Diding grass is distributed in Gansu, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong and other provinces in China. Diding grass can help inhibit virus activity in the human body. Today, let's learn about the introduction of Diding grass!
Picture of Diding grass
Diding grass is used as a whole herb for medicine. It has a bitter taste, cold nature, and a slight toxicity. It belongs to the spleen and heart meridians. The main production areas of Diding grass are Liaoning, Guizhou, and Hunan. According to experts, Diding grass has four major functions.
1. Diding grass has the effect of reducing swelling and detoxifying.
Diding can clear heat, detoxify, and reduce swelling. It has certain effects in relieving high fever and restlessness. It is effective for influenza, upper respiratory tract infections, tonsillitis, and mumps.
2. Diding grass has the effect of antibacterial and anti-inflammatory.
Modern pharmacology shows that Diding can treat bacterial infections such as enteritis, nephritis, hepatitis, acute appendicitis, conjunctivitis, dysentery, and other suppurative infections.
3. Diding grass has the effect of reducing swelling and relieving pain.
Diding has the function of reducing swelling and relieving pain for various infections. It can treat swelling, abscesses, breast abscesses, and carbuncles.
4. Diding grass has the effect of treating snake bites.
Take fresh Diding grass juice orally, or mix it with a little realgar and apply it externally.
People with weak and cold constitution should not take it.
Diding grass has several main roots, measuring 3-5 cm in length and 1-3 mm in diameter. The surface is wrinkled and rough, yellowish-brown in color, wavy and curved, with root marks.
The aboveground parts are dark green to green-yellow in color. The leaf stalks are slender and twisted. The leaves are extremely wrinkled. When soaked in hot water and spread out, they are elongated oval or linear-lanceolate in shape and covered with hair.
The flower stalk is slender, and the top often has a three-lobed capsule containing numerous seeds. The capsule is long spherical and light yellow-brown in color. It is brittle and fragile. It has a slight odor and a slightly bitter, astringent, and slightly sticky taste. The preferred ones are yellow-green in color, neat, and free from impurities.
