Eggplant

[ source ] from the" herbal" classification
Pinyin name ] [ Dì Qié Zi
[ ] Fruit of Common Pratia English name
[ alias ] small copper, button, button, pomegranate fruit, rice soup
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Campanulaceae plant Pratia fruit.
Latin animal mineral name: Pratia nummularia ( Lam. ) A. Br. Et Ascher
Harvest and storage:8-9 month recovery, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Pratia perennial herbs, long 12-55cm. Milk white. Stems prostrate, be carried out pilose, unbranched in base with long or short branched, rooting at nodes. Ye Husheng; petiolar long 2-7mm, were carried out pilose; leaf blade cordate or ovate,0.8-1.6cm long,0.6-1.8cm wide, apex obtuse or acute, base obliquely cordate, margin teeth, both surfaces sparsely pubescent; leaf venation palmate. Flowers solitary and axillary; pedicels long0.7 teeth, both surfaces sparsely pubescent; leaf venation palmate. Flowers solitary and axillary; pedicels 0.7-3.5cm, glabrous; calyx Canister Jar shape, length 3-4mm, width 2-3mm, glabrous, lobes strip lanceolate, straight, long 3-4mm, each side2or3small teeth; corolla purplish red, purple, green or yellow-white, long 6-7( -10) mm, corolla tube outside glabrous, inner surfaces pilose, eaves part two Labiatae, lobes 5, lanceolate lobes of upper lip2strip, the lower lip lobes lanceolate; stamens in filaments above middle commissure, filament tube glabrous, anther length of more than1mm, northern, pubescent, apex students below2anthers beard. Berries purplish red, ellipsoidal, long 1-1.3cm. Seeds numerous, subglobose, slightly compressed, surface with small warts. In the mature region annual blossom fruit.
[ ] bitter taste; Xin Ping;
[ ] Qufeng functions; dampness; Qi; blood stasis. The main rheumatic arthralgia; hernia; traumatic injury; emission; leucorrhea
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,30-60g. External: fresh goods amount, trace and apply. For rheumatic arthralgia; traumatic injury; air; stew.
[ note ]" Sichuan" history of Chinese medicine : Damp heat, between people and pregnant women do not use.
[ ] the discussion
1" herbal": classification rule male seminal emission, woman leucorrhea, Qi blood stasis. Cure all dizzy, Qi, stew.
2" Sichuan": history of Chinese medicine Qi, Xiaoji, phlegm, scattered blood, eliminating carbuncle. Treatment of a bleeding, bladder hernia.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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