Weighing pear

Weighing pear

(commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Sichuan)

[synonym] Celastrus angustifolia and Celastrus angustifolia (economic flora of China).

[source] it is the fruit of Actinidia glabra.

[plant morphology] Actinidia glabra

Twining vines, up to 10 meters long. Branches reddish brown, suborbicular, smooth, glabrous, with obvious ovate or linear lenticels, pith white and solid. Leaves alternate; leathery; obovate oblong, elliptic to oblong lanceolate, 4-13 cm long and 2-4 cm wide, apex acute or short acuminate, base cuneate or broadly cuneate, glabrous on both sides, margin sparsely serrate with small pointed red glands, complete without teeth near the base of leaves; petiole smooth, glabrous, 1-2.5 cm long. Flowers solitary or 2-4, forming cymes, on leafless old branches or at the base of young branches, red, smaller, 6-8 mm in diameter, heterozygous; sepals 5, green or yellowish green, ovoid, glabrous outside, sometimes white pubescent inside; petals 5, suborbicular; stamens many; ovary superior, densely white hairy, style filiform, many. Berry long ovate or spherical, brown, 1.5-2 cm long, 0.7 cm wide, mature yellow, glabrous, with white lenticels. The flowering period is from May to July. The fruit period is from August to September.

In the ditch, forest or shrub. It is distributed in Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui and Hubei.

The root of this plant is also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] collected in autumn and dried in the sun.

[nature and taste] Sichuan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine: "sour and astringent, warm in nature. "

[functions and indications] common Chinese herbal medicine in Sichuan: "treating tumor. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: soak in wine, 1-2 Liang.

Chinese PinYin : Cheng Tuo Li