Umbrella House Flower Ear Grass , a plant that can be seen everywhere in rural areas. It grows in grass by ditches, rivers, open land, forest grass creeping, roadside, hillside, field, and roadside. People who don’t understand it are just a weed when they see it, while people who understand it are just a treasure. It looks very similar to white flower snake grass . Don't mess it up.
Umbrella flower ear grass and white flower snake grass have the same effect, which is better than snake tongue treasure, clears heat, cools blood and detoxifies, and treats appendicitis plus gourd leaf-shaped cow milk roots have special effects. Umbrella flower ear grass is an annual herb, loose, and delicate herb, 10-40 cm tall; its stems and branches are square and cylindrical, hairless or sparsely covered with pubic hairs, many branches, upright or vibrant. (Many branches)
【Leaf】
Leaves are opposite, nearly sessile, membranous, linear, rarely narrow-lanceolate, 1-2 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, short pointed at the top, wedge-shaped at the base, the edges are curled when dry, the two sides are slightly rough or there are extremely sparse and pubic hairs on the upper central vein; the central vein is sunken above, flat or slightly convex below; stump leaf membranous, sheath-shaped, 1-1.5 mm long, and several short pricks at the top. (Leaf-like)
(membrane, linear)
[flower]
inflorescence axillary, umbrella inflorescence arrangement, there are 2-4 flowers, rarely degenerating into single flowers, with a total peduncle as thin as silk and 5-10 mm long; bracts are small, drill-shaped, and 1-1.2 mm long; flowers are 4 numbers, with slim and 2-5 mm long; calyx tube spherical, Extremely sparse and pubic hair, slightly narrow at the base, 1-1.2 mm in diameter, calyx lobes are narrowly triangular, about 1 mm long, with marginal hair; corolla white or pink, tubular, 2.2-2.5 mm long, hairless in the throat, corolla lobes oblong, shorter than the coronal canal; stamens are grown in the coronal canal, filaments are extremely short, anthers are hidden in the anther, oblong, 0.6 mm long, and the two ends are flat; the style is 1.3 mm long, with sparse hair in the middle, 2 filaments in the stigma, and the lobes are slightly broad and rough. (Inflorescence axillary, inflorescence arrangement of umbrella chambers)
[Fruit]
capsule membranous, spherical, diameter 1.2-1.8 mm, with several inconspicuous longitudinal edges, flat top, persistent calyx eaves lobes 1-1.2 mm long, and the dorsal fissures on the top chamber are cracked when mature; more than 10 seeds per chamber, with rhinestones, smooth seed coat, dark brown after drying.
[Flower and Fruit Period]
Flowering and Fruit Period almost all year round.
Foreign distribution: Africa, African tropical, American continent, American tropical, Himalayas, Asian tropical, Vietnam .
is generally distributed in: Jiangsu Province, Shanghai City, Zhejiang Province, Jiangxi Province, Fujian Province, Taiwan Province, Hubei Province, Hunan Province, Hainan Province, Guangdong Province, Guangxi Autonomous Region, Sichuan Province, Guizhou Province, Yunnan Province and other regions.
Traditional medicinal use: use whole herbs as medicine. Chinese medicine name: also known as water line grass .
Picking is usually harvested in summer and autumn, fresh or dried.
[Natural and Taste Function]
bitter and cold, enters the lungs and large intestine meridians. Clear heat and detoxify, appendicitis, insect killing and malaria intercepting.
[Indications and usage]
treats malaria , intestinal carbuncle , swelling and toxins, scalding. Oral administration: Decoct, 0.5-1 liang. Topical use: Decoct in water and wash.
[Application Example]
1. Treatment of malaria: 2 qian each of waterline grass, Changshan, verbena . Mix and decoct.
2. Treat scalds: Fry and wash the water line grass.
3. High fever, intestinal abscess (appendicitis): 15g each of waterline grass, little red, ghost needle grass , decoct in water and take.
4. Humel moth (tonsillitis), laryngeal (pharyngitis), oral sores (stomatitis), hot shower (urinary tract infection): 15g each of waterline grass, Houttuynia cordata , a little red , decoct in water and take.
5. Adjuvant treatment of esophageal cancer, gastric cancer , lung cancer, liver cancer
