What to do if you get injured? Chinese herb Ya Song can promote wound healing. Ya Song is an annual herb, 5-30cm tall, growing on slopes or cliffs in valleys. The whole plant with roots is collected in spring or summer, washed, dried or used fresh.
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Chinese medicine believes that Ya Song has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, and it is mainly used to treat hot toxic abscesses, erysipelas, orchitis, burns, damp sores, bacterial dysentery, and amoebic dysentery.
In addition, Ya Song also has a sedative effect and can promote wound healing.
Treatment for children's erysipelas: 15g Ya Song, 9g Honeysuckle, Forsythia Suspensa, Isatis Indigotica, Dandelion, Cortex Moutan, Red Peony, and Herba Patriniae. Boil in water and take orally. ("Natural Medicinal Plants of Qinling and Bashan")
Treatment for orchitis: Appropriate amount of Ya Song. Crush and apply externally. ("Natural Medicinal Plants of Qinling and Bashan")
Ya Song is an annual herb with no hair on the whole body and has a fibrous root. The stem is solitary or clustered, 5-30 centimeters tall. Leaves are whorled, with 3-5 long oval spoon-shaped leaflets, 8-20 millimeters long, and 2-4 millimeters wide;
The apex is sharp, the base gradually narrows, the margin is entire, and the leaves are almost sessile or nearly sessile. Inflorescence is conical or umbellate, with long branches, and inflorescences also grow in leaf axils in the lower part, with sparse flowers;
Flower stalks are 5-8 millimeters long, slender; sepals are 5, narrowly triangular to lanceolate; petals are 5, white, rectangular or oval, stamens are 10, scales are wide spoon-shaped, with deep notches at the top;
The carpels are 5, nearly upright, the lower part is fused, and there are small papilla-like protrusions. When mature, the upper half is obliquely spreading, with a few tiny seeds.
