False youth

False youth

(essential preparation of raw herbs)

[synonym] Geyao, brewed balsam pear, well sealed, bibizi (essential preparation of raw herbal medicine), Feiqiao, geqiao (Lingnan medicine collection record), feilou (Nanning medicine records), zhupaicai (Guangzhou army's Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine), gelou, shanlou, dapailou, matilou, Piper and bayanxiang (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root of the pepper plant pseudoshao.

[plant morphology] pseudoshao

Bare shrubs or subshrubs. Stem base prostrate, upper part erect or climbing, nodes expanded. Leaves alternate, submembranous, broadly ovate or suborbicular, 7-12 cm long and 5-10 cm wide, apex short, base nearly truncate or shallowly cordate, entire; green; 5-7 main veins, veinlets reticulate; petiole 1-3 cm long. The inflorescence is about 2.5 cm long in male inflorescence and 6-8 mm long in female inflorescence; the peduncle is 1-2.5 cm long; the bracts are shield shaped, connate with the central axis, about 6 mm in diameter; there is no perianth, with 3-5 styles, not protruding at first and bending outward at last. The berries are dense, mulberry shaped and cyan. It blooms in autumn. The fruit period is autumn and winter.

In the shade of a garden or forest. It is distributed in the south of China.

The leaves (pseudomedicine leaves) and ears (pseudomedicine ears) of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[function indications] treat malaria, beriberi, toothache and hemorrhoids.

① "To cure toothache, to wash rotten feet" is one of the main contents of the book "preparation of raw herbal medicine". "

② "Seek the source of Materia Medica": "wash hemorrhoids. "

③ Lingnan medicine collection records: "it can cure malaria by cooking with chicken eggs. Where suffering from blood arrow sores, tamping. Treatment of beriberi, decoction, oral and external washing. "

④ "Wild medicine plants" said: "boiling water to wash ulcers, sores. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, fresh use 3-5 yuan. External use: tamping or frying and washing.

[selected formula] treatment of caries pain: five coins from the root of Trichosanthes kirilowii. Gargle with water. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)