Eggplant

Eggplant

(materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

[synonyms] citianqie (Diannan materia medica), xiaonaoyang and xiaobelladonna (preparation of raw herbs), jinniutou (Lingnan medicine collection record), wuzhaiqie (Chinese tree taxonomy), jincunniu and xihuangqie (Luchuan materia medica), le'aigua, xibelladonna, false eggplant, tianxingzi, Mantianxing and wujiaobelladonna (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List), ciqie (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the fruit, seed and leaf of Solanaceae.

[plant morphology] purple flower eggplant, also known as yellow buckwheat, twisted eggplant wood, golden buckle, golden hanging willow.

Shrubs perennial, ca. 1 m tall, covered with gray stellate pubescence. Branches cylindrical, brown, with stout barbs. Leaves alternate; leaves oblong ovate, 2-5 cm long, 1.5-3.5 cm wide, apex obtuse, base unequal on both sides, sometimes sub truncate, margin irregularly undulate or lobed, both sides covered with stellate pubescence, especially under dense; petioles and both sides of leaves with scattered light brown spines. Cymes lateral; pedicels sparsely spiny, ca. 5 mm; flowers blue purple; calyx 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate; corolla shallow campanulate, folded before opening, lobes 5-lanceolate; stamens 5, inserted on corolla throat, anthers yellow, apically lobed; ovary 2-locular. Berries globose, yellow when ripe, glabrous and smooth. It blooms in spring.

Wild in grassland and hillside. Distributed in Yunnan, Guangdong, Sichuan, Taiwan and other places.

The root of this plant (Parthenocissus tricuspidata) is also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[nature and taste] materia medica of Southern Yunnan: "cold in nature, bitter in taste. "

[function and indications] "Diannan Materia Medica" says: "it is the last application for treating toothache. It can cure nasopharynx, dispel wind, stop headache and eliminate wind evil. "

[prescription selection] 1. To control the swelling and stagnation: wash and dry the eggplant, stir fry the eggplant, mix it with sugar, mix it with boiling water for three to five cents, and take it hollow. (collection of herbs in Lingnan)

② Treatment of abscess and ulceration: dried leaves of Solanum nigrum and scattered on the affected area (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

[clinical application] treatment of breast cancer ulcer

Take the fresh leaves of purple eggplant to dry or dry the powder, sterilize under high pressure, sprinkle the powder on the ulcer surface, and cover it with disinfectant gauze. Once or twice a day. When changing dressing, wash ulcer surface with normal saline, and then sprinkle powder. Note that the powder can not be sprinkled on fresh granulation or normal skin mucosa, so as not to cause eczema and dermatitis. The above method has been used in 50 cases of different types of breast cancer ulcers. The odor was removed, the exudation stopped and the carrion fell off.