The efficacy and function of mouse footprints

We can often see rat footprints in our daily lives, so how should we eat rat footprints? What good effects do they have on our bodies? Let's take a look.

[Other names] Goose does not eat grass (Flora of Guangzhou), ground pepper (Luchuan Materia Medica), fist chrysanthemum (Guangxi Plant List).

[Source] It is the whole herb of the Asteraceae plant . Harvested in summer and autumn.

[Original morphology] Annual herb, spreading or creeping, 6-20 cm long, branched at the base, bald or covered with coarse hairs. Leaves are alternate; petiolate; obovate or inverted triangular-rectangular, 1 to 2.5 cm long, with rounded tips and entire or coarsely toothed margins. Inflorescence capitulate, lateral, sessile or with short stalks, oblate, about 5 mm in diameter; involucre hemispherical, green, bracts round, concave and blunt; flowers all tubular, heteromorphic; peripheral female flowers, purple; shorter than involucre, very numerous; disc flowers bisexual, less common, floral tube 3-5 lobed. Achenes are very small and without pappus. Flowering period is summer.

[Habitat distribution] It likes to grow in rice fields or beside fields. Distributed in southern my country.

【Nature and flavor】 "Luchuan Materia Medica": "spicy, warm."

【Functions and indications】 Treat injuries from falls, red and swollen eyes.

【Usage and Dosage】 For external use: mash and apply.

[Additional prescription] To treat red and swollen eyes: Take 3 grams each of mouse's paw prints, field yellow, and plowshare grass, pound them and apply to Hegu acupoint. If your left eye hurts, apply it to the right side; if your right eye hurts, apply it to the left side. (Luchuan Materia Medica)

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

【Source】 From "Luchuan Materia Medica"

From the above we can see that the traditional Chinese medicine rat's footprints has very high medicinal value, so we can consider applying rat's footprints in our lives.