What is the medicinal value of the nine-death grass?

Friends who like plants will definitely know about the euphorbia pulcherrima, which is a very good landscape grass. It looks like a strong pine tree and can be planted at home, which will bring fresh green to the family and fill it with vitality. From a medical point of view, the herb can also be used as a medicinal material. Let me tell you what the medicinal value of the herb is.

Main Value

It can be used as an indoor miniature bonsai. It is evergreen all year round and shaped like a mountain pine. It has extremely high ornamental value, but it is impossible for this plant to bloom.

Selaginella is not only an ornamental plant, but also a precious medicinal plant. It is an astringent and hemostatic agent and can be used to treat hemorrhage caused by trauma and knife wounds.

Indications

【Synonym】Invincible.

[Source] The whole herb of Sedum verticillata, a plant of the Crassulaceae family.

[Plant morphology] Sedum sedum is a perennial herb, 40 to 100 cm tall. The roots are thin. The stem is erect and unbranched.

There are 3 to 5 leaves arranged in whorls or oppositely, oblong-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 4 to 8 cm long, 2.5 to 3.5 cm wide, with acute apex, cuneate base, wavy and sparsely serrated edges, often pale underneath, and almost sessile.

The umbel is terminal, with densely grown flowers and a semi-spherical top, 2.5 to 6 cm in diameter; there are 5 sepals, lanceolate, about 1 mm long; there are 5 petals, yellowish-white, light green to white, oblong-elliptical, 4 to 5 mm long; there are 10 stamens; the scales are strip-shaped and cuneate; there are 5 carpels, oblong.

Flowering period is from July to September.

It grows in grass on high mountain slopes or among rocks at the edge of ditches.

Distributed in Sichuan, Hubei, Anhui, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Northeast China.

[Collection] Collect in summer and autumn, wash and use fresh.

【Nature and flavor】Bitter, neutral.

[Functions and indications - The effects of the herb] Detoxification, swelling reduction, and hemostasis.

Treat trauma, unknown swelling, snake bites and scorpion stings.

【Usage and Dosage】For external use: mash and apply or squeeze the juice to apply.

[Selected prescription] For treating snake bites: Take appropriate amounts of fresh herb, rhubarb, curculigo and ginseng, and alum, mash them into a paste, and apply to the wound.