Selaginella jiuyangcao

Herba Selaginellae belongs to Selaginella tamariscina Spring pteridophyte of Selaginellaceae, also known as Nine Dead Resurrection Grass. Roots can separate themselves from the soil, curl up like fists, move with the wind, and be proud of meeting water, and then drill into the soil again to find water. Because of its strong drought resistance, after a long drought, as long as the roots are soaked in water, they can stretch again, hence the name. The form of Selaginella Selaginella tamariscina Spring or Selaginella puluinata. Selaginella is a perennial herb, with a height of 5 ~ 18 cm, the main stem is erect, often single, and many fibrous roots are attached to the stem; The upper wheel legend says that there is a glittering Tianchi Lake on Kunlun Mountain, where the Queen Mother bathes. On the bank of Tianchi Lake, there is a kind of fairy grass, which can bring back the dead. There was a year of drought and plague among the people, and thousands of people died. The Dragon Lady who lived in Tianchi Lake was very sympathetic when she saw the disaster. She secretly brought the fairy grass on the shore of Tianchi Lake to the world to cure the people and save all beings. Thousands of dead people actually came back to life. When the Dragon King knew this, he was furious and laid the Dragon Lady down in a rage. After the dragon lady came to the world, she was willing to become a resurrection grass and save all beings. Resurrection grass has strong vitality, and it grows again after being dried in water, hence its name.

A valuable medicinal material called "Rejuvenation Grass" which can cure falls and injuries grows on the cliffs and dry rock crevices in the deserted barren hills. Its vitality is strong, and it grows again after being dried in water, hence the name rejuvenation grass. This kind of plant is very strange. When it is dry, its branches and leaves curl up, and the plant becomes scorched and enters a state of "suspended animation". When it gets rain and the temperature is suitable, it absorbs a lot of water, stretches its branches and leaves, and "wakes up". Because it is difficult to keep water in the dry cliff, it has to go through many times of "dead" and "resurrection" to grow and multiply, so it is called "nine dead resurrection grass" It grows on the rocky mountain with sharp edges and corners, and even the tenacious moss is difficult to grow. Naturally, it is not easy to get it.

Jiujiuhuancao

Water is the source of life, and there are different amounts of water in various plants. The water content of aquatic plants is the highest, reaching 98%; The water content of herbs is not low, about 7% ~ 8%; The water content of woody plants is less, also 4% ~ 5%; Plants living in desert areas have little water content, only 16%. If it is lower than this percentage, the protoplasm in these plant cells will be destroyed and die.

However, there is a plant whose water content has dropped below 5%, and it has almost become "hay", but it can still maintain its life. There has been such a thing. Someone made the whole plant into a dried specimen and put it in the plant classification specimen cabinet. A few years later, this hay accidentally fell into the pool. When it was discovered the next day, people were surprised to see that it spread all its branches and leaves and became full of vitality.

This peculiar plant is the famous "resurrection grass from the dead".

Jiujiuhuancao is a perennial herbaceous fern, which is called Selaginella. It is about 5 ~ 15 cm high, the main stem is upright, and the top is clustered with branchlets, which are fan-shaped and light green. It has a strong ability to resist drought. When the weather is particularly dry, its branches and leaves roll up and shrink into a ball like a boxer, and the plants become withered and scorched, as if they were dead. In fact, this is a kind of "suspended animation". Once it gets water, it will drink water desperately, and the curled branches and leaves will spread out again, and its vitality will gradually emerge, and it will come back to life. In this way, Selaginella may come back from the dead three times and five times. For this reason, it is also called long-lived grass, immortal grass and long-lived grass.

The mystery of the extraordinary "rejuvenation" ability of the Nine Dead Resurrection Grass lies in the "improvisation" of its cells. When the drought comes, its whole body cells are in a dormant state, and its metabolism almost stops. Like death, the whole body cells will return to normal physiological activities after getting water.

speaking of it, this ability of the nine dead resurrection grass is also forced by the environment. It grows on sunny slopes or crevices in rocks, where the soil is barren and the water storage capacity is poor. Its water source for growth depends almost entirely on the rain falling from the sky. In order to survive without rain for a long time, it was forced to practice this "skill".

Nine Death Resurrection Grass is widely distributed in China. It can be used for both ornamental and medicinal purposes, and the whole grass has hemostatic and astringent effects. Folk burn the whole plant to ashes, which can treat all kinds of hemorrhage by oral administration, and can treat all kinds of knife wounds by mixing with vegetable oil for external use. It is said that it is still a beauty medicine. After grinding, it can be applied with egg white to make the face smooth.

In South America, there are also similar species of Nine Death Resurrection Grass, but the similar species there are more capable, and they can not only fake their deaths in situ. Waiting for the water to come back to life, but also taking the initiative to leave the growing place to find a new home with water. In the dry season, the nine dead rejuvenation grass there will break free from the soil itself, and then the whole body will be rolled into a ball, and the grass ball will roll forward with the wind. If it meets a watery place, the grass ball will unfold into its original state and take root in the soil. Naturally, when the water is scarce and it stays unsatisfied in its new home, it will once again leave home and wander about.

The scientific name of Jiujiu Huanshen Grass is Selaginella, also known as Evergreen and Evergreen Grass. It is a perennial erect herbaceous fern with a height of 5-l5cm, clustered branchlets at the top, fan-shaped branches, spreading radiation, flat, light green, rolling like a fist when dry (called "iron fist" in our local area) and brown stems. It is a perennial herb flower of Selaginella of Selaginellaceae. The ventral leaves are obliquely upward, not juxtaposed, oval-oblong, and slightly toothed at the edge. Sporangium spikes are born at the top of branches, quadrangular, cotyledons ovate-triangular, and ascomycetes are kidney-shaped. Born in a rock crevice at an altitude of 8 meters, Xi is distributed in a few provinces and regions in China. As an indoor miniature bonsai, Huanshencao is evergreen all the year round, shaped like a golden pine mountain, and has a very high ornamental value.

Selaginella Selaginella is an anti-inflammatory and hemostatic drug, which is often used to treat hemoptysis, hematemesis, hematochezia, rectocele, menorrhagia, metrorrhagia, amenorrhea, rheumatalgia, traumatic bleeding, cold, epistaxis, blood collapse and other diseases. Selaginella Selaginella dry powder is applied to the navel of the baby to diminish inflammation and stop bleeding, and the effect is very good. Selaginella has a cosmetic effect. Blending and applying it to the face with dry powder and egg white can make the face smooth and beautiful. Selaginella Selaginella has the function of strengthening yin and nourishing essence. It is a magical Chinese herbal medicine for traumatic bleeding, a primitive landscape plant, which can be used for both ornamental and medicinal purposes. It is a rare immortal herbal medicine, ensuring the survival rate of cultivation after soaking.

From the synonyms of Selaginella Selaginella, it can be seen that the Southern Yunnan Materia Medica calls it huiyangcao, the Compendium of Materia Medica calls it immortal grass, the Classified Herbs call it rejuvenation grass, the Modern Practical Chinese Medicine calls it nine dead rejuvenation grass, and the Jian Jiang Handbook of Chinese Medicine calls it water rejuvenation grass. How can Selaginella come back from the dead and live forever? The dried plants will survive! Dead wood germinates when it meets water! As long as the dry products of Huanqingcao are soaked in water and cultivated, it will come back to life. Huanqingcao is so magical.

if it is cultivated in a pot, it will be a good bonsai of evergreen pine! It can be used to decorate rockeries and large bonsai, which can greatly improve the ornamental value. Put it in your home, it is the life witness of your life's joys and sorrows! It is a good gift, because it is a symbol of happiness as the East China Sea/Longevity as the South Mountain!

Selaginella does have tenacious drought resistance. A biologist in Japan once found that a plant specimen made of Selaginella, after 11 years, was immersed in water, and it was "revived" and revived.

Selaginella in America is even more peculiar. It can shrink into a ball in drought and roll with the wind. When it meets water, it stretches and begins to grow, and when it lacks water, it begins to travel again, so it is also called "traveling plants". Alias leopard's foot, seeking shares, devoting time to god, handing in time, lotus flower, huiyangcao, immortal grass, immortal grass, perennial pine, evergreen grass, stone flower, rejuvenation grass, nine-dead rejuvenation grass, water-seeing rejuvenation grass, fingered citron, evergreen, tiger's paw, cypress, immortal, iron fist, rock pine and cypress leaf. Ground grass

This product is the dried whole grass of Selaginella tamariscina Spring or Selaginella pulvinata Maxim. of Selaginellaceae. It can be harvested all year round, removing fibrous roots and sediment, and drying in the sun.

preparation method

Selaginella: remove residual fibrous roots and impurities, wash, cut into sections and dry in the sun.

Selaginella Selaginella charcoal: clean Selaginella Selaginella and fry it according to the charcoal frying method (Appendix II D) until the surface is burnt black.

Characteristics

Selaginella Selaginella: This product curls like a fist and is 3 ~ 1 cm long. Branches are clustered, flat and branched, green or brownish yellow, curled inward, with dense scaly leaflets on the branches, long awns at the apex of leaves, two rows of middle leaves (ventral leaves), oval and oblong, obliquely arranged upward, membranous at the leaf margin and irregular serrations. The membranous edge of the dorsal lobe (lateral lobe) is often brownish black. Brown to brown fibrous roots remain at the base, which are scattered or aggregated to form short stems. Brittle and easy to break. Odorless, tasteless.

Selaginella cushion: fibrous roots are scattered. The middle lobe (ventral lobe) is in two rows, ovate-lanceolate, and arranged straight up. The left and right sides of the blade are unequal, the inner edge is flat, and the outer edge is often thickened due to internal folding, showing a whole edge.

identify 2g of this product powder, add 5ml of methanol, heat and reflux for 1h, filter, evaporate the filtrate to dryness, and add 3ml of anhydrous ethanol to dissolve the residue, which will be used as the test solution. In addition, 2g of Selaginella Selaginella control medicinal material was taken and prepared into control medicinal material solution by the same method. According to the test of thin-layer chromatography (Appendix ⅵ b), absorb 3μl of the above two solutions, respectively spot them on the same silica gel G thin-layer plate with sodium carboxymethylcellulose as adhesive, use isopropanol-concentrated ammonia test solution-water (13: 1: 1) as developing agent, unfold them, take them out, dry them in the air, spray 2% aluminum trichloride methanol solution, and examine them under an ultraviolet lamp (365nm). In the chromatogram of the test sample, fluorescent spots with the same color appear at the positions corresponding to the chromatogram of the control medicinal materials.

the nature and taste are pungent and flat. Liver and heart meridian.

the function is mainly to promote blood circulation and dredge channels. Used for amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea. Bump, fall injury. Selaginella charcoal removes blood stasis and stops bleeding. Used for hematemesis, metrorrhagia, hematochezia and proctoptosis.

usage and dosage: 4.5 ～9g.

pay attention to pregnant women with caution.

store in a dry place.

extract from China Pharmacopoeia.