Melon leaf

[ source ] from the" Hua Zi" on Chinese Materia Medica
[ ] Pinyin name Dō n Gu āY è
[ ] Leaf of Chinese Waxgourd English name
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: for the Cucurbitaceae melon leaf.
Latin animal mineral name: Benincasa hispida ( Thunb. ) Cogn.
Harvest and storage: the summer to take, use fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of annual herbaceous or climbing frame. The stem is tawny hirsute and villous, angled trench, ca.6m. Leaves alternate; petiole stout, long 5-20cm, being brown bristles and villous; leaf blade reniform suborbicular, wide 15-30cm5-7lobed or sometimes lobed, lobes broadly ovate, apex acute, margin denticulate, base deeply cordate, both sides were rough, veins on abaxial leaf surface mesh, slightly elevated, dense the coat. Zheng must in leaf axils,2-3disambiguation, is coarse hair and long pilose. Flowers unisexual, monoecious; flowers solitary in axils of leaves, pedicels are stiff hairs; calyx tube debate, lobes triangular ovate, margin serrate, reflexed; corolla yellow,5divided to base, outreach; male flowers with stamens 3, filaments division, anthers ovate, chamber is in a S shape bend; female ovaries a long cylindrical or long ovate, densely fulvous hirsute, stigmas 3, slightly twisted. Pepo large, fleshy, round columnar or subglobose, length 25-60cm, diameter 10-25cm, surface with bristles and wax powder. Seeds numerous, ovoid, white or pale yellow, compressed. Florescence 5-6 month, month of fruit period 6-8.
[ ] habitat distribution throughout the country have cultivation.
[ ] taste bitter cold;
[ ] the lung meridian; large intestine meridian
[ ] functions of heat dampness; detoxification. The main type of summer humidity; diarrhea; malaria, sore; bee sting.
[ usage]:9-15g orally taken decoction. Topical, moderate, research application.
[ ] the discussion
1" Materia Medica": Hua Zi on swelling drug administration and bee sting.
2" schema": diabetes, malaria fever; and baking research on years of malignant sore.
3" with interest in dietary spectrum": qingshu. Cure malaria, dysentery, diarrhea, thirst.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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