The efficacy and role of plateau fleabane

Plateau fleabane is a common Chinese medicinal material with great health-care effects. It also has certain effects on some diseases. We need to choose it according to our own needs. Many people in our daily life don’t know much about the plateau flea, so let’s analyze the plateau flea below.

【Other name】 Ganqing fleabane

[Source] Medicinal material source: the whole herb of Caryophyllaceae plant.

[Original form] Perennial herb, 10-20cm high. The main root is slender, woody, and the branch roots are hairy. The stems are clustered or oblique, slightly oblique at the base, with persistent fibrous withered leaf sheaths, erect at the top, and densely covered with light purple-red glandular hairs. Basal leaves are linear, 2-3cm long, 1-2mm wide, obtuse at the apex, wider at the base, united into a sheath, membranous, slightly curled at the margin with small protrusions, glabrous on both sides, with a prominent midrib; stem leaves are lanceolate, 1-1.5cm long, 2-3mm wide, obtuse at the apex, with many glandular hairs on the upper margin, and slightly narrow at the base. Inflorescence terminal, cymose, usually 3-flowered, densely covered with lavender glandular hairs; bracts ovate-elliptic, glandular hairs on the back; pedicels 3-5mm long, densely covered with glandular hairs; sepals 5, purple, broadly ovate; petals 5, white, obovate, 8-10mm long, 4-5mm wide; disk butterfly-shaped, with 5 elliptical glands; stamens 10, filaments linear; ovary oblong-obovate, stalked, styles 3, linear, stigma flat, oblong. Capsule obovate. Many seeds. Flowering period is July-August.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Growing in alpine meadows at an altitude of 3000-4500m.

【Nature and flavor】 Bitter; slightly sweet; cold

【Meridian】 Lung meridian

【Functions and indications】 Clears away heat and relieves cough; moistens the lungs and resolves phlegm. Mainly used for lung heat cough; pulmonary tuberculosis with sputum; scrofula

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoction, 6-15g.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

The above content is an introduction to the traditional Chinese medicine Fleas of Plateau, I hope it can be of some help to everyone. There are many medicinal herbs similar to plateau fleabane in our daily life. When we consume Chinese medicines such as plateau flea market, we need to follow the doctor's instructions and not consume them blindly.