Wax gourd

Wax gourd

(Zhejiang folk herbs)

[synonym] white carambola, white peach, white grape, raw maoteng pear (Zhejiang folk commonly used herbal medicine), Shanpu peach (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root and leaf of Actinidiaceae.

[plant morphology] carambola

Deciduous vines, 10 m long. Branchlets and petioles densely white pilose, later smooth, with oblong lenticels; pith white flaky. Leaves alternate, thick papery, oblong to rounded, 7-15 cm long and 4-12 cm wide, apex acuminate or obtuse to mucronate; base suborbicular, or microcordate, margin with small sharp teeth, upper part white pilose when young, later abscission, lower part densely covered. The petiole is 1.5-2.5 cm long. The flowers are large, light red, about 2.5 cm in diameter, with 3 flowers forming axillary cymes; the calyx is usually 2-piece, several round, and the stalk are gray white pilose; the petals are 5-6, ovate; the stamens are many, the anthers are yellow; the ovary is round, densely pilose, and the stigma is many. Berries cocoon like, densely gray villous. The flowering period is from April to June. The fruit period is from August to September.

It grows on hillside, valley, stream and forest edge. Distributed in Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[collection] root: harvested all year round; leaf: harvested in summer and autumn.

[nature and taste] Fujian Chinese herbal medicine: "root: slightly pungent, cold; leaf: slightly bitter and pungent. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and dampness, promoting blood circulation, detumescence and detoxification. Treatment of lung heat, aphonia, drenching turbidity, leucorrhea, facial erysipelas, lymphadenitis, dermatitis, carbuncle sore swelling poison.

① "Zhejiang folk commonly used herbal medicine": "clearing away heat and toxin, relaxing tendons and promoting blood circulation. Treatment of systemic sores, dermatitis, nameless swelling, inguinal lymphadenitis, traumatic injury. "

② "Fujian Chinese herbal medicine": "treatment of lung heat, aphonia, distemper of big head, damp heat, stone drenching, white turbidity, breast carbuncle, gastric cancer, nasal cancer, breast cancer. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 Liang. External use: tamping.

[selection] 1. Treatment of aphasia due to lung heat: one or two fresh roots of Carambola pubescens. Fried in water, mixed with rock sugar.

② In the tropics of controlling dampness, there are stone drenching and white: fresh roots of carambola and wild Juema, one to two each. Take it in water.

③ Treatment of big head plate (facial erysipelas): fresh roots of carambola, with the second rice hogwash grinding juice coated on the affected area.

④ Treatment of mastitis: fresh leaves of carambola, add a little lees, brown sugar, mash the affected area. (1) Fujian Chinese herbal medicine is listed below.)

⑤ Treatment unknown swelling poison: fresh hair wax gourd root mash or add wine mash applied to the affected area.

⑥ Treatment of inguinal lymphadenitis: mash the root of Chaenomeles pubescens, mix distiller's grains, simmer hot, apply to the affected area, once a day.

⑦ Cure hernia hair wax gourd root one or two, litchi two, egg two, add a cup of wine, water fried. Eat eggs and juice.

⑧ Treatment of systemic furuncle, dermatitis: hair wax gourd root four to five Liang, add pork amount with cooking.

⑨ Treatment of traumatic injury: the root skin of Chaenomeles hispida is mashed and applied externally, and the root is taken for four to eight Liang decoction. (5) common folk herbs in Zhejiang Province

⑩ Treatment of gastric cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, breast cancer: fresh roots of Carambola Maohua 22.5 money. 15-20 days as a course of treatment, after a few days of rest and then take, even take four courses. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Mao Dong Gua