Eggplant

Eggplant

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

Xiaocun is golden.

[source] it's the whole plant of Primulaceae.

[plant morphology] small eggplant

Perennial herbs, 10-30 cm high. Stems prostrate or oblique, all covered with yellowish pubescence. Leaves opposite or alternate; leaf blade ovate or broadly ovate, 1-2.5 cm long, 5-20 mm wide, apex pointed or obtuse, base rounded or broadly cuneate, extending into a wingstalk, entire, both sides hairy, with black glandular dots below. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, 5-7 mm in diameter; calyx 5-lobed, lobes linear lanceolate, hairy outside, persistent; petals 5-yellow, triangular ovate. Capsule globose, 4-5 mm in diameter. Seeds elliptic, black.

Born on hillside grassland. It is distributed in Guizhou and other places.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

[flavor] slightly sweet, flat.

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and toxin, removing dampness and relieving pain.

[prescription selection] ① treatment of Ba Gu Huang: one or two small inch golden yellow and one or two large inch golden yellow, soak in wine. When using, put the medicinal wine in a bowl, light it, quickly dip the medicinal wine with your hand, and rub the affected area. If it has festered, then use large and small inch golden wool together, add a little wine, apply around the affected area.

② Treatment of abdominal pain: fresh small inch golden one or two. Chew.

③ Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis pain: small inch golden one or two, tengwu three money. Wine making clothes.