Also known as bulrushes, ground peppercorns, caraway-eating, hogweed.

Morphological features annual herb. Stem base multi-branched, pavement growth, with arachnoid microhair or glabrous. Leaves alternate, simple; leaf blade small, cuneate-oblanceolate or spatulate, 7 to 18 millimeters long, apex obtuse, base cuneate, with 3 to 5 serrations on the margins, glabrous or arachnoid microhairs on the back of the leaf, sessile, pungent when rubbed when fresh. June-October flowering, flowers small, yellowish green or light purplish red, forming heads oblate, single inflorescences borne in leaf axils; peduncle very short or absent; all tubular flowers. June-October fruit, small, 4-angled, about 1 mm long, with long hairs on the ribs. The whole herb is best harvested in summer and fall when the flowers are in bloom, and is used fresh or dried in the sun.

Growing environment of northeast, north, central, east, south and southwest provinces and regions are produced. It is mostly found in moist fields, gardens, meadows, roadsides, wastelands, shady and wet houses and ditches.

The flavor effect is pungent in taste and warm in nature. It has the function of dispelling wind, resolving phlegm, relieving cough, dispersing blood stasis, eliminating chancre, and clearing the nostrils.

The first formula: 15 grams of goose grass.

Use: Decoction with water, add rock sugar or honey to moderate dose.

Treatment: Whooping cough. Second formula: 50 grams of goose grass.

Use: Ground, 2 grams each time, warm wine, 3 times a day (non-drinker, use boiling water with a little wine).

Treatment: soft tissue injury. Third party: 60 grams of fresh goose not to eat grass, 60 grams of fresh stoneweed, 30 grams of loquat leaves.

Use: decoction of water, sugar, 1 dose per day, 10 days for a course of treatment.

Treatment: chronic bronchitis. The fourth formula: 10 grams of goose feather, 15 grams of wild chrysanthemum.

Use: water decoction, sugar as a guide.

Treatment: eye redness, swelling and pain. Fifth formula: 10 grams of goose feather (fine powder), 60 grams of pig liver (chopped).

Use: *** mix well steamed.

Treatment: pediatric chancre. Sixth formula: goose not to eat grass 30 grams.

Use: drying, finely ground, each use a little, with a blowpipe blowing people in the nasal cavity, 2 to 3 times a day, continuous use.

Treatment: atrophic rhinitis. Seventh formula: 30 grams of fresh goose not to eat grass, 120 grams of lean pork, rice wine.

Use: water stew, serving soup and eating meat.

Treatment: arthritis, bruises. Formula 8: 6 grams of goose not to eat grass, 9 grams of two-faced needle, 6 grams of licorice.

Use: Decoction with water.

Treatment: chronic gastritis.