Red sunflower

Red sunflower

(Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] Lycium barbarum (Chinese herbal medicine in Inner Mongolia), eggplant, capsicum indicum and medicated bean (medicinal plant in desert area of China).

[source] it is the whole grass or fruit of Solanaceae plant Solanum nigrum.

[plant morphology] Solanum nigrum

Herbs perennial, height 50 cm. Stem erect, ribbed, branched, green. Leaves alternate, ovate, irregularly pinnate, lobes broadly linear or lanceolate, apex acuminate, base narrowed, extending into petiole. Cyme, terminal or lateral, flowers purple. Berries small, ovate or globose, less than 1 cm in diameter, red when ripe.

Born on the roadside, water, field, ditch, canal. Distributed in Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu and other places.

[collection] cut the whole grass in summer and autumn, wash and cut into sections.

[flavor] bitter, cold and toxic.

[function indications] clearing away heat and toxin. For sore throat, dizzy eyes, red eyes and itchy skin.

[selection] 1. Treatment of sore throat: two liang of fresh red sunflower, fried in water for three times.

② Treatment of blurred vision: Red sunflower fruit two money, fried in water.

③ Treatment of skin itching: Red sunflower two liang, water fried fumigation. (the following is the Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine)