Luffa seed

Luffa seed

(food materia medica by Yao Kecheng)

Wuniuzi, a synonym for wuniuzi.

[source] it is the seed of Luffa (Cucurbitaceae) or Luffa (yueluffa). The plant morphology is detailed in Luffa.

[collection] when the fruits are ripe in autumn, the seeds are collected and dried at the same time.

[medicinal material] the dried seeds are oblong, 1.2 cm long, 7 mm wide and 2 mm thick. The seed coat is gray to black with narrow wings on the edge, a ridge on one end and a pair of forked protuberances on the top. The seed coat is a little hard, and there is a membranous gray green inner seed coat outside the cotyledons. Cotyledons 2, yellow white. The taste is bitter.

They are found in most parts of the country.

[chemical constituents] Luffa seed contains 23.5-38.9% fatty oil, mainly linoleic acid, palmitic acid, stearic acid, glyceride of oleic acid, phospholipid 0.47%, squalene, α - spinasterol, etc. It also contains triterpenoid saponins (oleanolic acid is the aglycone), melanin (catechol is produced after alkali fusion and oxidation), cucurbitacin B, and other proteins and sugars.

[nature and taste] Yao Kecheng's food materia medica: "bitter: cold and poisonous. Sweet: non toxic. "

[function indications] diuretic, antipyretic. Treatment of limb surface edema, stone drenching, intestinal wind, hemorrhoids and fistula.

① Yao Kecheng's "food Materia Medica": "bitter: the main water, face and limbs swollen, water, people vomit. Sweet: in addition to vexation and thirst, treatment of heart heat, diuresis, regulating heart and lung, treatment of stone drenching, vomiting Ascaris. "

② "Yilin Zhuanyao": "treatment of intestinal wind, hemorrhoids, fistula, metrorrhagia, hypogalactia. "

③ "Nanning medicine annals": "defecate. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1-2 yuan; or stir fry and grind the powder. External use: grind and apply.

(1) Yao Kecheng's food materia medica: "if you suffer from beriberi, distension and cold air, the disease of people eating will increase. "

② "To match the materia medica": "spleen deficiency is forbidden. "

③ "Drug records of Nanning city": "pregnant women should not use it. "

[optional formula] the treatment of lumbago is more than just: stir fried sponge gourd seed kernel, take it with wine and apply it with dregs. (supplement to the good prescription)

[clinical application] it is used to drive Ascaris

Take the kernel of black silk melon seeds (white invalid), chew it on an empty stomach, or mash it into capsules, once a day. Adults took 40-50 pieces of silk melon seeds, children took 30 pieces for 2 days. 857 patients were treated, and Ascaris lumbricoides was expelled after taking the medicine.