Wax gourd seed

Wax gourd seed

(Tang materia medica)

[synonyms] white melon seeds (Ben Jing), melon seeds, melon petals (Synopsis of the Golden Chamber), wax gourd kernel (BIE Lu), melon rhinoceros (records of the age of Jingchu).

[source] it is the seed of Cucurbitaceae. For plant morphology, please refer to "wax gourd".

[collection] when eating wax gourd, collect seeds, wash them, select mature ones and dry them in the sun.

[medicinal material] the dried seeds are oblong or oblong, about 1 cm long and 6 mm wide. The cuticle is yellowish white, sometimes cracked, one end is round, the other end is pointed, and there are two small protuberances at the tip, one of which is the hilum; the other protuberance is larger with an obvious micropyle. The edge is smooth (unilateral wax gourd seed) or both sides have a ring edge (bilateral wax gourd seed). After peeling off the seed coat, we can see the milky white kernel, which is oily. It's slightly sweet. It is better to be white, plump and free of impurities.

It is produced in most parts of the country. In Sichuan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Henan, Hebei, Anhui and other places, the output is larger.

[chemical composition] the seed contains 0.68% saponin, fat, urea, citrulline, etc.

The content of linoleic acid 62.3%, oleic acid 21.9% and saturated fatty acid 15.6% in the seed oil of benincas accrifera. A small amount of adenine and trigonelline were isolated from the seed.

[processing] picking up impurities and smashing them in time. Or stir fry gently until yellowish white. Keep in a dry place to prevent insects and rats.

Sweet and cool.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes sweet and flat. "

② Bielu: "cold, nontoxic. "

③ "Luchuan Materia Medica": "sweet, cool. "

[Guijing] "Debei Materia Medica": "enter the foot Jueyin meridian. "

[function indications] moisten the lung, remove phlegm, eliminate carbuncle and promote diuresis. Treat phlegm heat cough, lung carbuncle, bowel carbuncle, gonorrhea, edema, beriberi, hemorrhoids, nose and face wine?.

① Benjing: "Yiqi. "

② Bielu: "the Lord is full of trouble and not happy. "

③ Cui Yuxi's "the book of food": "to benefit the waterway, to fresh water. "

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "remove skin wind, peel black, moisten skin. "

⑤ "Gangmu": "treating intestinal carbuncle. "

⑥ The classic of materia medica: "it can stimulate the appetite and awaken the Bi. "

⑦ Materia medica: "it is mainly used for heat accumulation in the heart meridian, small water drenching pain, nose and face wine dregs such as beans, pain, yellow water out. "

⑧ Bencao from the new: "invigorating the liver and improving eyesight. "

⑨ "Materia medica shugouyuan": "it is the most important medicine to control the gathering in the abdomen, break the pus and blood, and obstruct the intestines and stomach. "

⑩ Chen Nianzu: "it can moisten the lung, remove phlegm and benefit stomach qi. "

(11) Shandong traditional Chinese medicine: "for nephritis, urethritis, adverse urination, beriberi and edema. "

(12) Chinese medicine and plant Atlas: "swelling and pain of hemorrhoids, or washing. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1-4 yuan; or grind powder. External use: decocting, washing or paste coating.

[Yiji] bielu: "take cold for a long time. "

[prescription selection] ① cough has slight fever, fullness, and a wrong nail in the chest, which is caused by lung carbuncle: reed stem (cut, two liters, boiled with two buckets of water, five liters to remove dross), coix seed half liter, peach seed 30 pieces, melon petal (currently commonly used wax gourd seed) half liter. Cut the four flavors carefully, boil two liters of reed juice, take one liter, and spit like pus. (Qianjin Weijing Decoction in Synopsis of the Golden Chamber)

② For the treatment of intestinal abscess and pus, less abdominal swelling and fullness, it is painful to press it, such as drenching, self regulating urination, constant fever, self perspiration, complex aversion to cold, and its pulse is late and tight: four taels of rhubarb, one or two peony skins, fifty peach kernels, half a catty of melon seeds, and three combinations of mirabilite. On the five flavors, with six liters of water, boil one liter, remove dross, inside mirabilite; then fry and take it. When there is pus, if there is no pus, there is blood. (Dahuang Mudan Decoction in Synopsis of the Golden Chamber)

③ Treatment of men's leucorrhea, women's leucorrhea: Chen wax gourd fried for the end. Five yuan per hollow rice. (emergency prescription)

④ More than the treatment of diabetes, urine: dry winter melon seeds, Ophiopogon japonicus, Coptis each two. It's easy to drink. Pick Yuan Fang

⑤ To cure man's five labors and seven injuries, to improve his eyesight: seven liters of white melon seeds, in a silk bag, stir the soup three times and dry it violently; five liters of vinegar for one night and dry it violently; to cure the disease. Wine service square inch dagger, three times a day. (Qian Jin Fang)

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