("Compendium")

Different names of Euphorbia humilis (Compendium), Qian Qian Steppe, Yizai Grass, Qianrenba (Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine), Muzi Grass (Guangxi Chinese Veterinary Medicine Plant), Newton Grass, Duck Foot Grass (Minnan Folk Herbal Medicine), Su Zaiyue, Wild Chicken Feet and Su Niu Solanum Grass (Mindong Materia Medica).

The source is the whole grass with roots, which is a Gramineae plant.

Plant morphology of Elaeagnus japonicus

Annual herb, height15 ~ 90 cm. The fibrous roots are thin and dense. Culms tufted, erect or knee-bent at base. Leaf blade flat or rolled, up to15cm, 3 ~ 5mm wide, glabrous or verrucous on the surface; Leaf sheaths are compressed, ridged, hairless or sparsely verrucous, and the mouth is sometimes pilose; Ligule length is about 1 mm. Spikes, 3 ~10 cm long and 3 ~ 5 mm wide, are often arranged in fingers (rarely 2) at the top of the stem; Spikelets have 3 ~ 6 flowers, 4 ~ 7 mm long and 2 ~ 3 mm wide; The glume is lanceolate, the first 1 glume length1.5 ~ 2mm, and the second glume length is 2 ~ 3mm; The 1 lemma is 3 ~ 3.5 mm long with narrow wings on the ridge; The seeds are oblong, nearly triangular, about 1.5 mm long, with obvious wavy wrinkles. The flowering and fruiting period is June ~1October.

Used in wild places. Distributed all over the country.

Collect in August and September, wash, dry in the sun and cut off.

Sexual taste ① Fujian Folk Herbs: "Sweet, flat and nontoxic."

② Mindong Materia Medica: "Sweet and light in taste, cool in nature."

Meridian tropism ① Herb Mirror: "Entering the Liver Meridian."

② "Mindong Materia Medica": "Entering the lung and stomach."

Functions are indicated for clearing away heat and promoting diuresis. Treat summer fever, infantile convulsion, jaundice, dysentery, gonorrhea and dysuria; And can prevent and treat Japanese encephalitis.

① "Hundred Herbs Mirror": "Promoting blood and strengthening strength."

② Fujian Folk Herbs: "diuresis, clearing away heat and relieving hernia."

③ Collection of Common Folk Herbs: "Strengthening bones and muscles, treating nocturnal emission."

④ "Mindong Materia Medica": "Treat children with acute shock, stranguria, lumbar contusion, blood due to intestinal wind, nausea, asthma and cough."

⑤ "Common Chinese Herbs in Shanghai": "Promoting blood circulation and invigorating qi. Treat strain, strain and tuberculosis. "

Usage and dosage for oral administration: decoction, 3 ~ 5 yuan (fresh1~ 3 Liang); Or mash the juice.

Option 1: cure high fever, cramp and dizziness: four or two fresh beef tendon, three bowls of water, one bowl of stew, a little salt, and take it orally within 12 hours. ("Mindong Herbal Medicine")

(2) Treatment of flaccidity and labor injury, and treatment of furuncle: beef tendon grass was washed by roots to remove mud, and the black-bone female chicken was steamed in the abdomen to feed on the chicken. ("Compendium")

③ Treatment of damp-heat jaundice: two or two fresh cattails, one or two wild sesame seeds, decocted in water. (Jiangxi Herbal Manual)

④ Treatment of diarrhea: one to two pieces of beef tendon grass, decoction and black sugar, twice a day. ("Mindong Herbal Medicine")

⑤ Treatment of children with heat, small abdominal distension, and unfavorable urination: two or two fresh beef tendon roots are decocted into a bowl with water as appropriate, and taken three times before meals. (Fujian Folk Herbs)

⑥ Treatment of summer fever: two or two fresh beef tendons, decocted in water. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)

⑦ Treatment of turbidity: fresh beef tendon is two or two. Decoct with water. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)

⑧ Treatment of waist contusion and flash pain: one or two of beef tendon grass and loofah sponge respectively, and stewed wine clothes. ("Mindong Herbal Medicine")

Pet-name ruby cure hernia fresh beef tendon grass roots 42, dried litchi 14, add yellow wine and water half, stew for an hour, before meals, twice a day. (Fujian Folk Herbs)

Attending the treatment of breast abscess, redness, swelling and heat pain: one or two heads of beef tendon grass, one or two heads of dandelion, and one boiled egg. And gently rub the grass residue on the affected area. ("Minnan Folk Herbs")

⑾ Prevention of Japanese encephalitis: two to four taels of fresh beef tendon are decocted in water instead of tea. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)

Clinical application in prevention and treatment of Japanese encephalitis

Preventive fresh grass is decocted once a day 1 twice, 1 time, and taken continuously for 3 days; Interval 10 day, and then take it for 3 days; Or decocted 2-4 times a day, 1 time for 3-5 days. Among the preventive drugs taken by 184 130 people, only 2 cases developed the disease, and the incidence rate was 0.9 1100000, which was the same as that of the previous 6 years. Treatment with hay1~ 3 twice a day, washed and decocted with water to 50 ~100 ml, taken three times, 7 ~10 days as a course of treatment. Taking this as the main medicine, 27 cases were treated, and all of them were cured except 2 cases who died. The number of days required for the body temperature to drop to normal is short 1 day, and the elderly 12 days. The average fever reduction time for severe cases is 3.2 days. A few patients had slight and short-term low back pain, diarrhea, headache, nausea, vomiting and other reactions after taking the medicine, and no adverse effects were found on blood and kidneys. (The clinical use of beef tendon is sometimes mixed with the rat tail millet of the same family. )

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