Towel gourd

Towel gourd

(materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

[synonym] tianluffa, Tianluo, mangua (Benshi Fang), miangua (continued Benshi Fang), Bugua (ancient and modern comprehensive preparation), tianluogua (Puji Fang), Yulei (excellent recipe), tianhanggua, chunyanggua, daoyangcai (materia medica of Southern Yunnan), tianluosi (true story of Medicine), tianluobugua (supplement of women's good recipe), Yuci, xiguoluogua (compendium) Tianluoxu (qunfangpu), Zhixian (yilinzuoyao), Caigua (plant name Collection), shuigua (Lingnan medicine Collection), luogua (Chinese medicine plant record), xugua (Guangzhou flora), zugua (Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine plant record), and nigua (Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine plant record).

[source] it is the fresh and tender fruit of Luffa (Cucurbitaceae) or Luffa yueensis (Luffa), or the dry and ripe fruit after frost.

[plant morphology] 1. Luffa

Annual climbing herb, densely pilose when young, nearly glabrous when old. Stem length up to 7-10 meters, round, often angular edge, young stem green, sparse pilose, tendrils usually 3. Leaves alternate; petioles polygonal, pilose, 4-9 cm long; leaves central, 8-25 cm long, 15-25 cm wide, palmately 3-7-lobed, lobes often triangular, apex acuminate or acute, margin denticulate, dark green above, light green below, spiny when young, coarse and glabrous when old, 3-7 main veins. Flowers unisexual, monoecious. The female flowers are solitary, petiolate, and the male flowers are racemes; the calyx is 5-lobed, the lobes are green, ovate lanceolate, and the outer surface is pubescent; the Corolla is yellow, light yellow or near white, 5-lobed, the lobes are broad obovate, 3-5 cm long, 2.4-4.5 cm wide, and the edges are wavy; the stamens are 3-5, the anthers are 2-locular, mostly curved like "s", and the filaments are separated. Base inflated, pilose; in ovary inferior, cylindrical, 3-locular, ovule numerous, stigma 3, hypertrophic, each 2-lobed and abducted. The bottle gourd is usually drooping, long cylindrical, 18-60 cm long; when young, it is green with pink white, with dark green longitudinal lines; when mature, it becomes yellowish green or green brown; the pulp is endophytic with tough reticular fibers. Seeds oblong ovate and flat, black, margin winged. The flowering period is from May to July. The fruit period is from June to September.

It is cultivated all over the field.

② Guangdong Luffa

Its shape is similar to that of the previous species, with the following differences: the leaves are palmately lobed; the stamens are 2-3; the bottle gourd is short and small with obvious edges and corners.

Cultivated in Guangdong and Guangxi.

The root (Luffa root), stem (Luffa vine), juice in stem (tianluoshui), leaf (Luffa leaf), flower (Luffa flower), pedicel (Luffa pedicel), pericarp (Luffa peel), fiber (Luffa collaterals) and seed (Luffa seed) of the above two plants are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special provisions for each.

[collection] young Luffa is picked in summer and autumn. Old loofah (sky skeleton) should be harvested after autumn.

[chemical constituents] the fruit of Luffa contains saponins, bitter taste, mucus and citrulline. The seed contains cucurbitacin. Luffa juice contains saponins, mucus, xylan, fat, protein and vitamins.

The whole plant of Luffa cylindrica has insecticidal effect. No rotenone was found in the fruit, but it contained hydrocyanic acid.

Sweet and cool.

① "Gangmu": "Gan, Ping, non-toxic. "

② "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "Gan, Han. non-toxic. "

③ Yilin zuanyao: "sweet and salty, cold. "

[channel tropism] into liver and stomach channels.

① "Depei Materia Medica": "start with the Taiyin Sutra. "

② "Seeking truth from Materia Medica" says: "entering the meridians, entering the intestines and stomach. "

③ Ben Cao Zai Xin: "entering liver and kidney meridians. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxifying. Treatment of fever, body heat, thirst, phlegm and asthma, cough, intestinal wind, hemorrhoids, collapse, blood drenching, sores, milk obstruction, carbuncle.

① Zhu Zhenheng: "the treatment of acne is not fast, dry burning, into cinnabar research powder, honey water transfer service. "

② "Materia medica Mengluo": "treat acne, foot pain, burn ash, apply. "

③ "Introduction to medicine": "it is used to treat all kinds of malignant sores in men and women, residual poison in children's pox and rash, and mastitis and sores. "

④ "Compendium": "cooking can remove heat and benefit intestines. It can be used to remove weathered phlegm, cool blood and detoxify, kill insects, dredge meridians and collaterals, line blood vessels and lower milk; it can also be used to treat blood in defecation and defecation, hemorrhoids, hemorrhoids, hemorrhoids, hemorrhoids, hemorrhoids, egg swelling, blood gas pain, carbuncle and swelling, tooth occult, pox, rash and fetal poison. "

⑤ Wang Lianshi's book of collecting herbs: "Heaven's skeleton is used to treat women's leucorrhea, bloody drenching, swelling accumulation, and pain of all muscles and bones. "

⑥ "Lu Chuan's materia medica:" it can produce fluid to quench thirst, relieve summer heat and get rid of trouble. Treat fever, thirst, body heat and irritability. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan (2-4 Liang fresh); or burn ash and grind powder. External use: mash juice or grind powder to mix and apply.

[taboo] 1. In the book of Materia Medica of Southern Yunnan, it is not suitable to eat too much, which is harmful to the life and the fire of the gate. "

② "This classics meets the original": "Luffa tender cold slippery, eat diarrhea people. "

[prescription selection] 1. To treat intestinal wind: no matter how many melons are used, the ash can be burned, the wine can be mixed for two yuan, and the hollow bottom can be used. (continued parties)

② Treatment of hemorrhoids and anal leakage: towel gourd ash, years of lime, realgar each five money. For the end, to all gall, chicken and sesame oil and Tiao tie, close is just. (Sun Tianren Jixiao Fang)

③ Treatment of anal hemorrhoids: Luffa burning, research, wine two money. (compendium)

④ White collapse: palm (burnt ash), towel gourd. On each equal division, for the fine end. Hollow wine. (wonderful recipe)

⑤ Treatment of wind heat: towel gourd burning, research, water transfer liniment. (compendium)

⑥ Treatment of carbuncle is not convergence, sore is too deep: towel gourd mash juice frequency wipe. (ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang)

⑦ Treatment of pemphigus dampness sore: Luffa juice tiaochen powder is frequently applied. (compendium)

⑧ Treatment of jade stem ulcers: sponge gourd with seed mash juice, and gallnut powder on it. (Zhu Zhenheng)

⑩ Treatment of dry blood gas pain, the woman's blood gas is not good, up to the heart diaphragm, into dry blood gas: a towel gourd, burning, hollow warm wine service. (Shouyu shenfang)

(11) treatment of meridians: dry towel gourd for the end, with pigeon blood into a cake, dry day, research at the end. Each serving two money, hollow wine, first serve four things soup Three. (name of the sea)

(12) for the treatment of wine dysentery, hematochezia and abdominal pain, or as colorful as fish brain: a piece of dried towel gourd, burned with skin, and served with hollow wine for two yuan. One side simmers the food. (good recipe for experience)

⒀ cure milk barrier: loofah with son burning, research. Take one or two money for wine, and get sweat by covering. (simple formula)

(14) treatment of wind insect toothache: after frost drying Luffa burning, for the last rub. (ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang)

(15) Appropriate amount of raw towel gourd and boiled soup can prevent measles.

(16) Take a little of raw Luffa juice and honey; or cut it off with Luffa vine, drop a small cup of water naturally, stew it hot and take it with ice sugar to treat pertussis.

(17) Raw small towel gourd (Liandi) several, cut off, put sand pot boil, take thick juice service, treat asthma.

(18) Raw towel gourd (or leaf), mash juice, apply to the affected area, treat day bubble sores, yellow water sores, heat boils, urticaria.

(19) After frost towel gourd a, chopped, bubble boiling water, treatment of acute laryngitis, sore throat, hoarseness.

(20) Luffa 30 grams, cooked silver carp food, milk less treatment.

(21) it is not easy to treat expectoration when dried towel gourd kernel is taken 10 g per serving.

(22) wash and mash the fresh towel gourd leaves, and rub the affected area of neurodermatitis until local redness, even occult blood, once every seven days to treat neurodermatitis.

(23) old towel gourd (peeled), baked on tile, stored at the end of the research, mixed with rice wine 10 grams, treatment of lung carbuncle, hernia pain, postpartum abdominal pain.

(24) towel gourd instant drink: after frosting, wash and dice one towel gourd, add appropriate amount of water, boil for one hour, then remove the residue, continue to simmer until it is thick and sticky, add 100g sugar powder, mix well and bottle. Use 10 grams of boiling water at any time. Can treat acute, chronic pharyngitis, laryngitis, tonsillitis and other diseases.

(25) loofah lean meat soup: 250 g fresh loofah cut into pieces, 200 g pig lean meat sliced. Add appropriate amount of water to cook the soup. After cooking, season it with salt and serve it with a meal. It has the function of clearing away heat, benefiting intestines, relieving heat and getting rid of trouble. It is suitable for summer heat, thirst, early internal hemorrhoids, stool bleeding and other diseases.

(26) acne is not fast. With old towel gourd nearly pedicel three inches, even skin burning, research for powder, sugar water delivery service.

(27) carbuncle is not astringent, sore is very deep. Sponge gourd juice is frequently applied.

(28) rib swelling due to wind heat. Use towel gourd to burn, grind into powder, apply with water.

(29) bed sore. Dry the melon skin with thread, grind it into powder, mix the wine evenly and apply it.

(30) frostbite of hands and feet. Use old towel gourd to burn, add lard and wax.

(31) prolapse of hemorrhoids and fistula. With towel gourd ash, years of lime, realgar each five money, a total of research for the end, to pig gall, egg white and sesame oil to adjust the drug application, until the intestines closed.

(32) blood under intestinal wind. After using frost dry towel gourd burning, research for the end, hollow service two money, wine sent.

(33) blood collapse. With old towel gourd ash, palm ash, salt wine or salt soup delivery service.

(34) the milk is blocked. With towel gourd even son burning storage, research for the end, wine delivery service one or two money, thick cover sweating that pass.

(35) small bowel pain, around the umbilical heart. With old towel gourd even the stalk burning, research for the end. Three bucks for each serving, and the hot wine is adjusted. If the patient is seriously ill, take it twice or three times.

(36) egg swelling and falling. With old towel gourd burning, research for the end, refining honey into paste. Take a spoonful of good wine every night.

(37) lumbago. Stir fry with silk melon seeds, mash and serve with wine. Apply the residue to the pain.

(38) sore throat. Pour in the towel gourd juice.

(39) resolving phlegm and relieving cough. With towel gourd burning, research for the end, add jujube made into balls, such as marble. Take one pill at a time and send it down with warm wine.

(40) the climate has caused toothache.

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