Egg ginseng 1

Egg ginseng

(investigation report on medicine and plant in Kunming)

[synonym] jinxianhulu (a textual research on the names of plants), buxuecao and niuweishen (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root of calabash.

[plant morphology] calabash

Perennial twining herbs, with milk, 60-120 cm long. The root is succulent, subglobose, 1-2 cm in diameter, with light brown yellow surface. Stem slender, upper end branched, slightly purplish. The leaves are ovoid, lanceolate or linear lanceolate, 2-5 cm long and 0.5-1.5 cm wide, apex long acuminate, base obtuse or nearly truncate, entire; petiole short; veins protruding on the back. Flowers solitary, apical; corolla campanulate, light blue purple, about 1.5 cm in diameter, 5 petals, narrowly ovate or ovate lanceolate. Capsule obovate. The seeds are numerous and small. The flowering period is summer and autumn.

Born in the mountains, Qinggou, grass.

[collection] collect in autumn and winter, clean and slice, dry or fresh.

[flavor] sweet and bitter, slightly warm.

① Common folk herbs in Kunming: "sweet, flat, slightly fishy. "

② Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "sweet, slightly bitter, slightly warm. "

[function indications] tonifying the lung and kidney. Treatment of lung deficiency cough, body deficiency, self sweating, hernia, partial fall.

① "Plant name and reality picture research": "root vinegar grinding, apply milk blowing. "

② Common folk herbs in Kunming: "invigorating the lung and kidney. Treatment of tuberculosis, cough, renal capsule falling, hernia. "

③ Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "tonifying qi and blood, moistening lung and promoting body fluid. Treatment of anemia, body deficiency, self perspiration, lung deficiency cough. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang; or stewed meat.