What are the effects and functions of grinding disc grass

Grinding grass is actually a sub-shrub herb, but its roots, if used correctly, have certain therapeutic effects on the treatment of gonorrhea, tinnitus, deafness, urticaria, or colds with high fever, mumps, etc. Therefore, when it comes to the current use of Grinding Grass, everyone should focus on a comprehensive understanding so that they can use it reasonably for treatment.

Grinding grass is an annual perennial, upright, branched, subshrubby herb, 0.5 to 2.5 meters high, all covered with gray short soft hairs. The leaves are alternate, with long petioles; round-ovate to broadly-ovate, 3-9 cm long, 2.5-7 cm wide, mucronate at the tip, cordate at the base, with irregular round teeth on the margin, and covered with small gray soft hairs on both sides. The flowers are solitary in the leaf axils, yellow in color, 2 to 2.5 cm in diameter; the pedicel is long with nodes near the top; the calyx is disc-shaped, 5-parted, green, densely covered with gray pubescence, and the lobes are broadly ovate and short-pointed; there are 5 petals, more than twice as long as the calyx; there are many stamens, and the filaments are connected into a short tube at the base; the ovary is superior, with 15 to 20 carpels arranged in a whorl. The capsule is round and millstone-like, about 1.5 cm high and 2 cm wide, with 15 to 20 valves and a short awn at the top. Seeds reniform, sparsely stellately pubescent. Grown in sandy places, wilderness or roadsides. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Fujian, Taiwan and other places. The roots (mopan roots) and seeds (mopan grass seeds) of this plant are also used for medicinal purposes, each of which is described in detail in a separate article.

The efficacy and function of Mopan grass

Clears away heat, promotes dampness, opens the orifices, and promotes blood circulation. Treat diarrhea, gonorrhea, tinnitus, deafness, hernia, carbuncle, and urticaria.

① "Essentials of Herbal Medicine" says: "It can dispel wind and relieve heat. It can also treat tinnitus and deafness. It can also be used to cook chicken or meat."

② "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "It strengthens the spleen and stops diarrhea. It can be eaten by pounding rice and boiling it with brown sugar."

③ "Lingnan Collection of Medicinal Herbs": "It can raise the clear and lower the turbid, open the orifices and activate blood circulation, and can also be pounded and applied to hands and carbuncles."

④ "Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine" II: "It is used to treat small intestinal hernia pain, kidney deficiency and residual urine, urinary pain or turbid urine, mumps, bone steaming and fever."

⑤ Guangzhou Army "Common Chinese Herbal Medicine Handbook": "It can dispel wind and heat, raise the clear and lower the turbid. It can treat colds with high fever, mumps, deafness, tinnitus, thyroid abscess, and spermatorrhea."

After understanding the effects and functions of millstone grass, if you have problems such as impotence, premature ejaculation, spermatorrhea, deafness, urticaria, etc., you can try to use it for treatment. This will be safer and healthier than some drug treatments and will reduce some side effects.