Sweet fruit

[ source ] from the" Guizhou folk medicine"
Pinyin name ] [ D ìGu āGu ǒ
[ alias ] to pomegranate fruit, Lang, loquat fruit, sweet potato
[ source ]
Source: for medicinal plants of the family Moraceae Ficus tikoua the syconium ( FIGS ), dried.
Latin botanical name: Ficus tikoua Bur. animal fossil
Harvest and storage: the summer harvest is not yet mature syconium ( FIGS ), dried.
[ ] the original morphology of perennial deciduous creeping shrubs. The whole plant has milk. Stem cylindrical or slightly flat, Tan, ramose much, an inflated, a student of elongated adventitious root. Leaves alternate; petiole1-2cm; leaf blade and papery, ovate or obovate elliptic, long 1.6-8cm, wide l-4cm, first Swiss blunt, base nearly rounded or shallowly cordate, margin sparsely shallowly undulate serrate, green above, be short bristles, the rough, light green, along the vein is short; most three arteries and veins, lateral veins 3-4 pairs. Syconium, paired or clustered on leafless short branch, common sense in the soil, globose or ovoid,1-2cm diameter, light red when mature; basal bracts 3; male flowers and gall flowers in the same inflorescence support, tepals 2-6, stamens 1-3( -6); female flowers in a sequence of other support. As a result of achenes. Florescence 4-6 month, month of fruit period 6-9.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in low mountain woodlands, slopes, or the desert edge in the grass.
Resource distribution: distribution in the southwest and Shaanxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Tibet and other places.
[ character ] trait identification of cryptogamic fruit was spherical or ovoid,0.4-l.2cm diameter. Surface yellow-green or pale red, shrinkage, base the Ministry has a short handle. Cut open after visible fleshy receptacle wall with many small achenes. Gas micro, micro meter, micro astringent taste.
[ ] taste sweet; slightly cold
[ ] functions of heat-clearing and detoxicating; Shibuya fine zhiyi. The main throat; emission emission
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,9-30g; or soaked with boiling water to drink.
[ ] the paper" Guizhou folk medicine" : heat spreading poison, Qufeng desiccant. Throat pain.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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