Dragon's Beard Grass: A Medicinal Herb with Various Healing Properties

December 30, 2023

Dragon's beard grass, a medicinal herb, is the whole plant of the Lycopodium clavatum in the Lycopodiaceae family. It is mainly used to clear heat, detoxify, diuretic, and relieve pain. Let's take a look at its growth environment and medicinal uses together!


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Distribution of Dragon's beard grass

Dragon's beard grass grows in grasslands, roadsides, under forests, hillsides, and slopes.

Dragon's beard grass is distributed in the northeast, north China, northwest, and east China, including Shandong and Jiangsu provinces.

Functions and Indications of Dragon's beard grass

Dragon's beard grass is diuretic, relieves heat, and calms the mind. It is used to treat dysuria with redness and pain, heat diuresis, nephritis edema, dizziness, toothache, nosebleeds, sore throat, restlessness, insomnia, diabetes, and nocturnal emission.

① "Yin Pian Xin Can": "Clears damp-heat, diuretic."

② "Anhui Medicinal Materials": "Eliminates damp-heat, dispels wind-fire, stops bleeding. Used for gout, nosebleeds, hemorrhage, frequent and short urination, sore throat, earache, nocturnal emissions."

③ "Compilation of Medicinal Material Data": "Used for oral inflammation and toothache."

④ "Frequently Used Traditional Chinese Herbs in Zhejiang": "Clears heat and calms the mind."

⑤ "Commonly Used Chinese Medicinal Herbs in Shanghai": "Used for difficult urination, urinary tract heat and pain, nephritis edema, insomnia, palpitations, restlessness."

Selected Medicinal Formulas of Dragon's beard grass

① Treatment of urinary tract infection: Dragon's beard grass and water plantain each 30 grams, Poria cocos 9 grams; or Dragon's beard grass, small thistle grass, cranberry each 30 grams, white grass root 60 grams. Decoction and take orally.

② Treatment of insomnia and neurasthenia: Fresh Dragon's beard grass 60 grams, nocturnal vine 30 grams, Salvia miltiorrhiza 15 grams. Decoction and take orally.

③ Treatment of diabetes: Dragon's beard grass 60 grams, deer antler grass 30 grams. Decoction and take orally.

⑤ Treatment of dysuria: Dragon's beard grass 6-9 grams. Decoction and take orally.

⑥ Treatment of yellow water sores: Dragon's beard grass spike 15 grams, cicada slough 6 grams. Decoction and take orally.

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