The efficacy and function of barnyard grass root

As the pressure of modern life increases, more and more health care methods are emerging, but the most popular ones are still traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine that have been tested for thousands of years. For example, what are the effects and functions of the root of Echinochloa crusgalli? Let me introduce it to you today.

[Source] Medicinal material source: the root or whole herb of Carex rubra, a plant of the Cyperaceae family.

[Original form] Berry moss, mostly bare herbs, 60-150cm high. The rhizome is horizontal, thick, and clustered. The stem is triangular prism-shaped, with brown-red, fibrous, divided leaf sheaths at the base. Leaf stalks; leaf blades linear, leathery, longer than stalks, 30-50cm long, pa 8-12mm, with long pointed tips, and leaf sheaths bare. The panicle is compound and 5-30cm long; the panicles of lateral branches are 5-6cm long; the bracts are leaf-like, brown, longer than the inflorescence, and have bracts; the spikelets are extremely numerous, male and female in sequence, cylindrical, 1.5-6cm long; the scales of female flowers are oblong-ovate, about 3mm long, brown-red, with narrow white membranous edges, obtuse at the apex, with awns, and 1-3 veins. The fruit capsule is obovate, slightly longer than the scales, swollen, berry-like, blood-red, with many veins, and the tip is contracted into a short beak with 2 small teeth at the tip. The nutlets are ovate-triangular, brown-red, and enclosed in persistent capsules. Flowering and fruiting period is from March to June.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Grown by rivers, villages, roadsides and sparse woods on hillsides.

【Nature and flavor】 Bitter; astringent; slightly cold

【Functions and indications】 Cooling blood and stopping bleeding; regulating menstruation. Mainly used for irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia, epistaxis, and gastrointestinal bleeding

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoction, 15-30g.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

From the above introduction to the root of Echinochloa crusgalli, we can see that the root of Echinochloa crusgalli is of great help to the human body. It can improve some bad symptoms of the human body and is a very useful medicinal material for the human body.