Nicknames: Ku Ku, Pu Lu, Ku Hu, Yue Hu, Yue Fu Hu, Ku Hu Lou, Ya Yao Hu Lu, Long Handle Tea Pot Lu, Medicinal Pot Lu, Thin necked Gourd, Long Handle Gourd, Golden Gourd, Beijing Gourd, Small Gourd
Harvesting and processing: In autumn, fruits that have matured but have not yet undergone lignification are harvested and peeled.
Medicinal parts: Fruit
Origin: National
Science: Cucurbitaceae
Original plant: Bitter gourd (small gourd)
Plant condition: Annual climbing herb
Stems and branches have grooves and are covered in soft soft fur.
Mutual growth of leaves; The petiole is 10-20cm long, with 2 glands at the top and covered with hairs; The tendrils are slender, with two branches on the upper part, initially covered in soft hairs; The leaves are ovate heart-shaped or renal ovate in shape, with a length and width of 10-30cm, either undivided or 3-5 lobed, with a sharp apex and a heart-shaped base. They are curved and open, and have irregular teeth on the edges; Palm veins 5-7.
Both male and female flowers are solitary; Male flowers have slender peduncles, slightly longer than petioles, funnel-shaped sepals, and lanceolate lobes; The corolla is white, with a wrinkled and wavy shape, 3 stamens, and a curved flower chamber. The flower stem of female flowers is slightly shorter or nearly equal in length to the petiole; The sepals and corollas resemble male flowers; The ovary is constricted in the middle, the style is thick and short, and the stigma is 3-2 lobed.
The plants are more sturdy; The fruit is dumbbell shaped, with the lower part larger than the upper part and less than 10cm in length. The flowering period is from July to August, and the fruiting period is from August to September.
Characteristics of Ku Hu Lu medicinal herb:
The medicinal properties of Ku Hu Lu:
Taste bitter, cold, and toxic. Treating floods, swelling of the face and limbs, entering the water, making people vomit. Shengchuan Ze.
【 Origin 】 It is produced in Shanxi, China, and is also found in many other provinces. Its flesh and seeds are used as medicine.
[Taste] Bitter in taste, cold in nature, and toxic.
【 Indications 】 Ku Hu is used to treat edema, relieve urination, promote lymphatic circulation, and treat sores.
[Su Jing] Li Shilin, spit and cough. Swelling and phlegm secretion. Boiling juice and soaking Yin again can treat urinary obstruction.
Boiling juice drips yellow water from the nose to relieve cold nasal congestion and jaundice.
Ming Dynasty vomited roundworms.
[Dosage] Ordinary two to three yuan, no fixed amount for large doses.
[Taboo] Those who excessively indulge in excessive consumption of bitter gourd should be treated with millet ash juice.
【 Compound 】
① To treat swelling throughout the body: one bitter gourd membrane is divided into two parts, and the stem and stem are divided into five parts. Mix the two ingredients together to make a pill, take it like Xiao Dou Da Wu Wan, three days a day. Seven pieces of jujube flesh, with a bitter gourd film as big as jujube pits. Take three pills at once, like fifteen miles, take three more pills, and take one pill when the water comes out. (From "Qian Jin Fang")
② To control water swelling and swelling: Take one bitter gourd and boil it in two liters of water until it reaches one liter. Fry it until it becomes a pill, the size of a small bean. Drink ten pills per meter, wait for convenience, make small bean soup, do not drink water. (Gangmu)
③ Treating stone water, thinning limbs, and abdominal swelling: one or two almonds (soaked in soup, peeled and pointed, stir fried) and one or two bitter gourds (lightly stir fried with film) each. Add two flavors, mash until fine, then cook batter and balls, similar in size to small beans. Take ten pills each time, drink rice, take three times a day, and let the water flow out. (Almond Pills in St. Francis' Chronicles)
④ Treating bloating and yellow swelling: Yayao Hulu Lianzi has a burning nature. Take one of them before eating, warm the wine and drink it. For those who do not drink, drink white soup. (Simple and Convenient)
⑤ To treat jaundice: The flesh of bitter fenugreek is as big as a jujube. Soak it in two parts of a child's urine, eat three or two parts per hectare, take two parts of sour jujube juice, and divide it into two nostrils. (Outer Channel)
⑥ Treating typhoid nasal congestion and jaundice: Boil bitter gourd and drip the juice into the nose to produce yellow water. (Materia Medica Collection)
⑦ Treating jaundice: Boil the white flesh and seeds of the gourd until they turn yellow, then mash them into powder. Take a half dollar dagger, once a day, for ten days. (Fan Wang Fang "jaundice powder)
⑧ Treating Head Wind: Crush the bitter gourd to extract juice, and twist the reed tube into the nose. The medicine rushes to the forehead, and in a moment, saliva flows down, thick and thick. Do not suspect dizziness. (Holy Blessing Formula)
⑨ Treating hemorrhoid swelling and pain: Ku Hu Lu, Ku Ji Cai. Boil the soup, smoke it first and then wash it, then stick it with bear bile, secret monk, bile alum, and sliced brain powder. ("Extracting Yuan Formula")
⑩ Treating sores, ringworm, and leprosy: Boil one bitter gourd and apply it with boiling juice, three times a day. (Behind the Elbow)
11. Treatment of axillary galls: Long handled teapot Lu (burning type), grind and apply to the ground, with the degree of elimination. (A Brief Introduction to the Collection by the Lake)
12. Treatment of pterygium and blood opacities: In autumn, take a small handle or medicine pot Lu, dry it in the shade, cut it off at the tight spot, and dig a small hole inside that is as big as an eye hole. When encountering this disease, use your hands to break open the eyelids up and down, and close the pot with a hole. At first, although it was very painful, the blood stasis and opacity gradually decreased, and it did not harm the eyes. ("Baoshou Hall Experience Formula")
(13) Treatment for dark eyes: Bitter gourd is white in color. Grind the juice and mix it together. Take one liter of vinegar and seven ancient coins, soak them in water. Fry over low heat and reduce the amount by half. Add rice to the corners of the eyes. (From "Qian Jin Fang")
(14) Treatment for stillbirth: Ku Hu Lu (burning type) grinding powder. Each serving costs one yuan, and the empty hot wine is served. (Sea Names)“
【 Taste 】 Bitter taste; Sexual coldness
Returning to the kidneys; Lung; Spleen meridian
【 Functions and Indications 】 Water retention; detumescence; Clear heat and disperse lumps. Main edema; Jaundice; Quench thirst; Longbi; Swelling and malignant sores; Scabies
[Usage and Dosage] Oral administration: decoction, 6-9g; Or into pills or powder. External use: Boil water for fumigation, boil juice for application, or drip on the nose.
【 Attention 】 Avoid taking it for those who are weak and weak due to deficiency cold. Yu Qiao: People with athlete's foot and weak bloating should not eat cold air, especially when eating.
【 Discussions from Various Schools 】
1. "Benjing Fengyuan": Bitter gourd is used to treat yellow dampness and water vapor, which can cause urinary and fecal obstruction. It can lead to sudden illness and can be easily robbed. If taken by mistake due to chronic stomach deficiency, it will inevitably lead to persistent vomiting and diarrhea, often resulting in death. However, it can be caused by carelessness! His son treats nasal congestion, eye diseases such as pterygium and blood opacities, and takes bitter cold to reduce internal heat.
2. "Shennong Bencao Jing": It is known for its ability to handle large floods, with swollen facial features and limbs. Going into the water makes people vomit.
3. "Treatise on Medicinal Properties": Treatment of water swelling, facial and limb swelling. Due to heavy water and qi illness.
4. "Tang Bencao": The main symptoms include edema, stone discharge, vomiting and coughing (also known as "yaosh"), and light drinking of cystic nodules. Boil it again with juice, stain it with yin, and treat urinary obstruction.
5. Meng Qiao: Master in quenching thirst and treating sores.
6. "Herbal Collection": Boil the juice and drip it into the nose to produce yellow water, to remove nasal congestion and jaundice caused by typhoid fever. Boil again to make it hot, untie it, and iron the child's flash fetish.
7. "Rihuazi Bencao": Relieves annoyance and thirst, treats heart heat, benefits the small intestine, nourishes the heart and lungs, treats stone gonorrhea, and vomits roundworms.
8. Compendium of Materia Medica: Treat patients with carbuncles, sores, scabies, dental caries, and insect infestations.
9. "A Study of Plant Names and Facts": It can vomit people, but most miasma can be eliminated by vomiting. "