The efficacy and function of large flying grass

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 big flying grass.

[Other names] Big flying sheep (Essentials of Raw Medicinal Herbs), Feiyang, Fairy Sitting Grass, Joint Flower, Large Milkweed, Oyster Grass, Cat Wound, Big Milkweed, Woody Milkweed, Golden Flower Grass, Dragonfly Grass (Fujian Folk Herbs), White Milkweed, Passing Centipede, Ant Grass (Southern Fujian Folk Herbs), Tianpaocao (Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine), Big Milkweed, Milkweed, Jiuwai Grass (Guangzhou Army's Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicine Handbook), False Milkweed, Ringworm Herb (Main Poisonous Plants in the South), Mother of Milk Grass (Health Bulletin (3): 11, 1971).

[Source] It is the whole herb or the whole herb with roots of the Euphorbiaceae plant. Harvest in summer and autumn and sun-dried.

[Original morphology] Annual herb, covered with coarse hairs, containing white latex, usually branched from the base of the stem. The branches are often light red or light purple, creeping or spreading, and 15 to 40 cm long. Leaves are opposite; ovate to oblong, 1 to 4 cm long, slightly narrow and oblique at the base, with small serrations on the edges, and usually purple spots in the middle; stipules are small and linear. Most of the cup-shaped inflorescences are densely packed into axillary capitula; the involucre is broadly bell-shaped, covered with soft hairs on the outside, and has 4 lobes at the apex; there are 4 glands, which are funnel-shaped, with short stalks and petal-like appendages; the flowers are unisexual, without flower branches: male and female flowers grow in the same involucre; there are many male flowers, with 1 stamen; there is only 1 female flower, which grows in the center of the inflorescence, with 3-chambered ovary and 3 styles. Capsule broadly ovate, about 1.5 mm long, hairy, triangular. Flowering season all year round.

[Habitat distribution] Grown in open fields, roadsides and garden edges. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and other places. Produced in Guangdong, Fujian and other places.

[Properties] The whole plant is dried with roots, 15 to 30 cm long. The roots are slender and curved; the stem is cylindrical, 1 to 3 mm thick, slightly curved, reddish brown, with irregular shallow longitudinal wrinkles and small warts, obvious nodes, and covered with yellow-green coarse hairs; the texture is hard and brittle and easy to break, the cross section is woody white and hollow; the leaves are mostly curled, papery and brittle; there are inflorescences in the leaf axils, the flowers are small, very numerous, shrunken, or with capsules. The qi is weak and peculiar.

【Nature and flavor】Pungent, sour, cold.

【Functions and indications】 Clears away heat, detoxifies, promotes lactation, eliminates dampness and relieves itching. Treat acute enteritis, bacillary dysentery, gonorrhea, hematuria, lung abscess, mastitis, furuncle, swelling, eczema, tinea pedis, and skin itching.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decocted in water, 2-3 qian (1-2 liang for fresh ones). For external use: decoct in water for washing or mash for application.

[Additional prescription] ① For the treatment of red and white dysentery: 5 to 8 qian of large flying grass. Add white sugar for dysentery and brown sugar for white dysentery, and stew with boiling water.

【Clinical application】 ①Treatment of acute enteritis and bacillary dysentery

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] From "Records of Collecting Medicinal Herbs in Lingnan"

Based on the above summary, Big Flying Grass still has certain pharmacological effects. What needs to be noted is that Big Flying Grass should be consumed according to one's actual situation and not in excess.