The efficacy and function of needleleaf edelweiss

In fact, the occurrence of many human diseases is closely related to diet. If you want to have a healthy body, diet therapy is a very good method. Various Chinese medicinal materials play a very critical role. Today we will introduce to you the Chinese medicine coniferous edelweiss.

【English name】 all grass of Awlshapedleaf Edelweiss

[Other names] Small fireweed, wormwood, woolly edelweiss

[Source] Medicinal material source: the whole herb of Edelweiss, a plant of the Asteraceae family.

[Original form] Leontopodium alpinum is a perennial herb, 5-30cm long. The rhizome is short and thick, with woody roots and dense terminal tufts of tassel-shaped leaves, many branches, usually in sparse clusters. There are many flower stems, usually growing on root leaf clusters or rhizomes, covered with white silky spider-like hairs or hairs. The leaves are linear or linear-subulate, 0.8-3cm long, no more than 0.1cm wide, sessile, with curled edges, covered with spider-like hairs or long soft hairs or nearly hairless on the upper side, and covered with white pubescence on the lower side; the bracts are numerous, the same length as the leaves on the stem or much longer, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 1.2-3mm wide, covered with white or sometimes thick yellow-brown pubescence on both sides, and open into groups of bracts with a diameter of 2-6cm. Inflorescence capitulate, 3-4mm in diameter, often 10-40 densely packed into compound corymbs or umbels; involucre about 3mm long, covered with thick white hairs; involucral bracts about 3 layers, glabrous at the apex, pointed or slightly obtuse, often sunken in the hairs; florets heteromorphic or dioecious; corolla 2.5-3mm long; male corolla funnel-shaped tubular, with lanceolate pointed lobes; female corolla filiform, with white pappus; male corolla hairs slightly thicker and serrated on the upper part; female corolla hairs filamentous, with fine serrations. The sterile ovary and achenes have papillate projections. Flowering period is August-September.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Growing in high mountains and subalpine wastelands, meadows, gravel slopes and the outer edge of coniferous forests at an altitude of 2500-2900m.

【Nature and flavor】 Bitter; pungent; cold

【Functions and indications】 Clears away heat and detoxifies; disperses blood stasis and relieves pain. Mainly used for sore throat, carbuncle, swelling and infection, trauma, redness, swelling and pain in joints

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoction, 6-15g. For external use: take appropriate amount, grind into powder and apply on the affected area.

[Discussions by various scholars] "Xinhua Compendium of Materia Medica": The whole herb has the functions of relieving fever, dispersing blood stasis and relieving pain.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

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