Does Tianqingdibaicao have the effect of treating colds?

Tianqingdibaicao is not called by only this name in life. There are many other names, such as Mao Nv'ercai and Qingmingcao. These are all its names. It is a kind of herbal medicine belonging to the herb family. Clinically, it has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, clearing the liver and improving eyesight, and promoting bowel movements and urination. It also has the effects of treating dizziness, headache, cough, nausea, hot urination, etc. caused by colds. The main method of use is to decoct in water or mash it into juice for external application. These are all relatively useful.

【 Drug name 】Tianqingdibai

[ Drug alias ] Hairy daughter vegetable, Qingming grass, fine-leaved mouse song grass, father and son grass; small ground arhat, small-leaved golden chicken tongue, white Zhaoqu, small fire grass, wild Qingming grass, hairy water ant, thunder god green, pineapple grass, white under the leaves, golden chicken tongue, white grass, small white root chrysanthemum, black cloud covering snow, cotton grass

【 English name 】

[ Medicinal part ] The whole herb of Gnaphalium japonicum of the Asteraceae family.

【 Medicinal material properties 】Whole herb

【 Origin Distribution 】

【 Functions and indications 】Dispelling exterior pathogens, clearing away heat, improving eyesight and promoting diuresis. Treat colds, coughs, headaches, sore throats, red eyes, cataracts, urinary retention due to heat, stranguria, leucorrhea, carbuncles, and furuncles. ① "Classification of Herbal Properties": Treats sore throat, leucorrhea, and metrorrhagia. Eating food that harms the liver can improve eyesight. ② "Fujian Folk Herbs": Improves eyesight and benefits the liver, promotes diuresis and relieves fever. ③ "Guangxi Chinese Materia Medica": Treats all internal and external eye disorders, and wounds. ④ "Sichuan Chinese Medicine Records": Treat cough...

【 Clinical Application 】

[ Usage and Dosage ] For oral use: decoct in water, 1 to 3 liang for fresh product; or mash into juice. For external use: mash and apply.

The flowers are numerous, terminal, in corymbose inflorescences; the calyx is 5-lobed, with broadly ovate lobes, the epicalyx is 5-lobed, lanceolate to linear, all with white cottony hairs; the petals are 5, yellow, obovate-round, with concave heads; the stamens are numerous, with filaments of unequal length, and anthers of yellow; the pistils are numerous, clustered, and the ovary is ovate and small.

Slightly flattened, with lateral styles and small stigmas.

Achenes are oval, about 2 mm long, brown, smooth, and enclosed in persistent calyx.

Flowering period is from June to August.

The fruiting period is from August to October.

Plant morphology This section is provided and edited by China Plant Image Library (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Potentilla whole plant Potentilla branches and leaves Potentilla flowers and fruits

Basic Information

Chinese medicine name : Potentilla We Potentilla

Source : "Compendium of Materia Medica for Famine Relief".

Scientific Name : Herba Potentillae Chinensis

（UK）Chinese Cinquefoil Herb

Synonyms: Chinese cabbage (Compendium of Materia Medica for Famine Relief), root cabbage, wild henbane flower (Plant Names), Huangzhou white-headed old man (Chinese Medicinal Plants), dragon tooth grass (Nanjing Folk Medicinal Herbs), sky blue and white, small hairy medicine, tiger claw vegetable (Guizhou Folk Prescriptions and Medicines), toad grass (Northeast Medicinal Plants), old crow feather, old crow melon (Shandong Chinese Medicine), regional grass (Hohhot City "Medicine and Health" ⑶: 42, 1972), hairy chicken legs, pheasant wings, toad grass, mountain radish, white-headed old man,