Kuhulu

Kuhulu

(compendium)

[synonyms] KUPAO (Guoyu), Pulu (Liji), kuhu (Benjing), Yuehu, Yuefu Hu (Guangzhi), kuhulou (tangbencao), yayaohulu (simple prescription), Changbing teapot Lu (linhuji simple prescription), yaohulu Lu (compendium), qingneck gourd, Changbing gourd (Fengyuan of Benjing), jinhulu (collection of medicinal materials), jinghulu (jinghulu), jinghulu (linhuji simple prescription) Xiaohulu (flora of Jiangsu).

[source] it is the fruit of Cucurbitaceae.

[plant morphology] bitter gourd

Climbing herbs annual, hirsute; tendrils branched. Leaves alternate; leaves heart-shaped ovate, 10-40 cm long, slightly equal in width and length, with 2-4 lobes, apex short pointed or obtuse, margin with irregular wavy short teeth, base heart-shaped, both sides of leaves covered with soft hairs; petiole very long, apex with 2 glandular teeth. Flowers monoecious, solitary; male flowers with long petiole, longer than petiole, female petiole shorter; calyx funnel-shaped, 5-lobed, teeth narrowly triangular, pilose; petals 5, white, broadly ovate; stamens 3, anthers united, one anther with 1 locule, the other two anthers each with 2 locules; female ovary elliptic, villous, style short, stigma 3, each 2-lobed. The fruit is pubescent and light green at the beginning. After ripening, the shell becomes hard, smooth, white or yellow. There are two different fruit chambers at the top and bottom. The upper chamber is smaller than the lower chamber, and the middle is as thin as waist. Seeds white, flat, obovate, oblong. The flowering period is from July to August.

It is distributed in most parts of the country.

The stem (kuhulu vine), leaf (kuhulu leaf), flower (kuhulu flower), seed (kuhulu seed) and old hot pericarp (chenhulu Ladybug) of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] in autumn, the ripe but not old fruits are taken and peeled.

Bitter, cold.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes bitter and cold. "

② Bielu: "poisonous. "

③ Daily use materia medica: "it tastes sweet, slightly bitter and non-toxic. "

[function indications] diuresis and detumescence. Treatment of edema, yellow pox, diabetes, dysmenorrhea, carbuncle, sore, scabies.

① "Ben Jing": "the main water, face swelling limbs. It's spitting to get into the water. "

② In the treatise on traditional Chinese medicine: "to treat water swelling, face swelling and limb swelling. It's very dangerous to have a bad breath. "

③ Tang materia medica: "main edema, stone drenching, vomit cough (" cough "a work" ah cough "), capsule knot light drink. And boiled to juice, stains Yin, treatment of urine barrier. "

④ Meng Shen: "the main thirst, sores. "

⑤ "Materia medica collection": "decoction Juice Drops in the nose, yellow water, to typhoid nasal congestion, jaundice. And boil to make hot, untie, iron children flash addiction. "

⑥ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "in addition to vexation and thirst, it can cure heart heat, benefit small intestine, moisten heart and lung, cure stone drenching, and vomit Ascaris lumbricoides. "

⑦ "Gangmu": "the treatment of carbuncle, scabies, caries, insects hidden. "

⑧ According to the textual research on the names and facts of plants: "it can vomit people, and most of the miasma can be solved by vomit. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-3 Qian; or into pills, powder. External use: smoked and washed with boiling water, coated with boiling juice or dripped nose.

[should avoid] the weak and weak should not take it.

Meng Shen: "people suffering from beriberi and air-conditioning should not eat, especially food.". "

[selection] 1. Water control and body swelling: one bitter gourd membrane is divided into two parts, and the other Tingli seed is divided into five parts. On the two flavor rammed into a pill, such as Xiaodou big five pills, three days. Two jujube meat seven, bitter gourd membrane such as jujube seed big. Take three pills once, such as 15 Li, take three pills again, and take one pill when water comes out. (Qian Jin Fang)

② Water swelling: a bitter gourd pulp, two liters of water, boiled to a liter, fried main pill, such as beans. Drink ten pills per meter. When it's convenient to eat, don't drink. (compendium)

③ Treatment stone water, thin limbs, abdominal swelling: almond (soup dip, peeled tip, fried), bitter gourd (take film micro fried) each one or two. On the two flavor, mash for the end, cooked batter and balls, such as beans. Take ten pills every time, drink rice, take it three times a day, and the water comes out as the degree. (almond pill in Shengji Zonglu)

④ Treatment of abdominal distension and jaundice: sub waist pot Lu Lianzi burning, each take one, before eating warm wine, do not drink white soup. (simple formula)

⑤ Treatment of jaundice: bitter fenugreek pulp, such as jujube Xu, to the child urine two immersion, three Liang food, take two sour jujube juice, in two nostrils. (waitai)

⑥ Treatment of typhoid nasal obstruction jaundice: bitter gourd Decoction Juice Drops in the nose, yellow water. (notes on materia medica)

⑦ Treatment of jaundice: gourd white flesh and son boil yellow, pound for the end. Take half money dagger, one day, ten days. (jaundice powder in fan Wang Fang)

⑧ Treatment of head wind: bitter gourd stirred juice, reed tube is twitching into the nose. The medicine rushes to the forehead, and the saliva flows down in a moment. It's thick. Don't doubt that you are dizzy. (Sheng Hui Fang)

⑨ Treatment of hemorrhoids: kuhulu, Ixeris Sonchus. Fried soup, first smoked and then washed, is pasted bear gall, mithushen, gall alum, pieces of brain. (pick Yuan Fang)

⑩ Treatment of malignant sores, ringworm and scabies: a bitter gourd, boiled juice, three times a day. (behind the elbow)

(11) treatment of axillary galls: long handle teapot Lu (burning), research the end of the rub, to eliminate the degree. (Linhu jijianfang)

(12) treatment of pterygium and pannus: in autumn, take a small handle pot Lu or a small medicine pot Lu, dry in the shade, cut it in a tight place, and dig a small hole as big as the eye hole. In case of this disease, the eyelids up and down with hands to open the pot Lu Kong. At the beginning, although he was very painful, the blood stasis and the blood haze were gradually falling, not hurting his eyes. (baoshoutang experience prescription)

Treatment of dark eyes: bitter gourd in white, wring juice together, to vinegar a liter, ancient text money seven, soak, low fire fried in half, to rice Xu big canthus. (Qian Jin Fang)

(14) treatment of stillbirth: the end of kuhulu research. One money for each serving, under the hollow hot wine. (name of the sea)

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