This product is the dried root tuber of Trichosanthis Fruit (Trichosanthes kirilowii Maxim.) or Japanese Trichosanthis Fruit (Trichosanthes japanica Regel), a perennial herbaceous vine of the bottle gourd peel family. Produced in all parts of north and south China. Excavated in autumn and winter, used fresh or cut into segments, blocks, slices and dried in the sun.

[Property]

sweet and slightly bitter, slightly cold. act on lung and stomach channels.

[Efficacy]

clearing heat and promoting fluid production, relieving dryness and moistening lung, removing toxin to dissipate carbuncle.

Treatment of influenza, enterovirus, and various viral colds, Chinese medicine is more refined, non-toxic, and effective than Western medicine

1. Used for Rebing thirst, consumptive thirst and polydipsia. This product is sweet and cold, good at clearing stomach heat and nourishing stomach yin, and has the effect of promoting fluid production to quench thirst. Used for Rebing body fluids, dry mouth and polydipsia, often used with Reed Rhizome and Ophiopogon Tuber; used for yin deficiency with internal heat, consumptive thirst, polydipsia, often used synonymously with Pueraria Root and Chinese Yam, such as Jade Fluid Decoction.
2. Used for lung heat and dry cough. This product can clear lung heat and moisturize lung dryness. Used for dryness-heat damaging lung, dry cough with less phlegm and blood in the sputum, etc. It is often used with Asparagus Root, Ophiopogon Tuber, Unprocessed Rehmannia Root is the same as Zi Zaoyin.
3. For carbuncle sore and ulcer. This product has the effects of clearing heat and removing toxin, reducing swelling and expelling pus. Used for sore and ulcer when the heat toxin is raging at the beginning. It can be used to dissipate the pus before it turns into pus. When the pus has turned into ulcer, it can be expelling pus. Often used synonymously with Lonicera, Dahurian Angelica, Pangolin Scales, such as Immortal Formula Life-Saving Decoction .

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "It is mainly used for consumptive thirst, body heat, irritability, and severe heat. It can replenish deficiency, stabilize the center, and repair injuries."
2. Rihuazi Bencao: "It can clear the small intestine, expel skin, reduce swelling and toxins, grow muscles, eliminate static blood damage. Treat fever, acute mastitis, back gangrene, hemorrhoids, fistulas and sores."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take 10-15g.

[Precaution]

Pregnant women should not take it. It is against Aconite Mother Root.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains Snakegourd Root protein, saponins, starch, etc.

• Snakegourd Root protein is an active ingredient in intermediate stage [second stage] induction of labor and treatment of malignant hydatidiform mole and choriocarcinoma. It directly acts on the placental trophoblast cells to cause degeneration and necrosis, causing the chorionic membrane gonadotropins to drop below the critical level that threatens late abortion, leading to fetal death and delivery.
• Sometimes it can cause allergic reactions.
• High doses can cause degeneration and necrosis of liver and kidney cells.
• Has certain anti-cancer effects.
• Has strong inhibitory effect on hemolytic streptococci, pneumococci, and diphtheria bacilli.
• In recent years, it has been discovered that Snakegourd Root protein has an inhibitory effect on the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome virus, which can improve the body's immunity and prolong the survival time of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome patients.