The efficacy and function of pearl grass

Pearl grass is a kind of traditional Chinese medicinal material with very wide effects. We can use pearl grass in many places. Pearl grass also plays a very important role in the treatment and relief of many diseases. Now let us learn about pearl grass.

[Alias] Open during the day and closed at night, Cross Pearl Grass (Essentials of Raw Medicinal Herbs), Yin Yang Grass, False Oil Orange (Guide to Clinical Practice), Real Pearl Apple (Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica), Carp Grass, Hu Xiuxiu (Flora of Guangzhou), Old Crow Pearl (Fujian Folk Herbs), Night-jasmine Pearl (Compendium of Common Folk Herbs), Landed Oil Orange, Small Ligan (Luchuan Materia Medica), Follicle Grass (Nanning City Pharmacopoeia), Night-jasmine Grass (Jiangxi Folk Herbs), Mountain Gleditsia (Guizhou Folk Medicine), Leaf Queen Pearl (Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine), Oil Orange Grass (Fujian Traditional Chinese Herbs), Fish Scale Grass (Xuzhou's Selection of Single-Prescription Proven New Medical Methods).

[Source] It is the whole herb or the whole herb with roots of the Euphorbiaceae plant Leafy urinary vine . Harvest in summer and autumn and sun-dried.

[Original form] Phyllanthus urinaria (Illustrated Record of Plant Names and Realities)

[Habitat distribution] Grown on hillsides, roadsides and field edges. Distributed in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places. It is mainly produced in Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan and other places.

[Properties] The whole plant is dried with roots. The rhizome is light brown in appearance and has pith. The taproot is not well developed and has many fibrous roots, which are light gray-brown. The stem is about 2 to 3 mm thick, with gray-brown at the base of the old stem; the stems and branches are longitudinally wrinkled, gray-brown, gray-brown or brown-red; brittle and easy to break, with a hollow cross section. Branches with longitudinal wrinkles and indistinct membranous wing-like ridges. The leaves are thin and small, gray-green, wrinkled and easy to fall off. The flowers are small, borne in the axils beneath the back of the leaves, and are mostly shrunken. Some have oblate brown fruits. It has a slight fragrance and the leaves taste slightly bitter.

[Chemical composition] The whole plant contains phenolic components and triterpenoid components.

【Nature and flavor】 Sweet, bitter, cool.

【Entry into meridians】 "Quanzhou Materia Medica": "Enters the liver and lung meridians."

【Functions and indications】 Calming the liver, clearing away heat, promoting diuresis and detoxifying. It is used to treat enteritis, dysentery, infectious hepatitis, nephritis edema, urinary tract infection, infantile malnutrition, conjunctivitis, eye cataracts, mouth ulcers, head ulcers, and unknown swellings.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water, 0.5-1 liang (1-2 liang for fresh); or mash into juice. For external use: mash and apply.

[Additional prescription] ① Treating red and white dysentery: 1 to 2 liang of fresh grass of Phyllanthus urinaria. Decoction in water. Add white sugar for red dysentery and brown sugar for white dysentery. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)

【Clinical application】 ①Treatment of dysentery and diarrhea

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] From "Essentials of the Properties of Raw Medicinal Herbs". "Illustrated Catalogue of Plant Names and Realities": Leaf beads are often found in the shade of walls in Jiangxi and Hunan. It is four or five inches high, just like the buds of a night-blooming jasmine tree. The leaves open during the day and close at night. Below the leaves, there are millet-sized seeds along the stems, which are yellow when young and purple when ripe.

Through the detailed introduction of pearl grass in this article, we can learn about the relevant functions and eating methods of pearl grass. The value of pearl grass can be seen from its efficacy, which fully reflects the importance of pearl grass.