Lu Hua, the name of Chinese medicine. It is a grass reed. [Nanyang fir? (Cav。 ) Trin.]) flowers. Autumn harvest and drying. Born in shallow water on the banks of rivers and ponds, it is distributed in most parts of the country. Sweet in taste and cold in nature, it has the effects of stopping diarrhea, stopping bleeding and detoxifying. Commonly used for vomiting and diarrhea, epistaxis, bloody collapse, traumatic bleeding, fish and crab poisoning, dry cholera and chest pain.
Medicinal material characters
A complete spike consists of spikes, 20 ~ 30cm long. Leaf axils of lower stems are white pilose, grayish brown to purple. Spikelet length 1 .5 ~ 20mm, with 4 ~ 7 florets.1flower is usually male, and the rest are bisexual. The flattened glume is linear, lanceolate and unequal in length, and the length of glume 1 is half or more shorter than that of glume 2. Lemma with white pilose. Light weight. A slight breath, a faint taste.
Related exposition
1. Tang dynasty herbs: decoct thick juice, mainly for cholera.
2. "Materia Medica": Boiling thick juice, the main fish and crab are poisoned.
3. Compendium of Materia Medica: Burning ashes and blowing your nose, stopping bleeding, also entered the collapse of Chinese medicine.