The efficacy and function of leek leaf rue

In fact, the occurrence of many human diseases is closely related to diet. If you want to have a healthy body, diet therapy is a very good method. Various Chinese medicinal materials play a very critical role. Today we will introduce to you the Chinese medicine leek leaf rue.

[Other names] Wild lemongrass (Flora of Guangzhou), citronella (Illustrated Description of Main Plants of China, Poaceae), rue (Empirical Identification Method of Morphology and Properties of Chinese Medicinal Herbs), and stinkweed (Economic Flora of China).

[Source] It is the whole herb of the Poaceae plant Cymbopogon japonicus . Cut the whole grass in summer and dry it.

[Original morphology] Perennial herb, 60 to 100 cm tall, with nodes covered with white-pink tiny hairs. The leaves are linear, flat, 30-50 cm long, 4-6 mm wide, with fine hairs on the base; the leaf sheaths are glabrous, the ligules are 2-5 mm long, obtuse at the apex, and glabrous. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Flowering and fruiting period is from August to October.

[Habitat distribution] It mostly grows on hillside grasslands. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei and other places.

[Nature and flavor] "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "Slightly cold in nature, spicy and slightly bitter in taste."

【Functions and indications】 ① "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "It can treat mountain mist and miasma, acclimatization, cold, wind, cold, summer heat and dampness, irregular qi of the four seasons, alternating cold and heat, body fatigue and weakness, alternating cold and heat, malaria-like but not malaria or miasma-malaria, chest and diaphragm swelling, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, etc."

[Additional prescription] For treating heatstroke, cholera, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, headache, fever, chills, or miasma, and inability to adapt to the local climate: one qian of leek leaves and rue, five fen of papaya, one qian of Atractylodes, one qian of dried tangerine peel, one qian of Magnolia officinalis, five fen of licorice, and one slice of ginger. Decoction in water. Avoid greasy and meaty foods. (Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan)

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

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