The efficacy and function of Imbricata root

Imperata cylindrica, also known as thatch, white grass, and white imperata root, is a perennial woody plant of the genus Imperata in the Cyperaceae family. Plant height is 20-80 cm. The roots and stems are milky white and run horizontally underground. They gather together and have fish scales on the nodes. The tips have a sweet taste. Poria cocos effects: sweet and cold. The leaves are flat, linear or linear-lanceolate, blooming in summer, with cylindrical panicles. The flowers are silvery, with clustered branches and spikelets 3-4mm long and stalked. So what are the functions and effects of Imbricata root?

One year old. The tip of the culm is flat or obliquely ascending; 20-40 cm high. The ligule is short, membranous or broken into micro-villi; the leaves are lanceolate, relatively hard, 1.5-4mm wide, with hard spines on the lower edge, and the tip is heart-shaped and clasping the stem. The inflorescence is upright in spike-shaped racemes, 5-10 cm long, with grooved rachis; the spikelets are linear, single, almost sessile, (3)4-5 mm long (excluding the awn), containing one bisexual flower, which develops outward after maturity; the glumes are narrowly linear, with 1 vein, and the top widens into a thin awn of 1-2 cm; the inner and outer palea are membranous, completely transparent, and fine. Distributed in Hebei Province, Henan Province, Fujian Province, Guangdong Province (Hainan Province), and Yunnan Province; common in subtropical Asia and Africa. Grown on dry sandy soil.

The Chinese medicinal material is a dry underground stem, which is long and thin cylindrical, sometimes branching, of varying lengths, generally 30 to 60 cm long, 1.5 mm in diameter, with a milky white or yellowish white surface, with light yellow-brown, slightly protruding nodes; the node diameter is about 3 cm. Lightweight and tough, not easy to break. The cross section is fibrous, the center is yellowish white with a small round hole, the outside is white and dense, or there are thousands of gaps like wheels, and the outside and the center are easily separated. It has a faint smell and a slightly sweet taste. It is best to choose those that are coarse, fat, white in color, without roots, and sweet in taste.

taboo

It is forbidden for those with weak spleen and stomach, frequent urination without thirst.

"Bencao Jingshu" says: It should not be taken for hiccups caused by cold, vomiting caused by cold, fever caused by damp phlegm and fluid retention.

Mango (Bencao Congxin): It is not suitable for those who vomit blood due to yin deficiency and internal heat.

Additional prescription

1. To treat vomiting blood: take a handful of Imperata root. Decoction in water. (Qianjin Yifang)

2. To treat nosebleed due to blood heat: one bottle of Imperata root juice. Drink it. (Good Prescriptions for Women)

3. To treat persistent nosebleed: grind Imperata root into powder and take 10g with rice water. Sheng Hui Fang)