The efficacy and function of the wound grass

The small shangli grass is also called fairy peach grass. Not only does it have a very nice name, it also has the function of treating diseases. The efficacy and function of the herb is to treat coughing up blood, bloody stool, bruises, congestion and swelling. If you experience these phenomena in your daily life, you can use the herb to treat them. The wound grass is a plant that grows in northern regions. It blooms from May to June and grows in damp wastelands or roadsides.

1. Xiantaocao

Also known as mosquito grass, water sedge, English peach grass, small-headed red, flat peach grass, bone-setting peach, windless automatic grass, bone-setting grass, small injury grass, small Cordyceps sinensis, ground pepper, diseased malnutrition grass, Bagua fairy peach grass, drought fairy peach grass, and little general.

Function: Promote blood circulation, stop bleeding, reduce swelling and relieve pain. Used for hematemesis, epistaxis, hemoptysis, and bloody stool; used externally to treat fractures, bruises, and swelling and pain caused by congestion.

It was first recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica for Famine Relief".

It enters the stomach meridian, lung meridian, and liver meridian.

The medicine is warm in nature and tastes sweet and bitter.

2. Plant morphology

The plant is 10-25 cm tall, usually with many branches from the base, an upright main stem, and sparse lateral branches, all glabrous or sparsely pubescent. The leaves are sessile, oblanceolate at the lower part and oblong at the upper part, 1-2 cm long and 2-6 mm wide, with entire margin or triangular serrations at the middle and upper end.

The raceme is long, reaching 20 cm in fruiting period; the bracts are the same shape as the leaves but slightly smaller; the pedicels are very short; the calyx lobes are oblong to broad, 3-4 mm long; the corolla is white or light blue, 2 mm long, with oblong to ovate lobes; the stamens are shorter than the corolla. The fruit is obcordate, obviously laterally compressed, 3-4 mm long, slightly wider, with short glandular hairs on the margin, and the persistent style does not extend beyond the notch. Seeds rectangular. Flowering period is May-June.

3. Origin and Habitat

Distributed in provinces and regions of Northeast, East China, Central China, and Southwest China. It is also widely distributed in Korea, Japan, the Siberian region of the Soviet Union, North and South America, and has naturalized in Europe.

It grows in moist wastelands and roadsides, and in the southwest it can reach an altitude of 3,000 meters.

4. Main value: The fruits are often enlarged due to galls. The whole herb with galls is used to treat bruises, blood stasis, swelling and pain, and fractures. The young shoots taste bitter, but can be boiled in water to remove the bitterness and then eaten.

5. Functions: promoting blood circulation, stopping bleeding, reducing swelling and relieving pain.

6. Main indications: Treat vomiting blood, coughing up blood, blood in stool, bruises, congestion and swelling. The young shoots taste bitter, but can be boiled in water to remove the bitterness and then eaten.

7. Ecological environment: It grows in moist wastelands and roadsides, and in the southwest it can reach an altitude of 3,000 meters.