Cucumber

[ source ] from the" Guizhou folk prescription set"
Pinyin name ] [ Dì Huá n Gu.
English name [ ] Purpleflower Violet
[ alias ] Shenqi grass, cucumber incense, Viola inconspicua.
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Violaceae plants Viola grypoceras entire grass.
Latin plant animal name: Viola grypoceras A. Gray mineral
Harvest and storage: summer and autumn harvest, clean, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of perennial herb. With the developed root system. Roots stout, vertical, brown; stems several, florescence5-20cm, fruit is high up to 30cm, erect or obliquely students. Basal leaf blade cordate broadly cordate, long 1-4cm, wide 1-3cm, apex seal or slightly pointed, base bent missing narrowly, margin obtusely serrate, both surfaces densely brown glandular dots; cauline leaves triangular-ovate or ovate-cordate narrow, long 1-6cm; basal petioles up to 8cm, cauline leaf petiole short; stipules brown color, narrowly lanceolate, apex acuminate, margin fimbriate long tooth. Flowers pale purple, no fragrance; pedicels from stem base or Gorbachev leaf axil extraction, long 6-11cm, far beyond the leaves; sepals 5, lanceolate, by brown glandular dots, basal auricles end truncate, with shallow tooth; petals 5, narrowly, brown glandular dots long 6-7mm, distance, usually bend down; ovary glabrous, stigmas beaked end bent into a short beak, with wider stigma hole. Capsule ellipsoid, ca.1cm, densely brown glandular punctate, apex mucronate. Florescence 4-5 month, month of fruit period 6-8.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in water grass or under forest wetland.
Resource distribution: distribution in North China, East China, South China, southwest around.
[ character ] characters Kam much shrinkage %. Moist was launched, with elongated root, higher plant, its leaves cauline leaves smaller, larger, three solutions like cordate, base of petiole stipule are lanceolate. Flowers by the cauline leaf axil or base out of this color, light brown. Gas, slightly bitter taste.
[ ] taste slightly bitter cold; cool
[ ] functions of heat-clearing and detoxicating; Sanyu Xiaozhong; cooling blood to stop bleeding. The main sore carbuncle sore throat; breast cancer; radical with conjunctivitis; stab bleeding; injuries; blood; stab bleeding; snake bites
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,9-15g. External: amount, trace and apply.
[ ] the discussion
1" Guizhou folk prescription set:" Xiao sores furunculosis, treatment of impetigo, innominate toxic swelling, and can stop bleeding wounds. 2" Guizhou folk medicine: treatment of swelling and sore".
3" Guizhou herbal medicine": Qingrejiedu, hemostatic, removing blood stasis, detumescence.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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