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What is the hemp fiber of courtiers (dialect)

Chinese name: Euphorbia humifusa.

Alias of Central Plains: Blood Sorrow, Red Silk Grass, Milk Grass, Sparrow Hemp Fiber, Oviposition Grass, Sparrow Oviposition Grass, Bug Oviposition Grass, Turtle Nest, etc.

Source: This product is the dried whole grass of Euphorbia humifusa. Or Euphorbia maculata of Euphorbiaceae. Harvesting in summer and autumn, removing impurities and drying in the sun.

Identification: The powder of this product is green and brown. The outer wall of leaf epidermal cells is papillary. In mesophyll tissue, the cells around the end of veinlets are arranged in a radial ring. Non-glandular hairs have 3 ~ 8 cells with a diameter of about 65438 04 μ m, most of which are broken. Small flaky starch granules can be seen in the annular duct.

Processing: removing impurities, spraying clean water, slightly wetting, cutting into sections and drying in the sun.

Efficacy and function:

1, clearing away heat and toxic materials.

2, treatment of bleeding, can treat hemoptysis, vomiting blood, treating blood cough, treating gold sore bleeding, treating hematochezia, treating functional uterine bleeding, and treating tooth bleeding.

3, yellowing, in addition to product. Treat infantile malnutrition, treat spleen strain jaundice, treat damp-heat jaundice and so on.

4, promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals, treating breast obstruction, treating wind sores and scabies.

Extended data:

Physiological characteristics:

1, Parthenocissus tricuspidata often shrinks and curls with small roots. The stem is thin, forked, with purplish red surface, smooth hairless or sparse white fluff; Crispy, yellow and white in section, hollow. Simple leaves opposite, red short peduncle or few peduncle; After flattening, most of the leaves shrink into a rectangle. Green or purplish red, usually glabrous or sparsely villous; The apex is blunt, the base is oblique, and the edge is serrated or microwave-like.

2. There is erythema on the upper surface of the leaves of Parthenocissus tricuspidata. There is erythema on the upper surface of leaves, and the capsule is sparsely white pubescent.

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