The underground centipede, also known as centipede grass, water centipede, inverted centipede, centipede grass, inverted qilin, underground centipede, and passing centipede, how can we buy genuine underground centipede in the market?
The underground centipede is a perennial herb with a plant height of 30-50cm. The rhizome is creeping and purple-red on the outside, white on the inside, with numerous fleshy roots (resembling a centipede, hence the name).
The leaf stalk is 20-30cm long and brown. The nutrient leaf is palmate and bird-foot shaped, herbaceous, hairless, usually tridentate, 15-25cm long, 20-25cm wide, consisting of a top feather and 12 pairs of lateral feathers. The base feather has a short stem, the central feather is elliptical to lanceolate, pointed at the tip, wedge-shaped at the base, with wavy small serrations or nearly entire margins, prominent main veins, and separate leaf veins, with 1-2 secondary forks.
The sporangial spike is solitary, growing from the middle of the leaf base, with a brown stem and a green spike. The sporangial capsule is axillary and cylindrical, with irregular crest-like protrusions at the top.
Morphological characteristics of the underground centipede: a perennial herbaceous plant. Creeping stem, purple-red, rhizome nearly cylindrical, horizontal, with obvious nodes, with root hairs on the nodes, thin and long stems. Leaves linear, soft and smooth green leaves. In summer and autumn, it produces pale green or white flowers in a terminal inflorescence, spherical, with three narrow and elongated leaf-like bracts, also known as three-pod grass.
1. Cough and asthma: Take 9g of underground centipede and 3g of licorice, decoct and take orally.
2. Sprains and internal injuries: Take an appropriate amount of underground centipede, grind it into powder, take 2g each time, and consume with rice wine or water.
Soak the underground centipede in child's feces for forty-nine days, wash it clean and air dry, then grind it into powder. Take six parts each time, consume with wine or water. (From "Guangxi Medicinal Plant Atlas")
3. Dysentery: Take 9g of fresh underground centipede, 20g of fresh purslane, mash them into juice, and drink with saltwater.
