kiwifruit

Chinese Name: Kiwifruit

[category] fruits

[synonyms] Tengli, Muzi, Houzi, yangtao, yangtao, Maoye, Dahongpao, Dalinghe, Houzi, yangtao, Shengli, Jinli, Yeli, shanyangtao (Guizhou herbal medicine), fox peach (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual).

[source] it is the fruit of Actinidiaceae.

[plant morphology] Kiwifruit

Liana. Young branches and petioles densely covered with brown hairs or prickles; old branches reddish brown, smooth, glabrous; pith large, white, flaky. The leaves are alternate, the vegetative branches are broad ovoid to elliptic, the apex is very short, acuminate to cusp; the flower branches are nearly round, 6-17 cm long, 5-13 cm wide, the apex is short cusp, round or truncate, the base is round to heart-shaped, the edge is ciliate, the upper part is often only covered with sparse hairs on the veins, the lower part is gray white, densely covered with stellate villi; the petiole is 3-7.5 cm long. The flowers are heterozygous, usually 3-6 in axillary cymes, rarely solitary, milky white at first, then orange yellow, fragrant; sepals 5, covered with yellow villi; petals 5, apex concave, smooth, glabrous; stamens many, filament length varies; ovary superior, style filiform, most. The berry is ovoid or subglobose, densely brownish yellow with long bristles and yellowish green peel. Seeds small, mostly black. The flowering period is from April to June. The fruit period is from August to October.

Growing on hillsides, forest margins or shrubs. It is distributed in Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Gansu, Yunnan, Guizhou, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi.

The roots (kiwifruit roots), branches and leaves (kiwifruit branches and leaves) and the juice in the stem (kiwifruit vine juice) of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[chemical constituents] kiwifruit contains sugar, vitamin, organic acid and pigment. Each 100 g edible part contains 11 g Sugar, 1.6 g protein, 0.3 g lipid, 300 mg ascorbic acid, 0.007 mg thiamine, 25.5 mg sulfur, 42.2 mg phosphorus, 26.1 mg chlorine, 3.3 mg sodium, 320 mg potassium, 19.7 mg magnesium, 56.1 mg calcium, 1.6 mg iron and 0.085 mg carotenoid. It also contains ACTINIDINE.

The content of ascorbic acid in the immature fruit of Actinidia arguta was 461-521 mg%, and that in the mature fruit was 532-930 mg%.

Sweet and sour, cold.

① Cui Yuxi's book of food: "it tastes sweet and cold. "

② Fujian folk herbal medicine: "sweet, cold, slippery, non-toxic. "

[Guijing] "Depei Materia Medica": "enter the foot Shaoyin and Yangming meridians. "

Functions and indications: relieve fever, quench thirst, and relieve gonorrhea. Treatment of fever, thirst, jaundice, stone drench, hemorrhoids.

① Cui Yuxi's Shi Jing: "He Zhong An Gan. Main jaundice, thirst. "

② "Dietotherapy Materia Medica": "take the flesh and honey to fry, remove the heat and stop thirst. "

③ "Materia medica Shiyi": "the wind of main bone joints, slow paralysis, long-term whiteness, hemorrhoids, regulate the lower Qi. "

④ "Kaibao Materia Medica": "stop sudden thirst, relieve vexed heat, and go down the stone shower. Take the juice and ginger juice for those with heat and nausea. "

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

[should avoid] take it with caution if the spleen and stomach are deficient and cold.

"Kaibao Materia Medica": "cold spleen and stomach, dynamic discharge?"?. "

[selection] ① anorexia. Dyspepsia: two liang kiwi fruit. Take it in water. (Hunan medical records)

② Governance bias fall: Kiwi one or two, kumquat root three money. Decoct with water to remove the residue, pour in two liang of Shaojiu and take it orally twice. (Mindong materia medica)