Baogai grass, also known as pearl lotus or bone-setting grass, has the medicinal properties of heat-clearing and dampness-eliminating, blood-activating and wind-dispelling, swelling-reducing and detoxifying. It can treat injuries, fractures, and other diseases. Let's learn more about the efficacy and usage of Baogai grass below!
【Morphological Characteristics of Baogai Grass】
1. Root: cylindrical, thin, with a light brown surface.
2. Stem: erect or creeping, with branching at the base, 4-sided, with shallow grooves, purple or deep blue. It has short hairs when young, which gradually fall off. The plant is 10-30cm tall.
3. Leaves: round or kidney-shaped, 0.5-2cm long, 1.2-2.5cm wide, with a rounded apex, truncate or cordate base, and deep rounded teeth or shallow lobes on the edges. Both sides have sparse rough hairs. Lower leaves have long petioles, while upper leaves are almost sessile and semi-clasping the stem.
4. Flowers: umbel inflorescence with 6-10 flowers, almost stalkless. The ovary is hairless. The stigma is shallowly 2-lobed.
5. Fruits: small achene, inversely ovate or inversely ovate-triangular, with 3 ribs, 2mm long, 1mm wide, light grayish-yellow, with large white wart-like protrusions on the surface.
6. Seeds: 0.5-1mm long.
【Medicinal Uses of Baogai Grass】
1. Treatment for injuries, foot injuries, and red swelling that prevents walking.
Baogai grass, hemp root, and great burdock. Crush them together with egg white and honey, and apply to the affected area. Change it once a night. If there is persistent pain, add green onion and ginger before applying.
2. Treatment for lymph node tuberculosis:
One or two sprouts of Baogai grass, and two eggs, stir-fry them together for consumption.
Two to three taels of Baogai grass, and two to three eggs. Boil them together, remove the shells after the eggs are cooked, and continue boiling for half an hour. Eat the eggs and drink the soup.
Two taels of fresh Baogai grass. Crush and extract the juice, then boil the juice and consume it. Take it once every other day, and repeat for three to four times.
3. Treatment for facial paralysis and hemiplegia:
Baogai grass, Saposhnikovia divaricata, Chinese knotweed, and Houttuynia cordata. Decoct them in water, mix with equal parts of water and wine, and consume.
