The efficacy and function of purple back grass root

As a traditional Chinese medicine, purple back grass root has great medicinal value and can treat many diseases. Let’s take a closer look at it below.

[Source] Medicinal material source: The root of Senecio purpurogenum of the Asteraceae family.

[Original form] Purple-backed Senecio is a perennial herb, 20-70cm tall. There are many fibrous roots, and the rhizome is obliquely ascending with coarse fibrous roots. Stem solitary or in clusters of 2-3, erect, cylindrical, few branches. There are many basal leaves, clustered and flat on the ground, with petioles about 2 cm long; the leaf blades are spoon-shaped, obovate or obovate-lanceolate, 7-12 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, obtuse at the apex, cuneate at the base, extending downward into narrow wings, with irregular coarse teeth or wavy notches on the margins, dark green above, green or purple-red below, hairy when young, falling off or nearly hairless when old, with obvious veins; stem leaves are alternate, with smaller and fewer leaf blades than basal leaves, and almost sessile. Inflorescence, arranged in cymes, terminal; involucre short campanulate, bracts in 1 row, imbricately arranged; bracteoles linear; receptacle flat, with 1 row of ligulate flowers on the periphery, yellow, female, ligules oblanceolate, 3-fissured at apex, tubular at base; pistil 1, ovary inferior, style single, not longer than corolla tube, pappus numerous, as long as corolla; tubular flowers numerous, corolla yellow, 6mm long, tube length 2.5mm, long and narrow funnel-shaped, bisexual, swollen at upper part, 5-fissured at apex; stamens 5, anther fused, filaments divided; pistil 1, ovary inferior, style single, extending beyond the anther, stigma 2-pronged; tubular flowers with numerous pappus on the outside, about half the length of corolla. Achenes are cylindrical, 2mm long, and pubescent; the pappus is pale white and about 5mm long. Flowering period is summer.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Grown on hillsides, in the shade and wet places of grass at the edge of forests.

【Nature and flavor】 Bitter; pungent; cold; slightly toxic

【Functions and indications】 Clears away heat and detoxifies; disperses blood stasis and stops bleeding. Mainly used for stranguria caused by heat; sores; burns; eczema; traumatic injuries; internal and external traumatic bleeding

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: grind into powder, 1-1.5g. For external use: Take appropriate amount, grind into powder and apply on the affected area.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

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