Used as a whole herbal medicine, it can astringe, stop bleeding, nourish the liver and kidneys, and can be used externally to treat plantar warts.

Indications: nourishing the liver and kidneys, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It can treat various hematemesis, nosebleeds, hemoptysis, intestinal bleeding, hematuria, hemorrhoid bleeding, and hemorrhage.

Pounding the juice and applying it on eyebrows can promote hair growth. Oral administration has the effect of black hair and black hair.

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Eclipta eclipta, Jimo Eclipta, scientific name is lǐ cháng (pronunciation: lǐ cháng)

It is a plant of the genus Eclipta of the Asteraceae family, its distribution In fields, roadsides, rivers, and all over the country in mainland China.

Grows in areas with an altitude of 0 meters to 1900 meters. It has not yet been artificially introduced and cultivated.

It is widely distributed throughout the country and is commonly found in field stems and wetlands beside ditches and streams.

Used as a whole herbal medicine, it can astringe, stop bleeding, and nourish the liver and kidneys.

Topical treatment of plantar warts.

Annual herb.

The stems are erect, ascending or lying flat, up to 60 cm, usually branched from the base, and adnate with strigose hairs.

The leaves are oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, sessile or have very short stalks.

3-10 cm long, 0.5-2.5 cm wide, with a pointed or acuminate apex, finely serrated edges or sometimes only wavy edges, and densely covered with hard and rough hairs on both sides.

The diameter of the flower head is 6-8 mm, with a thin peduncle 2-4 cm long.

The involucre is globose and bell-shaped, the involucre is green, herbaceous, 5-6 arranged in 2 layers, oblong or oblong-lanceolate.

The outer layer is slightly shorter than the inner layer, and the back and edges are covered with short white hairs.

The outer female flowers are 2-layered, tongue-shaped, 2-3 mm long, the tongue is short, and the top is 2 lobed or entire.

There are many bisexual flowers in the center. The corolla is tubular, white, about 1.5 mm long, and has 4 toothed lobes at the top.

The style branches are blunt and have papillae.

The receptacle is convex, with lanceolate or linear receptacles.

There are micro hairs above the middle part of the support plate, the achenes are dark brown, 2.8 mm long, the achenes of female flowers are triangular, and the achenes of bisexual flowers are flat and quadrilateral.

The top is truncated, with 1-3 denticles, the base is slightly reduced, the edges have white ribs, and the surface has small knob-like protrusions, hairless.

The flowering period is from June to September.