Golden melon seed

Golden melon seed

(records of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine)

[synonym] guazijin (plant state of Guangzhou), wangshuiwang Xiantao, ruzhiteng (list of Guangxi Medicinal Plants), guazihe, shushangguazi, yanshulian, guaziteng (color atlas of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine), shixiantao, xiaoerhuan, shangshuguazi (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine), shangshubie, yiyucao (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine) of Guangzhou air force.

[source] it is the whole plant of Asclepiadaceae.

[plant morphology] Cucurbitaceae

Vines, with milk. The stem is fleshy and delicate, with internodes 5-11 cm long and rooting on the internodes. Leaves opposite, thick and fleshy, ovate, 1.2-2 cm long, 1 cm wide, apex acute, base cuneate, entire, veins distinct; petiolate. The flowers are very small, usually several, forming a subsessile bouquet in the axils of leaves; calyx 5-lobed, lobes very small, oval oblong, with 5 glands inside; corolla pot shaped, yellow white, 5-lobed, lobes triangular ovate; stamen 5-lobed, filaments forming short tube. Follicles slender. There are white silky hairs on the top of seeds. It blooms in autumn.

Born in mountains, sparse forests or valleys, streams, climbing on rocks or trees. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

Cucurbita moschata is also used as medicine.

[nature and taste] Color Atlas of common Chinese herbal medicine: "sweet, slightly acid, cold. "

Functions and indications: clearing heat and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxifying. Treatment of lung heat and hemoptysis, infantile malnutrition, dysentery, emphysema, furuncle.

① "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "cough, phlegm, lactation. Treatment of lung disease, anemia, frailty. "

② Color atlas of common Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing lung and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxifying. It is used to treat lung dryness, hemoptysis, infantile malnutrition, tumefaction, furuncle, swelling and poison, snake bite. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan (1-2 Liang fresh). External use: tamping.

[selection] 1. Treatment of lung dryness and hemoptysis: shixiantao, yijianqiu, two in each. Fry in water, make honey and take it.

② Treatment of dysentery: two pairs of shixiantao. Fry in water, make honey and take it.

③ Treatment of ulcer carbuncle poison: shixiantao, dog liver vegetables each amount, a total of mash, apply the affected area.

④ Cure mastitis not suppurative: Stone fairy peach, straw shoe root each one or two. Mash and apply to the affected area.

⑤ Treatment of children with impetigo: the right amount of Pholidota, water, wash the affected area. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)