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This product is bittersweet nightshade Solanum lyratum Thunb. The whole plant. (English) Bittersweet Herb

Synonyms: Solanum vine, hair style rattan, hyacinth hair, hair scholar.

Plant Form: Perennial herbaceous vine, stems and leaves with dense pubescence in length. Leaves alternate, mostly piano-shaped, 3.5 ~ 5.5cm, width 2.5 ~ 4cm, apex acuminate, base entire or deeply lobed in 3 to 5 lobes ovate, large, two were long-pubescent; entire edge of the petiole or 3 to 5 deeply lobed, the lobes ovate, large, two were long-pubescent; petiole about 3cm. Cyme exogenous apical or axillary; flowers blue or white, calyx 5 lobed; corolla 5 deep crack, fold out from the base; stamens 5, anthers crack the top hole; ovary 2 rooms. Berry spherical, mature red. Flowering from July to September, the fruit of 9 to 11 months.

Born in the hillside or the street. Production in Jiangsu, Shandong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Sichuan.

Collect and process: summer and autumn harvest and dried.

Chemical composition: containing β-hydroxy steroid alkaloids.

Nature: cold, sweet; a small drug.
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Indications: detoxification, expelling wind and dampness, removing blood stasis. For damp-heat jaundice, wind-heat, headache, excessive vaginal discharge, rheumatoid arthritis.

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