Brahmaputra, annual or perennial herb, Xuanzheng family plants. Functions: cooling blood to stop bleeding, regulating qi and relieving pain. Used for vomiting blood, hernia, orchitis, leucorrhea.
Alias egg grass, stone tonic nails, double copper hammer, double kidney grass, mulberry kidney seeds
Source The plant of the genus Brahmi Veronica?didyma?Tenore?[V.?agrestis?sensu?Miq.?non?L.], family Xuanzhenshenidae, is used as a medicine with the whole herb. It can be harvested in spring, summer and fall, washed and dried.
The flavor is light and cool.
Functions and IndicationsCooling blood to stop bleeding, regulating qi and relieving pain. Used for vomiting blood, hernia, orchitis, leucorrhea.
Use and dosage?25 to 50 grams.
Excerpt? National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicine
Identifying characteristics: the stem is basally more or less branched into clusters, slender, creeping or ascending, more or less pilose, 10~25cm high. leaves are opposite, short-stalked, triangular-orbicular, 5~10mm long, and usually with 7~9 obtuse serrations. Racemes terminal; bracts leaflike, alternate; pedicels slightly shorter than bracts, reflexed downward after flowering; calyx 4-parted several times to the base, lobes ovate, up to 5mm long in fruit, pilose; corolla bluish-purple, rotate, 4-8mm in diameter, tube very short, capsule subreniform, slightly flattened, densely pilose, with glandular hairs mixed in at the ridges, slightly shorter than the calyx, 4-5mm wide, notch at a right angle, lobes rounded apically, veins inconspicuous Styles flushed with or slightly exceeding notch; seeds boat-shaped and y concave, abaxially undulate and longitudinally wrinkled.? Easily recognized as lavender
Biological characteristics: annual or trans-annual herb, born in wasteland, forest margins, roadsides below 2200m. Shaanxi Weihe River Basin was born in September~October, early spring occurs in very small quantities. Flowering in March~May, seed reproduction. Seeds mature gradually in April, sprouting after about 3~4 months of dormancy.
Origin: West Asia; widespread in temperate and subtropical regions of the world.
Chinese distribution status: Beijing, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan.