually a kind of annual herbaceous Asteraceae plant. Sheep's foot grass is about 10 to 40cm high, the stem is erect, purple or green. It usually blooms from July to November every year, and the flowers are tubular and purple in color, with a short downy appearance. The fruiting season is from September to December each year. It can be harvested throughout the year, washed and used fresh or dried. Sheep's foot grass mainly grows in the field, village, roadside or grass.

Sheep's foot grass efficacy

Sheep's foot grass contains alkaloids and phenolics and other components, so sheep's foot grass on the staphylococcus aureus, typhoid fever bacillus and other inhibition of the efficacy of the role.

Sheep's foot grass is cool and bitter in nature, and has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, dispersing blood stasis and swelling. It is mainly used for upper respiratory tract infections, oral ulcers, mastitis, enteritis, urinary tract infections, sores and carbuncles, eczema or bruises.

Dosage: To be taken internally, decoct 9 to 18 grams of the herb, or 15 to 30 grams if it is fresh. It can also be pressed into the throat with its juice. Externally, take the appropriate amount of sheep's foot grass, decoction of water to wash the affected area or or mashed juice compress.

Sheep's foot grass for enteritis and diarrhea

Method: sheep's foot grass four two, four two peach leaves. Add the right amount of water and decoct into 1250 milliliters, twice a day, 50 milliliters each time.

Goat's foot grass for edema

Method: fresh goat's foot grass whole grass, lampblossom two taels each. Then decoct with water, to be taken before meals, twice a day.

Sheep's foot grass for pyelonephritis

Method: one catty of sheep's foot grass, one catty of dog liverwort, half a catty of plantain. Decoct 500 milliliters with water. Adults three times a day, 10 milliliters each time.

Treatment of upper respiratory tract infections and acute tonsillitis in children: sheep's hoof grass, ancient sheep vine, each equal. Each catty of the above medicine is decocted to 500 milliliters of concentrated liquid. Small children from three months to three years old, 20 to 40 milliliters each time, more than three years old discretionary increase.

Goat's foot grass to treat anonymous swollen toxins

Usage: take a handful of fresh goat's foot grass leaves, and then add brown sugar pounded compresses on the affected area, change twice a day.

Contraindications

Because of the blood-cooling effect of sheep's hooves, so it is pregnant women with caution.

The medicinal value of sheep's foot grass

Origin

1. From the "Lingnan medicinal record".

2. Plant Names and Facts: Purple back grass, born on the slopes of South Gan. The shape is similar to dandelion and purple stem, near the root of the leaf fork is slightly sparse, the back is purple, the tip of the autumn deep purple flowers, like bald female head flowers, not all put, old also flotsam. It has the same function as dandelion.

Pinyin Y?nɡ T? Cǎo

English name Sowthistle Tasselflower Herb

A.K.A. Purple Back Grass, False Chinese Orchid, Battle Grass, Red Back Leaf, Red Leaf, Trumpet Red Grass, Small Dandelion, Seventy-two Flowers, Cow's Tail Knee, Purple Back Ploughman's Bird's Bush, Goat's Bird's Bush, Hair Bird's Bush, Yellow Clover, Wild Chinese Orchid, Milkweed, Empty tube single, a thousand days red, purple back groundnut, wild bitter buy, rabbit grass, rabbit ginseng, Wu Boil grass

Source

Herbal origin: the whole grass of Asteraceae plant a little red.

Latin botanical and animal mineral name: Emilia sonchifolia (L.) D C.

Harvesting and storage: can be harvested throughout the year, washed, fresh or dried.

Original form of reddish annual or perennial herb, 10-40cm high. stems erect or base inclined, purple-red or green, smooth hairless work sparsely hairy, ± branched, branches soft, pinkish green. Leaves alternate; sessile; leaf blade slightly fleshy, those borne on lower part of stem ovate, 5-10cm long, 4-5cm wide, lyre-shaped divided, margin obtusely toothed, upper stem leaves small, usually entire or finely toothed, dark green above, often purplish red below, base auriculate, clasping. Heads 1-1.3 cm in diam., long pedicellate, in sparse corymbs, flowering branches often 2-dichotomously branched; flowers all bisexual, tubular, corolla purplish-red, 5-toothed; involucre terete, bracts 1-layered, as long as corolla. Achenes narrowly oblong, ca. 3 mm, angled; crown hairs white, soft, very abundant. Flowering July-November; fruiting September-December.

Habitat distribution

Ecology: Born in grassy areas by villages, roadsides, fields and open fields.

Resource distribution: distributed in Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan.

Traits

Trait Identification The whole grass is about 30cm long. rhizome slender, terete, light brownish-yellow; stem less branched, thin terete, with longitudinal lines, grayish-green, basal leaves ovate, lyre-shaped, the upper leaves are smaller, the base slightly embracing the stem; papery. Heads dry, flowers mostly deciduous, receptacle and involucre remaining, bracts tea-brown, membranous. Achenes light yellow-brown, crown hairs very numerous, white. There is a hay smell, taste light, slightly salty.

Preferably with more dry leaves.

Chemical constituents of the above-ground parts contain sengte alkaloids: Kirschner's senkir-kine (senkir-kine), doronine (doronine) [1]. Also contains flavonoids: Hyperoside (hy-peroside) [2], Trifolin (trifolin), Quercetin (quercitrin), Rutin (rutin), Quercetin (quercetin) [3]. It also contains triterpenoids: ursolic acid [3], simiarol, ? -sitosterol), -sitosterol (ursolic acid)[3], simiarol, ? -sitosterol), soy sterol (stigmasterol) [4], and n-hexacosanol (n-hexacosanol), tria-contane (tria-contane) [3], melissic acid (melissic acid), palmitic acid (palmitic acid) [4].

Pharmacological effects antibacterial effects: the decoction, on hemolytic Staphylococcus aureus inhibition. 100% decoction with plate punch method, on Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, palmitic acid and honey acid.

Taste and flavor bitter; cool in nature

Functions and Indications Clearing heat and removing toxins; dispersing blood stasis and eliminating swelling. Main upper respiratory tract infections; oral ulcers; pneumonia; mastitis; enteritis; dysentery; urinary tract infections; sores and carbuncles; eczema; bruises

Usage and dosage Internal: decoction of soup, 9-18g, fresh 15-30g; or mashed juice with throat. External use: appropriate amount, decoction of water to wash; or mashed compress.