Tangutoma urinary vesicle

Tangutoma urinary vesicle

(selected Chinese herbal medicines from Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai)

[synonym] Ma Niao Pao, Yang Niao Pao (Qinghai common Chinese herbal medicine manual), Tang chuanga Bao (Tibetan name).

[source] it is the seed and root of tangutoma, a solanaceous plant.

[plant morphology] tanggutema urinary vesicle

Perennial herbs, 15-35 cm high. The root is thick and fleshy. Stem erect, short, sparsely pilose or glandular. The leaf blade is oblong, 6-20 cm long and 2-4 cm wide, apex obtuse, entire or notched, both sides covered with pubescence or glandular hairs, margin more; petiole winged. Inflorescence stalk axillary, 1-3 flowers, yellow; calyx cylindric, about 1 cm long, with short obtuse teeth 5, rapidly enlarged into an elliptic sac with longitudinal ribs and reticulate veins when bearing fruit; corolla tubular, 2 cm long, hidden in the expanded calyx; stamens 5, hidden; disk annular, swollen under ovary; ovary 2-locular, ovules numerous. Fruit globose, vesicular. Seeds dark brown, reniform, slightly flattened.

It grows in high mountain, sandy land, arid grassland and roadside. It is distributed in Sichuan, Qinghai, Gansu and other places.

[collection] in autumn, when the fruit is ripe, the seeds are collected and dried in the sun; in September to October, the roots are dug and dried in the sun.

[chemical constituents] the plant contains alkaloids such as amantadine.

Bitter, pungent, cold and poisonous.

① "Qinghai commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual": "hard, cold. "

② "Tibetan Plateau medicine illustrated book": "bitter, cold, toxic. "

[function indications] selected Chinese herbal medicines of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai: "analgesia and detumescence. Treatment of gastrointestinal spasmodic pain, sores, cancer and skin diseases. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 min. External use: wash with boiling water or dip the affected area with alcohol.

[selected formula] treating unknown swelling toxin: horse urine bubble one or two. Wash the affected area with water, three times a day; or soak it in 75% alcohol for several days, and then apply it on the affected area, three times a day. (manual of common Chinese herbal medicine in Qinghai)