The efficacy and function of Tianmingjing

Tianmingjing is a common Chinese medicinal material with great health-care effects. It also has certain effects on some diseases. We need to choose it according to our own needs. Many people in life don’t know much about Tianming Jing. Let’s analyze Tianming Jing below.

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[Source] The roots, stems and leaves of the chrysanthemum plant Tianmingjing .

[Original form] Perennial herb, 30 to 100 cm tall, with a foul smell. The stem is erect, branched at the top and covered with fine soft hairs. The leaves at the lower part of the stem are alternate; slightly petiolate; the leaf blade is broadly elliptic or oblong, 10-15 cm long, 5-8 cm wide, pointed or obtuse at the apex, entire, or with irregular serrations, darker green and smooth above, with fine soft hairs and glandular dots below; the leaves at the upper part of the stem are nearly sessile; oblong, gradually becoming smaller upwards. There are many capitulums, axillary, nearly sessile, and sometimes drooping; the involucre is bell-shaped or slightly rounded, the outer bracts are slightly shorter and ovate, and the middle and inner bracts are oblong; the inflorescence is full of tubular flowers, yellow; the outer layer of the inflorescence is female flowers, with 3 to 5 teeth at the apex of the corolla, and the stigma is exposed after flowering; the central layers are bisexual flowers, with 4 to 5 teeth at the apex of the corolla, and both the stamens and pistils are exposed after flowering, the base of the anthers is arrow-shaped, the stigma is deeply lobed in 2, and the lobes are linear. Achenes are about 3 to 5 mm long, with multiple longitudinal grooves, a short linear beak at the top, and no pappus. Flowering period is from June to August. The fruiting period is from September to October.

[Habitat distribution] Growing in grass in mountains. Distributed in Henan, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Shaanxi and other places.

【Nature and flavor】Pungent, cold.

[entry into meridians] Enters the liver and lung meridians.

【Functions and indications】Expectorant, heat-clearing, blood-breaking, hemostasis, detoxification, and insecticidal. It is used to treat milk moth, throat congestion, malaria, acute hepatitis, acute and chronic convulsions, worm accumulation, blood clots, epistaxis, hematuria, carbuncle, sores, and itchy skin rashes.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water, 3 to 5 qian; mash into juice or make into pills or powder. For external use: mash and apply or decoct in water for fumigation and washing.

【Note】 ① "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Yuan Yi is its messenger."

[Additional prescription] ① For treating throat swelling and blockage, phlegm stagnation, and throat swelling and water that cannot be discharged: mash the Chinese cabbage into juice. Sweeping with a goose feather is the best way to remove phlegm. (Essentials of Treating Colds)

【Clinical application】 ①Treatment of acute icteric infectious hepatitis

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] 1. From "Tang Materia Medica": Tian Ming Jing, it is Lu Huo Cao. It tastes sweet and spicy, so it is called ginger, and it is shaped like blue, so it is called shrimp? It is blue and has a fragrance similar to orchid, hence the name toad orchid.

The above is an introduction to the Chinese medicinal material Tianmingjing. For medicinal herbs that we don't understand, we should learn more about them so that we can make full use of them in our lives and not be at a loss.