"Annual herb" dog tail grass can cure what disease? What's the point? What does that mean?

Friends who grew up in the countryside should be no stranger to dogtail grass, which looks like a weed. It is also called Alohan grass, barnyard grass, and dogtail grass. It is also a medicinal herb that can be picked in summer and autumn, washed and dried in the sun. What's wrong with that dogtail grass? What's the use? What does it mean?

Dogtail grass, alias Setaria angustifolia, is an annual herb of Gramineae and Setaria. The roots are whisker-shaped, and tall plants have supporting roots. Culms erect or base geniculate, 10-100 cm tall, base 3-7 mm in diameter. The leaf sheath is loose, glabrous or sparsely pilose or verrucous, with long dense woolly cilia on the edge; it has the effect of dispelling wind and eyesight, clearing heat and diuresis. Born in the wilderness and roadside below 4000 meters above sea level, it is a common weed for dryland crops.

What kind of disease can dog tail grass make?

According to traditional Chinese medicine, dogtail grass Ganping has the effect of clearing the liver and eyesight, diuresis and detoxification. It can be used for the treatment of conjunctivitis, vision loss, adverse urination and so on.

1. In the Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen believes that dogtail grass can cure warts and hair. Those who turn their eyelashes with red-eyed fists turn over the eye danger and dip one or two stems into the water to remove the evil blood.

2. In the Compendium of Materia Medica, it is also recorded that dogtail grass can treat furuncle ringworm. Tinea on the face, take the grass effect stem knead soft, rub it from time to time.

3. In Lu Chuan Materia Medica, it is said that dogtail grass can "remove moisture and reduce swelling." Treat yellow water sores.

4. Guizhou Folk prescription Collection: relieving fever and treating eye diseases. It is also used to treat hemp (wart).

5. "Chongqing Herbal Medicine": to cure eye diseases, tears and fog.

Generally speaking, dogtail grass has the effect of clearing heat and dampness, clearing liver and eyesight, detoxification and diuresis. It is mainly for the treatment of wind-hot cold, astringent pain in urination, astringent pain in the eyes, swelling and pain in the eyes, etc.

What's the use of dogtail grass?

1. Feed value

Dog tail straw, leaves can be used as feed, is a favorite plant for cattle, donkeys, horses and sheep. Autumn hay can also be used as fuel, fire, water, cooking, heating and making beds. Spikelets can extract furfural, the whole grass contains 2.6% crude fat, 10.27% crude protein, 34.55% nitrogen-free extract, 34.40% crude fiber, and 10.60% crude ash. After the whole grass is boiled with water for 20 minutes, the filtrate can spray and kill cabbage insects.

2. Medicinal value

Clearing heat and promoting dampness; dispelling wind and eyesight; detoxification; insecticidal. Main wind and fever cold; jaundice; infantile dysentery; astringent pain in urination; astringent pain in eyes; swelling and pain in eyes; carbuncle swelling; verruca vulgaris; ringworm.

What does dogtail grass mean?

Fancy language

The flower language of dogtail grass is stoic, unknown love, difficult love, and secret love, which is the representative of obscurity.

Moral meaning

Braided three dogtail grass into a braid, covered into one, according to the size of the finger, and then bent a circle to tie a knot, take it to the finger, on behalf of private life

Time: 2019-04-08 Click: