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Scientific name: herbbascutellariaebarbatae
Alias: Toothbrush grass, narrow leaf Han Xin grass, Creek side yellow sheep, Sifang Malan, duotou grass, Wang Jiangqing
Plant morphology:
Annual or perennial herbs. Flowering in spring; flowers axillary, racemes growing at branch end; flowers blue. Late summer results; small nuts, oval. The lower part of the stem is mottled, and the upper part is upright, with four prisms. Leaves opposite, short-handled or sessile; leaf blade ovate to auricle needles, long 1 - 3cm, width 0. - 1.5cm. Umbrella inflorescence terminal, integrated racemose side racemes, upper lip back with shield-like appendage, corolla light blue-purple. The small nuts are oval in shape and are contained in a cake.
Growth habits:
Born on a hillside meadow or damp place, warm and chill, resistant to drought and barren.
Uses: can be used as medicine.
Collecting place: Chengdu city lotus pond Chinese medicinal material market.
Source: A dry whole plant for the Lamiaceae plant Scutellaria barbata D. Don.
Medicinal properties:
5-35cm long, glabrous or sparsely hairy. Slim. Stems clustered, thin, square-shaped; surface dark purple or brown green. Leaves opposite, shortly stalked; leaves often shrinking, triangular or lanceolate after flattening, 1.5--3 cm long, apex obtuse, base broadly cuneate, entire or with few inconspicuous blunt teeth; upper surface Dark green, grayish green underneath. The flowers are solitary in the upper leaf axils of the stem, and the bracts of the calyx are blunt or round; the corolla is 2-lip-shaped, brown-yellow or light-blue-purple, long-red-red 1.2 cm, and covered with hair. Fruit flat spherical, light brown. Gas slightly, bitter taste.
Indications:
Qingrejiedu, Huayu diuretic. For acne swollen poisoning, sore throat, snake bites, flu or pain, edema, jaundice.
Growth habits: warm, chilly and resistant to drought
