Dan Zhu Ye - Common Lophatherum Herb【New Wt: 100g】

NPN 80095494

【Macroscopic Features】Stem is cylindrical, 25~30cm long, 1.5~2mm diameter. Externally pale yellowish-green, joints have leaf sheaths; fractured surface has a hollow center. Leaves often wrinkled, lanceolate, 5~20cm long, 1~3.5cm wide; externally pale green or yellowish-green; parallel leaf veins with horizontal small veins, forming a long square lattice-like shape, which is obvious on lower surface. Leaf sheaths are about 5cm long, cracked open, with longitudinal lines on the exterior, and with white long soft hairs on the edge of leaf sheaths. Light, soft and pliable texture; faint odor; mild taste.

【Properties】 Sweet, tasteless; cold.

【Channels (meridians) entered】Stomach, Small Intestine.

【Functions】
Clears heat, drains fire, engenders fluid, stops thirst, expels pus, eliminates swelling. Apply to thirst due to heat, diabetes, jaundice, hemoptysis due to dryness of lung, swelling abscess, hemorrhoid fistula. As for apply to diabetes, often combined with medicinal material, which can nourish yin, to achieve the effect.