Zhi-ye-hao, name of Chinese Medicinal Material. Neopallasia pectinata (Pall.) Poljak. [Artemisia pectinata Pall.]) is used medicinally with the entire aerial part of the plant. Its functions include being slightly bitter, astringent, and cold in nature. It clears and benefits the liver and gallbladder, and has anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties. It is used to treat acute icteric hepatitis, headache, and dizziness.
NMM ID | nmm-09xj |
Systematic Name | Neopallasia pectinata Part-aerial |
Systematic Chinese Name | 栉叶蒿地上部（zhì yè hāo dì shàng bù） |
Generic Name | Zhi-ye-hao |
Generic Chinese Name | 栉叶蒿（zhì yè hāo） |
NMM Type | plant |
Species Origins | Neopallasia pectinata | 栉叶蒿 |
Medicinal Parts | part aerial | 地上部 |
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Systematic Name Explanation | This Natural Medicinal Material is derived from the "National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine Terminology Achievement Transformation and Standard Promotion" project. Zhi-ye-hao, name of Chinese Medicinal Material. Neopallasia pectinata (Pall.) Poljak. [Artemisia pectinata Pall.]) is used medicinally with the entire aerial part of the plant. Its functions include being slightly bitter, astringent, and cold in nature. It clears and benefits the liver and gallbladder, and has anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties. It is used to treat acute icteric hepatitis, headache, and dizziness. |
Generic Name Explanation | NMMGN follows the Chinese name of the "National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine Terminology Achievement Transformation and Standard Promotion" project. |
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The efficacy and functions
Clearing the liver and gallbladder, relieving inflammation and pain. It is used to treat acute jaundice hepatitis, headache, and dizziness.
Slightly bitter, astringent, and cold in nature. Clears and benefits the liver and gallbladder, and has anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving effects. It is used to treat acute icteric hepatitis, headache, and dizziness. Dosage and administration: [to be provided by the prescriber].
0.3-0.5 grams, decoct in water or grind into powder for oral administration. Botanical information and morphological characteristics.
It is a perennial herbaceous plant. The stem branches from the base or does not branch, is erect, 12-40 centimeters tall, often with a pale purple color, and more or less densely covered with white silky hairs. The leaves are long oval to elliptic, pinnately lobed, with linear lanceolate lobes, either single or with 1-2 similar small teeth, hairless, sometimes with glandular dots, without petioles, the rachis gradually enlarging towards the base, the lower and middle stem leaves are 1.5-3 centimeters long, 0.5-1 centimeters wide, or smaller, 0.3-0.5 (1) centimeters long, and the upper and lower leaves of the inflorescence are shorter. The head-like inflorescence is sessile or nearly sessile, ovate or narrowly ovate, 3-4 (5) millimeters long, solitary or several clustered in the leaf axils, with most of the head-like inflorescences arranged in a more or less dense spike-like or narrow conical inflorescence on the upper part of the twig or stem; the involucre is broadly ovate, hairless, herbaceous, with a broad membranous margin, the outer layer slightly shorter, sometimes the upper half becoming leathery; the inner layer is narrower. There are 3-4 fertile female flowers on the edge, with a tubular corolla and entire margin; 9-16 bisexual central flowers, with 4-8 fertile ones attached to the lower part of the receptacle, the rest attached to the top of the receptacle being sterile, all bisexual flowers have a 5-lobed corolla, sometimes with a pink color. The achene is elliptic, 1.2-1.5 millimeters long, dark brown, with fine grooves, arranged in a circle at the base of the receptacle. The flowering and fruiting period is from July to September. Distribution area: [not provided]
Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang. Growing environment.
Born in loamy or clay loamy soil.