Medicinal value of Copper Hammer Jade Belt Grass

The copper hammer jade belt grass is also called green bean grass, screen grass, ground duckweed grass, small copper hammer, ground button, ground button, etc. It is mainly distributed in Northwest China, South China, East China, Hunan Province, Hubei Province and other places. Copper Hammer Jade Belt Grass is a commonly used Chinese herbal medicine. Its main functional value lies in dispelling wind, removing dampness, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and removing toxins. It has a good therapeutic effect on rheumatic pain, irregular menstruation, red and swollen eyes, mastitis and other diseases.

The shape characteristics of copper hammer jade belt grass

A perennial herb with milky white juice. The stem is procumbent, 12 to 55 cm long, covered with continuous soft hairs, without branches or with long or short branches at the tip, and roots grow at the nodes. The leaves are symbiotic, ovate, cordate or ovate, 0.8-1.6 cm long, 0.6-1.8 cm wide, obtuse or acute at the apex, obliquely cordate at the tip, with incisors on the edges, sparsely covered with short soft hairs on both sides, petioles palmate to palmately pinnately veined; leaf stems 2-7 mm long, covered with short soft hairs. The flowers are solitary on a petiole; the petiole is 0.7-3.5 cm long and glabrous; the calyx is tubular, 3-4 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, glabrous, the lobes are linear-lanceolate, straight, 3-4 mm long, with 2 or 3 small teeth on each side; the corolla is dark purple, light purple, emerald green or yellowish white, 6-7 (10) mm long, the corolla tube is glabrous on the outside, with soft hairs on the inside, the eaves are bicuspidate, with 5 lobes, the 2 lobes of the upper lip are linear-lanceolate, and the lobes of the lip are lanceolate; the pistil is united above the middle of the filaments, the filament tube is glabrous, the anther tube is more than 1 mm in diameter, with soft hairs on the back, and the tops of the 2 anthers below are bearded. The fruit is dark purple, oval-spherical, 1 to 1.3 cm long. The seeds are mostly spherical, slightly flattened, and have small tubercles on the surface. In tropical climates, it can bear fruit throughout the year.

The role and efficacy of copper hammer jade belt grass

It can dispel wind, clear heat, remove dampness, promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis and eliminate toxins. Treat rheumatic pain, bruises, mastitis, and unknown swelling.

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