The efficacy and function of long stem grass

Traditional Chinese medicine is a Chinese tradition. For many Chinese people, seeing a Chinese doctor and taking Chinese medicine when they are sick is their tradition and habit. Therefore, Chinese medicine is liked by many people. Long-stemmed Paicao is a common Chinese medicinal material. Let's learn about it together below.

【Other name】 Long-stalked Coptis chinensis

[Source] Medicinal material source: the whole herb of Passerine rhizome, a plant of the Primulaceae family.

[Original form] Annual herb, 35-75cm tall. The whole plant is hairless. The stem is usually solitary, cylindrical, straw yellow when dry, and unbranched except for the inflorescence. Leaves are opposite; sessile or nearly sessile; leaf blades are ovate-lanceolate, 4-10cm long, 1.2-3.2cm wide, with apex long acuminate or nearly caudate, base rounded, green above, pink-green below, with dark purple or black glandular dots and short glandular strips on both sides, especially dense along the margins, midrib slightly raised above, lateral veins slender, 4-5 pairs, reticulate veins not obvious. Flowers 4-11 in total in terminal and axillary loose racemes; peduncle slender, 6-12 cm long; pedicel filiform, often nearly horizontally extending, 1-3 cm long; bracts small, subulate, 3-5 mm long, apex acuminate, margin membranous; calyx 5-7 mm long, 5-parted nearly to base, lobes lanceolate, 1.2-1.5 mm wide, with dark purple glandular stripes and glandular dots, margin membranous; corolla yellow, 12-15 mm in diameter, base connate part 1.5-2 mm long, lobes rhombic-ovate to narrowly oblong, about 5 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, apex acute, with obvious veins, upper part often with scattered dark purple short glandular stripes; stamens 5, filaments connate to form a tube 2-2.5 mm high at lower part, separated part 1.5-3.5 mm long, anthers linear-oblong, about 1.2 mm long; ovary superior, glabrous, 1-loculed. Style filiform, 5-6 mm long. The capsule is brown, 3-3.5mm in diameter. The flowering period is May-June, and the fruiting period is June-July.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Grown in the shade of moist forests on hillsides at an altitude of 300-800m, by valley streams and in the shade of rocks.

【Nature and flavor】 Sweet; neutral

【Functions and indications】 Extinguish wind and calm convulsions; astringent and hemostatic. It is used for infantile convulsions, hemoptysis caused by tuberculosis, and bleeding caused by knife wounds.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decocted in water, 9-12g. For external use: take appropriate amount and mash fresh product for application.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

Through the introduction in the above article, I believe everyone has a certain understanding of long-stemmed Paicao. This is a medicinal material we are very familiar with, but it has many medicinal properties and functions. Therefore, I hope everyone will consume it based on their own situation.