Medicinal value
Collect whole grass and dry it in summer and autumn. Mopan grass
The trunk of dried herbs is about 2 cm thick, branched, and the outer skin has grid wrinkles. If it is powdery, it feels silky. The leaves are shriveled, light gray-green, light-colored on the back, a few are light yellow brown and short-haired, the flexible surface is not fragile when twisted by hand, and sometimes there are flowers or fruits in the axils of leaves. Slight gas. Guangdong, Guangxi and other places. Chemical composition: the whole plant of Mopan grass contains flavonoid glycosides, phenols, amino acids, organic acids and sugars. Flavonoid glycosides include gossypol, gossypol and cyanidin -3- rutin glycoside. Sexual taste ① "Raw Medicinal Material Essence": "Sweet in taste, flat in nature and non-toxic." ② Seeking the grassland: "Leaves: astringent, slightly warm." Function: clearing heat and promoting diuresis, dredging orifices and promoting blood circulation. Treat diarrhea, gonorrhea, tinnitus and deafness, hernia, carbuncle and urticaria. (1) Main points of raw medicinal materials: "expelling wind and reducing fever." Tinnitus and deafness, chicken stew is also ok. (2) Seek the grassland: "Strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea, and cook yellow sugar with rice." ③ Lingnan Collection of Medicine Record: "It can clear up the turbid, induce resuscitation and promote blood circulation, and it can also pound carbuncle. "④ Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine II:" Treating colic, body fluid due to kidney deficiency, painful or turbid urine, mumps, bone steaming and fatigue. " ⑤ Manual of Common Chinese Herbal Medicines in Guangjun: "Dispelling wind and clearing heat, ascending clear and descending turbid. Treat common cold, high fever, mumps, deafness, tinnitus, thyroid abscess and nocturnal emission. "Oral administration and dosage: decoction,1~ 2; Or stew. External use: tamping. The prescription of allergic urticaria: one or two tablets of dried stone mill grass, a proper amount of lean pork, and water stew. (Mopan grass in Xiamen)
"New Therapy and Selected Chinese Herbal Medicine") The chemical components of traditional Chinese medicine all contain alantolactone, isoalantolactone and gallic acid; The aerial parts contain leucine, histidine, threonine, serine, aspartic acid, vanillic acid, coumaric acid, hydroxybenzoic acid, caffeic acid, fumaric acid, P-β-D-glucoxybenzoic acid, glucose vanillyl glucose, fructose, galactose, glucose, β-sitosterol, mucus and C22-C44. Alkanes; Flowers contain gossypol -8- glucoside, gossypol, gossypol -7- glucoside, gossypol and cyanidin -3- rutin. Pennisetum also contains volatile oil, which consists of β-pinene, caryophyllene, caryophyllene oxide, eucalyptol, geraniol, geranyl acetate, etc.