七寸金(黄花草)学名地耳草,属金絲桃科,为多年生草本植物,生于水田、原野阴湿之地。茎方形,高七至八寸。叶对生、呈卯圆形而短,叶底相互接近。夏月茎梢开小花,呈金黄包。味苦、性辛平,有活血、破瘀、消肿、解毒等功用。民間常用于毒蛇咬伤、魚刺伤、跌打損伤、痈疽肿毒、赤白痢疾、閉經等。疗效可靠,价値如金,故有七寸金之名。 1958年本市防疫站曾以此葯作試管内試驗,并用于伤寒带菌者,获得意外效果。去年我院以七寸金煎 Seven-inch gold (yellow grass) scientific name of ear grass, is Hypericum Branch, is a perennial herb, was born in paddy fields, wilderness and wetlands. Stems are square and seven to eight inches high. The leaves are opposite, round and short, and the bottoms of the leaves are close to each other. Summer moon shoots open flowers, golden bag. Bitterness, sexual pungent, blood circulation, broken carbuncle, swelling, detoxification and other functions. Commonly used in snake bites, fishbone wounds, bruises, swollen boils, red and white dysentery, amenorrhea. The curative effect is reliable, and the price is as good as gold, so it has the name of seven-inch gold. In 1958, the city’s epidemic prevention station once used this medicine as an in-vitro test and used it for typhoid carriers to obtain unexpected results. Last year our hospital took seven-inch golden fried