Herpetospermum pedunculosum

[ source ] from" the common Chinese herbal medicines in Tibet"
[ ] Pinyin name B L e n to be Gu.
English name [ ] fruit of Pedunculate Herpetospermum
[ source ]
Medicine source: for the Cucurbitaceae fruits of Herpetospermum pedunculosum.
Latin animal mineral name: Herpetospermu pedunculo-sum ( Ser. ) C.B.Clarke
Harvest and storage: 6-10 months of recovery, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of annual herbs climbing. Stems slender, angled groove; beginning with sparsely pilose, finally becoming glabrous. Leaves alternate; petiole length 4-10cm, with stems and branches, like hairs, fall off gradually after; tendrils 2 disambiguation; leaf blade membranous, ovate-cordate, length 6-12cm, width 4-9cm, apex caudate-acuminate, base cordate, two sides all rough, beginning is yellow-brown villous, margin denticulate fall off gradually after; circular or irregular angle, in the leaf veins bulge, villous. Dioecious; flowers usually single or with the same raceme and pedicels long, 10-16cm, 5-10 flower racemes long 12-40cm, sparsely pilose; pedicels long 2-6cm, sparsely villous; calyx tube dilated into a funnel shape, the lower tube, long 2-2.5cm, lobes lanceolate; corolla yellow, lobes elliptic, urgent sharp, long 2-2.2cm, width 1.2-1.3cm; stamen filaments filiform; pistillode nearly subulate; female flowers with perianth and single students, male, with 3 staminodes or absent; ovary oblong, 3 room. Fruit broadly oblong, trigonous, pilose when mature, 3 petal divided nearly to base, inside fibrous, length 7-8cm, width 3-4cm, seed pale gray, oblong, base truncate, a small pointed top, not obvious 3 crack, length 12mm, width 5mm, thickness of 2-3mm. Flower, fruit 6-10.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in forest.
Distribution: distribution of resources in Southwest China and Tibet.
[ ] the taste of bitter cold;
[ function ] suffered diarrhoea; clearing away heat. The main infectious hepatitis; cholecystitis.
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 3-9g; or into the pill; powder.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/