Local melon

Local melon

(materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

[alias] Tu Dan (Zunyi Fu Zhi), Dian Tu Gua (a textual research on the name and reality of plants), Shan Tu Gua (empirical identification method of traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] it is the tuberous root of Cucumis melo.

[plant morphology] native melon

Perennial twining herbs. The root tuber is spherical or ovoid with reddish brown or yellowish white epidermis and milky mucus. Stem slender, glabrous. Leaves alternate; petiole 0.9-2.1 cm long; leaves broadly ovate, elliptic or oblong, 3-5 cm long and 1.4-3.5 cm wide, apex short, base rounded or obtuse, entire or with shallow wavy folds, both surfaces smooth and glabrous, or margin pilose near base. Flowers solitary, axillary or cymose; pedicel 3 times longer than petiole, bracteoles 2 near tip; sepals 5, ovoid; corolla yellow, funnel-shaped, 3-4.5 cm in diameter, about 4 cm long; stamen 5, anther white, elliptic; pistil 1, ovary superior, yellow nectary attached at base, style longer than filament. Capsule oblate, with many seeds. The flowering period is summer and autumn.

It grows in the Bush on the hillside. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou and other places.

[collection] in autumn, the soil was collected, washed, sliced and dried.

[medicinal materials] most of the dried tubers have been cut into 5 mm thick discs, with yellow white section, powdery, loose texture and dry shrinkage wrinkles. The outer surface is reddish brown or yellowish white, rough. It's slightly sweet. It is better to be dry, white and unbroken.

It is produced in Yunnan.

[nature and taste] materia medica of Southern Yunnan: "sweet, flat. "

[Guijing] materia medica of Southern Yunnan: "red soil melon enters the spleen and stomach meridians. White into the lung. "

Functions and indications: clearing liver and gallbladder, moistening lung and relieving cough. Treatment of jaundice, chronic hepatitis, lung heat, cough, hypogalactia, leucorrhea, infantile malnutrition.

① There are red and white. Red treatment of women under the red and white belt, Tongjing antipyretic; treatment of cough, lung heat into carbuncle, but also treatment of women's milk obstruction, yin and Yang, uterine deficiency cold, men's cold essence; and spleen and stomach health and body fluid, raw food antiemetic treatment of hunger; spleen, stomach heat, wide, diuretic, stop large intestine blood; white treatment of lung heat, thirst, diuretic; treatment of lung carbuncle cough, pass milk. "

② "Experience identification method of traditional Chinese medicine shape and nature": "calm the liver, clear the liver heat. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 4-5 yuan; or raw. External use: tamping.

[selection] 1. To treat chronic hepatitis: one or two red earth melons. Brown sugar or honey as a guide, decoction. (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

② Treat bladder slant fall gas ache, or a son big hard: soil melon skin point water wine decoct soup take. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

③ Treatment of infantile malnutrition, hernia: Red Earth melon three money. Take it in water. (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of fire scald: smash the root of red melon and apply it to the affected area. (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)