Purple Pearl Leaf and Purple Pearl Grass can be easily confused by their names, and before this, many people might not have heard of them. Let's follow the editor to learn about the differences between Purple Pearl Leaf and Purple Pearl Grass!
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【Medicinal Differences between Purple Pearl Grass and Purple Pearl Leaf】
1. Purple Pearl Leaf
Purple Pearl Leaf is a plant of the Commelinaceae family, and the root and leaves of the Large Leaf Purple Pearl are used as medicine. The leaves are harvested in summer and autumn, washed and used fresh or dried and ground into powder. The roots can be harvested throughout the year, sliced, and dried.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Purple Pearl Leaf has the effects of cooling blood, astringing to stop bleeding, dispersing stasis, detoxifying, and reducing swelling. It is commonly used for hemorrhage, hemoptysis, hematemesis, bloody stools, menorrhagia, external bleeding, heat toxin sores, and scalds.
Purple Pearl Leaf is cool but not cold, and it also has the function of promoting blood circulation. Therefore, it can stop bleeding without leaving stasis, promote blood circulation without depletion, cool blood without stagnation. It is an excellent product for stopping bleeding and is widely used for various internal and external bleeding caused by different reasons.
It is particularly effective in treating bleeding caused by blood heat, especially bleeding in the digestive and respiratory tracts. Purple Pearl Leaf can stop bleeding and has a good therapeutic effect on diseases caused by blood heat in humans, such as bleeding in the digestive tract and respiratory tract.
2. Purple Pearl Grass
Purple Pearl Grass, also known as Purple Pearl or Hemostatic Herb, has a bitter and astringent taste, and it has a neutral nature. The leaves contain a hemostatic component called flavonoid condensed tannins, so it has the effects of stopping bleeding, promoting blood circulation, and reducing inflammation.
The injection made from the extract of Purple Pearl Grass can be used to treat gastrointestinal bleeding, surgical incision bleeding, and postoperative bleeding.
In addition to these, it also has the functions of clearing heat, detoxifying, and is commonly used to treat bleeding diseases and external bleeding in humans, as well as treating boils, swelling, and sore throat, which have particularly significant effects.
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【Physical Differences between Purple Pearl Grass and Purple Pearl Leaf】
1. Purple Pearl Leaf
Purple Pearl Leaf is often wrinkled and curled, and some are broken. The intact leaf is ovoid or elliptic, measuring 4 to 19 cm in length and 2.5 to 9 cm in width.
The apex is gradually pointed or blunt, and the base is wide and wedge-shaped or bluntly rounded. The edge has fine serrations, and near the base, it is entire. The upper surface of the Purple Pearl Leaf is grayish-green or brownish-green, covered with star-shaped hairs and short coarse hairs;
the lower surface is light green or light brownish-green, densely covered with yellow-brown star-shaped hairs and golden glandular dots. The main veins and lateral veins are prominent, and the minor veins extend to the tooth tip. The petiole is 0.5 to 1.5 cm long. It has a weak odor and a slightly bitter and astringent taste.
2. Purple Pearl Grass
The leaves of Purple Pearl Grass are opposite, and the leaflets are mostly elongated elliptical or lanceolate in shape. In summer and autumn, small purple flowers will bloom in the leaf axils of Purple Pearl Grass, and then they will develop into spherical fruits, which turn purplish-red when ripe.
Purple Pearl Grass prefers warmth and grows better in shady environments. In northern regions, when cultivating Purple Pearl Grass, it can be placed in a windward and sunny location.
The suitable temperature for the growth of Purple Pearl Grass is between 15°C and 25°C. When it is too cold in winter, some branches will freeze and die, and they can be pruned in the following year.
Purple Pearl Grass has strict requirements for moisture. It likes a moist environment but is afraid of drought. However, it should not be waterlogged.
【Image Differences between Purple Pearl Grass and Purple Pearl Leaf】
1. Image of Purple Pearl Leaf
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2. Image of Purple Pearl Grass
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