For the dog's tail grass, I believe that the vast majority of people recognize, because it is everywhere on the roadside, many people as children will pick its flower spikes to play, very interesting, and in fact, the dog's tail grass is a taste of medicinal value of the Chinese medicine, in life or a certain application.
So, what kind of efficacy and role of the dog's tail grass, clinically have what kind of application? This issue of the article I will come to you to popularize the knowledge in this regard.
The efficacy of the dog's tail grass
The dog's tail grass, also known as atramentous grass, bright grass, etc., in traditional Chinese medicine, the whole grass into the medicine, it is considered to be cool, sweet taste, light, have a heat and humidity, dispel wind and eyesight, kill insects and detoxification effect, and thus for the wind and heat colds, dysentery, astringent pain in the urinary tract, etc., have a role to play in the treatment of the disease symptoms.
In addition, the medical work "Compendium of Materia Medica" for its treatment of warts and eyes this kind of disease also has related records:
The treatment of warts and eyes, through the hair, through the that is dry to extinguish also. Where the red eye fist hair example of eyelashes, turn the eye face, to one or two stems dipped in water to screech away the bad blood.
1. Clearing heat and dampness
Dog's tail grass is a cool herb, so it has the effect of clearing heat, but also has the effect of dampness, and thus for the dampness and heat of the crowd is more suitable.
2. Sensitization
Pharmacological studies have shown that dogwood pollen has a sensitizing effect, is an important class of allergens, and therefore for allergic people need to be avoided.
Dog's tail grass in the clinical application
Medical writings, for the dog's tail grass in the actual life of the application of the record is still a lot of, the following for the introduction of a few of the common:
1. Treatment of the distant years of the eyes are not clear: the dog's tail grass research powder, steamed sheep's liver to serve. (Classification of herbs and medicinal properties) 2. treatment of woolly eschatology (a woolly cholera): the dog's tail grass decoction soup internal service, external silver needle to pick through the red scrofula, extrusion of the scrofula of white silk such as woolly with twine, or else bloated death. (Zhou Yisheng Jia Bao Fang)