Sweet potato

[ ]."" Chinese Pharmaceutical Journal
[ ] D ìGu āPinyin name
[ alias ] Kwa, bitter melon, pachyrhizus, Ge melon, kudzu, soil radish (" Chinese Pharmaceutical Journal" ), (" Lu Chuan Ru grass melon Materia Medica" ), turnip, radish ( Jiangxi" Handbook of herbs" ).
[ source ] for leguminous plants Jicama root. The drug is collected in autumn.
[ ] the original morphology of annual herbaceous vines. Roots fleshy, mast, conical or fusiform, up to 10 cm in diameter, outer light yellow, rich in fiber, easy stripping, white meat, sweet and juicy. Stems twining, up to 3～ 7 meters. Compound, alternate;3 lobular, top leaflets rhombic, grow 3.5 ～16 centimeters, wide 5.5～ 18 centimeters, lateral lobes, ovate or rhombic, grow 3.5 ～14centimeters, wide 3~ 13.5cm, margin toothed, or palmately lobed, rarely entire. Flowers pale blue, violet purple or white, length 15~ 20 mm, cluster generation racemes, clusters of basal joint; wing flap and the upper petal length, base of the standard have ears, keel blunt and recurved, and petals equaling or done; styles and stigmas recurved. Pod grows7.5 ～13centimeters, wide 12~ 15mm, is finely roughened Fu Mao; seeds nearly square, wide, ca. 7 mm. Florescence 7 ～ September. Fruit10～ November.
[ ] Taiwan, Fujian habitat distribution, Guangdong, Sichuan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei and other places have cultivation.
[ ] root chemical composition each containing 100 grams of protein and 0.56grams. 0.18 grams of fat,8.2 grams of carbohydrates. The leaves contain yam bean glucoside.
[ ]" Lu Chuan taste of Materia Medica": Gan, cool.
[ indications ]
Thirst.
①Lu Chuan Materia Medica":" thirst, thirst for fever.
The history of Chinese medicine" Sichuan": stop thirsty, hangover poison.
[ usage]: students oral eat or cooked.
[ ] of party in treating chronic alcoholism: sweet potato mixed with sugar. (" Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicines" )
[ ]" * dictionary" excerpt

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