Nicknames: Ear Sound Grass, White Hemp, Abutilon Grass, Earthling Shield, Stone Grinding Grass, Grinding Grass, Grinding Barrier Grass
Harvesting and processing: Harvested in summer and autumn, chopped and dried.
Medicinal parts: whole plant or root
Origin: Produced in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places
Family: Malvaceae, Abutilon genus
Original plant: Grinding disc grass
Plant condition: Annual or perennial erect subshrubs like herbaceous plants
1-2.5m high. Branches are numerous, and the entire plant is covered in gray short hairs.
Mutual growth of leaves; The petiole is 2-4cm long, covered with gray short hairs and filamentous long hairs; Torpedo shaped, outward curved; The leaves are oval or nearly round, measuring 3-9cm in length and 2.5-7cm in width. The tips are short or gradually pointed, and the base is heart-shaped. Both sides are covered with star shaped soft hairs; The edges have irregular serrations.
The flowers are solitary in the leaf axils, with flower stalks up to 4cm long and nodes near the top, covered in gray star shaped soft hairs; Calyx discoid, green, 6-10mm in diameter, densely covered with gray soft hairs, lobes 5, broadly ovate, apex short pointed; Flower yellow, diameter 2-2.5cm, petals 5, length 7-8mm; The stamen column is covered with star shaped hairs; Heart bark 15-20, wheel shaped, style 5, stigma head shaped.
The fruit is inverted circular like a grinding disc, with a diameter of about 1.5cm, black in color, divided into 15-20 lobes, with a truncated tip, short awn, and covered with star shaped long hairs. Seed kidney shaped, sparsely covered with star shaped soft hairs. The flowering period is from July to October, and the fruiting period is from October to December.
Characteristics of Grinding Plate Grass Pieces: Identification of Characteristics: The main stem of the whole plant is about 2cm thick, with branches, and the outer skin has grid like wrinkles. It is light gray brown like powder and feels smooth when touched. The leaves are wrinkled, light green in color, with a light yellow brown color on the back, covered in short hairs, and are relatively flexible and not easily broken when twisted by hand. Sometimes there are flowers or fruits in the axils of the leaves. Qi Wei.
Grinding disc herbal properties:
【 Taste 】 Sweet; Light; Sexual coolness
[Guijing] Lung; Kidney meridian
【 Indications 】 Relieve wind and clear heat; Resolving phlegm and relieving cough; Reduce swelling and detoxify. Main cold; Fever; cough Diarrhea; tympanitis; deaf; Pharyngitis; Mumps; urinary tract infection; Ulcer, abscess, swelling and toxin; Falling injury
[Usage and Dosage] Oral administration: decoction, 30-60g; Or stew meat. External use: appropriate amount, massage and apply; Or boil and fumigate.
【 Attention 】 Pregnant women should take it with caution.
【 Appendix 】 Treatment of allergic measles: Grind dried whole grass for one or two days, appropriate amount of lean pork, and take gently with water. (Xiamen "New Therapies and Selected Chinese Herbal Medicines")
【 Discussions from Various Schools 】
1. "Essential preparations for herbal medicine": dispersing wind and blood heat. Tinnitus, deafness, and meat consumption are also acceptable.
2. "Seeking the Origin of Materia Medica": Strengthen the spleen, stop diarrhea, and cook yellow sugar food with rice.
3. "Lingnan Medicinal Collection Record": It can enhance clarity and reduce turbidity, open the orifices and promote blood circulation, and also save hands and sores.
4. "Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine" II: Treatment of small intestine pain, residual kidney deficiency, painful stools or cloudy urine, parotitis, bone steaming and heat exhaustion.
5. The "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines" for the Guangzhou Army: Relieve wind and clear heat, enhance clarity and reduce turbidity. Treating cold, high fever, mumps, deafness, tinnitus, thyroid enlargement, and nocturnal emissions.