What Is Centella Asiatica?

Centella asiatica, the name of Chinese medicine, is the dried whole grass of Centella asiatica. Bitter, hard, cold. It has the effects of clearing away heat and dampness, detoxifying and swelling. It is commonly used for hot and humid jaundice, heatstroke diarrhea, stone hemorrhage, edema, sore, and flutter injury.

Chinese scientific name: Centella
nickname: Evening money, calla, broken coin grass
boundary: Plant kingdom
door: Angiosperm
Tsuna: Dicotyledoneae
Head: Umbellifera

Branch: Umbelliferae
Genus: Centella
Species: Centella
distribution area: Southwest and Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Sichuan, Guangdong, etc.
Harvest time: Summer and Autumn
Amount: 15 30g
Poisonous: Non-toxic

Centella Asiatica

Plant's dry whole grass.

Centella Asiatic

Bitter, spicy and cold.

Centella asiatica

Return to liver, spleen and kidney.

Centella Asiatica

Clear heat and dampness, detoxify and swell.

Centella Asiatica

Damp-heat jaundice, heatstroke diarrhea, stone gonorrhea, edema, sore, and flutter injury.

Centella Asiatica compatible

1. Toothache and ear plugging: Use lianus chinensis (ie, Centella asiatica) to smash with the gutter sludge, and plug into the ear with left and right. ("Zhi Xuan Fang")

2, swollen fever poison: after the fall to collect even grass. Yingan is the last. Apply it with water. Health can also be pounded. (Kou Shi Yanyi)

Centella Asiatica dosage

15 ~ 30g.

How to make Centella Asiatica

Remove impurities, wash, cut into sections, and dry.

This product has irregular segments. The roots are cylindrical and the surface is pale yellow or grayish yellow. Stems are thin, yellow-brown, with fine longitudinal wrinkles, and nodes are visible, often with fibrous roots. The leaves are mostly shrunken and broken, and the intact ones are nearly round or kidney-shaped when flattened, gray-green, with coarse blunt teeth on the edges, and short umbrellas. The double hanging fruits are oblate, with prominent raised edges and fine netting. Light-hearted and light.

Physiological Characteristics of Centella Asiatica

Centella Asiatica, perennial, stalk grapes, slender, rooting at nodes, glabrous or slightly hairy. Often rolled into lumps. The root is cylindrical, 2 100px long, 1 1.5mm in diameter; the surface is light yellow or grayish yellow. The stem is slender and curvy, yellow-brown, with fine longitudinal wrinkles, and often bears hairy roots on the nodes. The leaves are mostly shrunken and broken. The intact ones are flat or round or kidney-shaped when flattened, with a diameter of 1 to 100 px; gray-green, with coarse blunt teeth at the edges; the petiole is 3 to 150 px long and twisted. Umbellate axillary, short. The double-suspended fruit is oblate, with prominent raised edges and fine reticulation, and the fruit stalk is very short. Light-hearted and light. It is often born in open places, roadsides, ditch edges, and other humid places. It likes sunshine and a humid environment.

Centella Asiatica

Distributed in Southwest and Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hubei, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

Centella asiatica

1. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Research juice, point out the red eyes, good." ^[1]

2. "Shen Nong's Materia Medica": "The main fever is malignant sores, gangrene, soaking, red skin, red skin, and body heat."

3. "Tang Bencao": "Pound the fever and erysipelas."

4. "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "Treats noonday hot flashes, dizziness, fear of coldness, limb soreness, tasteless diets, men and women suffocating, those who are overworked and feverish, used to urinate and buffalo beef.

5. "Medicine Theory": "To cure mole leaks, to communicate between cold and hot seasons."

6. "Materia Medica seeking the original": "In addition to heat poison, cure white turbidity, dip scabies, and manage small intestinal qi."

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