It is the dried above-ground part of the plant Channa spp. of the family Asteraceae, and is one of the commonly used Chinese medicines, which has the function of nourishing the liver, tonifying the kidney, cooling the blood and stopping bleeding. It has been found to have strong hepatoprotective effects and significant anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects.

Growing environment
Grows by rivers, fields or roadsides.
Distribution range
Produced in all provinces and regions of China. Widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of the world.
Alias
Dry lotus grass, black inkweed, wild sunflower, rotten feet grass, water dry lotus, lotus grass, white-flowered wedgewort, white-flowered millwort, inkweed, wild sunflower, inkweed, inkweed, and ocimum sanctum.

Characteristic
The whole body of this product is covered with white hairs. The stem is cylindrical, with longitudinal ribs, 2-5 mm in diameter; the surface is greenish brown or dark green. The leaves are opposite, subsessile, the leaf blade is crinkled and curled or broken, the complete one is long lance-shaped after spreading, entire or with shallow teeth, dark green. Achenes oval and flat, 2-3mm long, brown or light brown. The smell is faint and the taste is slightly salty.
The pieces are irregularly segmented. Stem cylindrical, surface greenish-brown or dark green, with longitudinal ribs, with white hairs, cut surface hollow or with white pith. Leaves are mostly crinkled or broken, dark green, densely white hairy, and when unfolded, the margins are seen to be entire or shallowly serrate. Heads. Slight odor, slightly salty taste.
Concoction
Remove impurities, wash slightly, cut into segments, and dry.
Mojirin contains a variety of active ingredients, and the isolated chemical components that have been reported are mainly triterpene saponins, flavonoids, various thiophene compounds, vanilloid ether compounds, steroids, etc.
Medicinal value
This product is the dried above-ground part of Ecliptaprostrata L., a plant in the family Asteraceae. It is harvested when the flowers are in bloom and dried in the sun.
Ecliptapapstrata L. is one of the raw materials of the Chinese patent medicine Erzhi Wan and Ginseng and Deer Tonic Cream. Modern pharmacological research has shown that Moringa and its extracts have a variety of pharmacological activities such as hemostasis and hepatoprotection, immunomodulation and anti-inflammation, as well as effects on the cardiovascular system. This product was first published in the "Qianjin Yuering", originally named Jinling Cao, and in the "Xinxiu Ben Cao", it was called Channa, "born in the lower wetlands. Seedlings look like spin, a lotus grass, where there are among the pits and ditches." In addition, "Tang Ben Cao", "Ben Cao Tu Jing", "Dian Nan Ben Cao", "Ben Cao Jing Shu", and "Dei Bei Ben Cao" have been recorded in the literature of the past generations.

[Taste and Attribution] Sweet, sour, cold. It belongs to the kidney and liver meridians.
[Functions and Indications] Nourishing the liver and kidney, cooling the blood and stopping bleeding. Used for Yin deficiency of liver and kidney, loose teeth, premature graying of beard and hair, dizziness and tinnitus, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, Yin deficiency and blood fever, vomiting blood, epistaxis, urinating blood, blood dysentery, bleeding from collapse and traumatic injury.
[Usage and Dosage] 6-12g.
Storage] In a ventilated and dry place.
Remarks
(1) The Chinese herbal medicine dry lotus herb has the difference between ink dry lotus and red dry lotus. Red dry lotus is the whole herb of HypericumascyronL. of the genus Hypericum in the family Hypericaceae.
 

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