Chen Lu gourd pot

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From the" compendium of Materia Medica".
[ ] Ch e n Pinyin name H L Pi 's o cabinet cabinet
English name [ ] Bottle Gourd Peel, old pericarp of Bottle Gourd
[ alias ] gourd ladle, breaking the old pot Lu, abortion, abortion, bottle gourd shell gourd, gourd, Chen Hu shell
[ source ]
Medicine source: for the Cucurbitaceae calabash gourd and small gourd old cooked fruit shell.
Latin animal mineral name: Lagenaria siceraria ( Molina ) Standl Lagenaria siceraria ( Molina ) Standl . Var. Depressa ( Ser. ) Hara Lagenaria siceraria ( Molina ) Standl . Var. Microcarpa ( Naud. ) Hara
Harvest and storage: gourds and gourd: take the old ripe fruits in late autumn and early winter, cut, removing pith heart broken, seeds, dried. Small gourd: autumn clothes take shell yellow old cooked fruit, with tiles scrape off the outer thin dried.
[ ] the original morphology
The 1 annual climbing herbs. Stems, branchlets with grooves, to be Serratia villous, old fall off gradually after. Petiole slender, long 16-20cm, hairy; top with 2 glands; leaf blade ovate-cordate or kidney shape egg, long, wide and about 10-35cm, not split into 3-5 split, with 5-7 palmately veined, apex acute, margin irregularly toothed, base cordate, sinus opening, semi-circular or suborbicular both sides, puberulent leaf veins, dorsal and a nasa. Tendril slender, at first has small fluff, Part 2 disambiguation. Monoecious, female, male flowers are single; male flowers: pedicels slender, slightly longer than petioles, pedicels, calyx, corolla are puberulous, calyx tube funnelform, ca. 2cm, lobes lanceolate, long 5mm, corolla white, lobe crisped, length 3-4cm, width 2-3cm, apex emarginate, apex small pointed, veins 5; stamens 3, filaments long 3-4mm, long 8-10mm, anther, oblong, chamber flex; female flowers: pedicels slightly shorter than petiole or subequal; calyx and corolla like male flowers; calyx tube length 2-3mm, ovary middle constricted, densely viscid villous, styles short, stigmas 3, enlarged, 2 crack. At the beginning of fruit production for green to white to yellowish, after the change, fruit shape deformation, due to the different varieties and cultivars vary, a dumbbell shape, length of tens of centimeters, some only a long 10cm, some is flat spherical, rod-shaped or arytenoid, mature skin turned wood. Seeds white, obovate or triangular, pioneer end truncate or 2 tooth crack. Thin circular, ca. 20mm. Flowering of 7-8 months, fr. 8-9.
The 2 kind and adorable hoist the main difference is that: a pepo is flat globose, diameter of about 30cm.
1 small gourd annual climbing herbs. Stems, branchlets with grooves, being soft fluff. Leaves alternate; petiole length 10-20cm, the top has 2 glands, hair; tendril slender, Part 2 for disambiguation, initially retrorsely puberulent; leaf blade ovate-cordate or kidney shape egg, long, wide all 10-30cm, 3-5 does not split or cleft, apex acute, base cordate, sinus opening, edge irregular teeth; palmately veined 5-7. Male and female flowers are single; male pedicels slender, slightly longer than petioles, calyx tube funnelform, lobes lanceolate; corolla white, cleft to crisped, stamens 3, flower room. Female flowers: pedicels slightly shorter than petiole or subequal; calyx and corolla like male flowers; ovary middle constricted, styles short, stigmas 3, 2 crack. Plant more fruit setting; dumbbell shape, lower than the upper, length of less than 10cm. Flowering of 7-8 months, fr. 8-9.
[ ] habitat distribution mainly in Jiangsu and the suburbs of Shanghai and other places, other areas also have.
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Character identification the gourd fruit presented dumbbell, central constriction fine, upper and lower expansion. The lower part of a small, ovate, even the fruit stalk; the upper large, spherical, the top style base. Surface yellowish brown, with a smooth surface. Quality hard. Gas, light.
The gourd is broken shell pieces, irregular in shape, size, thickness of 4-7mm. The outer surface of light yellow, smooth; the inner surface. Hard gas, light.
The small gourd fruit shape with the hoist and the smaller, long 8-10cm.
With yellow and white color, clean, no smell is preferred.
Microscopic identification of powder characteristics:. Wood parenchyma cells of plots, broken, complete a round, rectangular, class of polygonal or irregular in shape, the diameter of 30-132 / m, 3-6 wall thickness of M, sometimes visible in several pit phase into a circular pit field. The stone cells of yellow, multiple groups, long elliptic, triangular in shape, irregular in shape, the diameter of 33-48 m, wall thickness, grain hole groove is obvious. The catheter is threaded diameter 14-26 m, lignans.
[ ] gourd fruit chemical composition containing citrulline ( citrulline ). Gourd hybrid fruit as main component 22 - DNA gourd bitter D ( 22-deoxocucurbitacin D ) and a small amount of 22 - DNA of gourd bitter D ( 22-deoxoisocucurbitacin D ); the seed contains fat, saponins.
[ ] according to the pharmacological effects of gourd Decoction 0.4g / kg to anesthetized dog intravenous injection, there was a significant diuretic effect, and bug shoot with, its role is more; with 2G / kg Decoction to rabbit gastric lavage, daily voiding without increase in total, but the administration of 12h in urine volume increased 40%.
[ ] taste sweet; bitter; flat
[ ] diuresis detumescence functions. The main edema; expansion
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 10-30g; or burned dark at the end of the inquiry. External: moderate, burned dark grinds the powder powder.
[ ] the discussion
1" compendium of Materia Medica": Xiaozhang insecticidal, cure anal fistula in blood, in the collapse, off white.
2" pieces of new reference": water, eliminating swelling of the skin.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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