The efficacy of apricot-scented rabbit ear wind

Xingxiang Rabbit Ear Wind is the name of a Chinese herbal medicine. Apricot-scented rabbit's ear fungus is a green plant of the genus Rabbit's Ear Fungus of the Asteraceae family. Wolf grass is used as medicine. Harvest in summer and autumn, wash, and use fresh or dry and keep. Apricot-scented rabbit ear wind is used to treat respiratory tract infections, lung abscesses, hemoptysis due to tuberculosis, jaundice, infantile malnutrition, indigestion, and mastitis; it can be applied externally to treat otitis media and centipede bites.

Ainsliaea fragrans Champ. is a perennial woody plant of the Asteraceae family and the genus Ainslia. The rhizome is cylindrical, the stem is upright, single, unbranched, scape-shaped, up to 60 cm high, and covered with long soft dark brown hairs. The leaves are clustered at the tip of the stem. The leaves are thick and papery, ovate, narrow ovate or ovate-long ring-shaped, emerald green on the top, light green or sometimes more or less dark purple on the bottom, with slightly obvious reticular veins and large reticular veins; the leaf stems are wingless, and the capitula usually has flowers. The involucre is cylindrical, and the back of the involucre has longitudinal stripes, no hairs, the receptacle is narrow and uneven, the flowers are bisexual, milky white, and have a sweet almond scent when open. The caryopsis is slender, the lobes are linear, the achenes are rod-shaped cylindrical or nearly fusiform, chestnut brown, and bloom from November to December.

It is spread across provinces such as Taiwan, Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Hunan, Guangdong, and Guangxi. It grows under shrubs on hillsides at an altitude of 30-850 meters or in grass beside roads and ditches.

The whole herb of Xingxiang Tuerfeng has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, removing toxins, promoting urination, and eliminating knots. It can be used to treat tuberculosis, vomiting blood, bruises, etc.

Xingxiang Tuerfeng is a perennial plant with the entire rhizome and leaves used as medicine. The production period of medicinal materials begins in the second year of artificial seed planting. The first-year Xingxiang Tuerfeng seedlings are generally not suitable for collection as medicinal materials. If the artificial planting and management methods are good, they can be harvested in the second year, but it is best to harvest in large quantities in the third year. In this way, not only can medicinal materials be collected, but also 1.3 million seeds/667 square meters of perfect seeds can be collected for seedling preparation. The best harvest period for Chinese medicinal materials is from the best period of vegetative growth to before entering reproductive growth. After harvesting, they should be washed and dried in time to prevent rot and mildew.