High quality Rhizoma Imperata

Bai Mao root, the Chinese medicine name, is the grass family plant Bai Mao rhizome. The perennial plant, which grows on the roadside sunny dry grasslands or hillsides, is distributed in the northeast, east China, China-South Africa, southwest China, Shaanxi and Gansu. In Spring and autumn, dig, remove the above-ground parts and Scaly Leaf sheaths, wash, fresh or tie to dry. The rhizome of Puccinellia Tenuiflora is long cylindrical, 2-4 mm in diameter. Surface yellow-white or light yellow, with longitudinal wrinkles, obvious links, internodes 1 to 3 cm long. Body light, tough, fracture surface fibrous, yellow-white, many with radial cracks, sometimes a small hole can be seen in the center. Slight breath, slightly sweet taste. Take thick, white and sweet as the best. According to the different processing methods are divided into cogongrass root, cogongrass root charcoal, processed storage and drying containers, placed in a cool dry place. Baimao Root Treatment: Cooling blood to stop bleeding, clearing heat and detoxifying. For vomiting blood, urine blood, heat shower, edema, jaundice, urination adverse, fever, nausea and vomiting, cough.

Perennial plant. Rhizomes densely scaly. CULMS tufted, erect, 30-90 cm tall, with 2-3 nodes, nodes with 4-10 mm long pilose. Leaves clustered at base; leaf sheaths glabrous, or glabrous above and margin and Sheath Mouth Ciliate, base or broken fibrous when old; Ligule scarious, obtuse, Ca. 1 mm long; Leaf Blade Linear or linear-lanceolate, Apex Acuminate, base attenuate, root leaves long, the stem leaves are shorter than the plant. Panicles columnar, 5-20 cm long, 1.5-3 cm wide, densely branched; spikelets lanceolate or oblong, 3-4 mm long, base densely filiform pilose, with spikelets of varying lengths; glume equal or first glume slightly shorter, first Lemma ovate-oblong, ca. 1.5 mm long, apex obtuse, Palea absent except abaxially proximally herbaceous, margin Ciliate, abaxially sparsely filiform pilose, first glume narrower, with 3-4 veins, second glume wider, with 4-6 veins; Second Lemma Lanceolate, 1.2 mm long, apex pointed, both sides slightly denticulate; Palea ca. 1.2 mm long, ca. 1.5 mm wide, apex truncate, apically obtuse, several teeth different; Stamens 2, anthers yellow, Ca. 3 mm long; Stigma 2, dark purple. CARYOPSIS. Florescence summer, Autumn.

In Northern Africa, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Mediterranean region. Type Specimen from southern France. It is found in Henan, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Shaanxi, Xinjiang and other northern regions of China.