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drug nameLalang Grass Rhizome
[Variety Source]

This product is the rhizome of the grassy perennial herbaceous plant Imperata (Imperata cylindrica Beauv. var. major (Nees) C. E. Hubb.). Produced in most parts of the country. Excavate in spring and autumn, wash and dry in the sun. Remove the fibrous roots and membrane sheaths, cut into sections, and use raw or stir-frying to scorch.

[Property]

sweet, cold. act on lung, stomach and bladder channels.

[Efficacy]

cooling blood and stopping bleeding, clearing away heat and diuresis.

[Indications]

  1. It is used for hemorrhagic syndrome caused by blood-heat disorder, such as hemoptysis, hematemesis, epistaxis, hematuria, etc. This product can clear the heat of the lungs, stomach and bladder, cool blood and stop bleeding. Can be used alone or with other blood-cooling hemostatics.
  2. For heat stranguria, edema, etc. This product can clear away heat and diuresis, and cure heat stranguria. It can be used with Akebia Stem, Talc, etc., such as Shengji Zonglu Maogen Drink; it can cure edema and urination. Unfavorable, it can be used with Plantain Seed or the like.
  3. In addition, this product can also treat warm-heat polydipsia, stomach heat vomiting, lung heat cough and dampness-heat jaundice, etc.

[Documentation]

  1. Bielu: "The lower five stranguria can remove heat in the intestines and stomach, quench thirst... women have metrorrhagia."
  2. Bencaozheng Yi: "lalang grass Rhizome, cold and cool, has a very sweet taste. It can clear away the heat in the blood without hurting the dryness and is not sticky. Therefore, it can cool the blood without worrying about the accumulation of blood stasis. It is mainly used for vomiting epistaxis and hematemesis, which is the practice of heat therapy. It's very effective."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoction and take, 15-30g, double the amount of fresh product, fresh product is better, you can make juice and take it. It is used for many times. It can also be used to stop bleeding and stir-frying to scorch.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains Imperata, Arunthin, 5-hydroxytryptamine, potassium, calcium, etc. Decoction has diuretic effect; and has procoagulant effect. The decoction has a grade I inhibitory effect on dysentery bacilli such as sonnei and dysentery freundii, and has an antipyretic effect.

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