The efficacy and function of barnyard grass seedlings

Echinochloa crusgalli is a common Chinese medicine. It can be used for medicinal purposes as well as for food. Its effects and functions are quite comprehensive. Let's take a look at it below.

[Source] The roots and seedlings of the grass family plant Echinochloa crusgalli .

[Original form] Bai (Zuo Zhuan). Annual herb, 50 to 130 cm tall. Culms erect or spreading. The leaves are flat, linear, up to 40 cm long and 5 to 10 mm wide, with bare sheaths and missing ligules. Inflorescence erect, narrow, irregularly spire-shaped, 10-30 cm long; branches repeated, overlapping, spreading or close together, the lowest slightly sparse, the longest usually more than 2 cm long, the upper acuminate and close together; spikelets about 3 mm long, coarsely hairy or papillate coarse hairs, awn up to 1 cm or longer, or just a point: the first glume ovate, about 1/8 the length of the spikelet; the second glume is nearly as long as the lemma of the sterile floret, 5-veined; the sterile floret is neutral, with palea; the lemma of the fruiting floret is elliptic, 2.5-3 mm long, white or brown. Flowering and fruiting period is summer and autumn.

[Habitat distribution] It grows in swamps and is one of the weeds in rice fields. Distributed throughout the warm regions of the country.

【Function and indication】 "Compendium of Materia Medica": "For wounds and injuries that continue to bleed, mash and apply or grind into powder and mix with the medicine."

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] From Compendium of Materia Medica; 1. From Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica. There are two species, one yellow and white, the other purple and black. The purple and black one has hairy bracts, and people in the north call it Wuhe.

Above we introduced what barnyard grass seedlings are. We know that barnyard grass seedlings have very comprehensive effects and functions, so we can use barnyard grass seedlings as a means of regulating the body in daily life.