Bitter eggplant has the effect of dispelling wind, relieving pain, clearing heat and detoxification. Fresh fruit is mashed to place toothache to treat toothache.

Bitter eggplant

Bitter eggplant, the name of traditional Chinese medicine. Is the fruit of Solanum khasianum C.B.Clarke, a Solanaceae plant. Distributed in Yunnan and other places. It has the effect of dispelling wind and relieving pain, clearing heat and detoxification. Often used for rheumatism arthralgia, headache, toothache, breast carbuncle, gills, falling pain.

Alias

Bitter belladonna, yellow horn thorn, thorn eggplant, thorn eggplant, sky eggplant, valley sparrow egg, sky bubble seed, add money fruit, dog eggplant, fruit horn eggplant, Pueraria lobata, golden marbles.

Medicine site

Fruit.

Sexual taste

The taste is slightly bitter, cold and poisonous.

Channel tropism

The meridians of heart, liver and stomach.

Efficacy

Dispelling wind and relieving pain, clearing heat and detoxification.

Main treatment

Rheumatism arthralgia, headache, toothache, mastitis, gills, falling pain.

Related compatibility

1, to treat the sores that will emerge: prickly eggplant leaves, fruit drying and research, aggravating building powder, honey blending and external application. ("Common folk herbs in Kunming")

2. Treat toothache: smash the fresh fruit of prickly eggplant and place it in a toothache place. (Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine)

Usage and dosage

Internal administration: fried soup, 3-6g. External use: appropriate amount, tamping or research.

Collection and processing

Harvested in autumn, fresh or sun-dried.

Morphological characteristics

Erect herbs to subshrubs, 1-2 m tall, up to 3 m, stems, branches, leaves, and flower stalks mixed with yellow-white nodal hirsute, hispidulous, glandular hairs and yellowish base broadly flattened straight spines, spines 2-15 mm long, 1-5 mm wide, base dark yellow.

Leaves broadly ovate, 6-12 cm long, about as wide as long, apex acuminate, base hastate, 5-7-parted, lobe margin irregularly toothed and lobed; dark green above, indumentum denser at leaf veins

The lower part is light green, with sparse scattered stellate hairs in addition to the same indumentum as above; lateral veins equal to the number of lobes, flat above, slightly protruding below, scattered with broad flat spines at the base, spines ca. 5-15 mm; petiole stout, about half of leaf blade.

Scorpion tail axillary, short and few-flowered, solitary or 2-4-flowered, pedicel ca. 1 cm; calyx campanulate, green, ca. 1 cm in diam., ca. 7 mm, 5-lobed, lobes oblong-lanceolate, ca. 5 mm long, ca. 1.5 mm wide, with fine straight spines and cilia outside, marginal cilia longer and denser

Corolla tube yellowish, concealed in calyx, ca. 1.5 mm; limb white, 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate, ca. 14 mm long, ca. 4 mm wide, veined, apex reflexed when open

Filaments ca. 1.5 mm, anthers extended at tip, ca. 7 mm, apical pore upward; ovary globose, tomentulose, style slender, ca. 8 mm, smooth, stigma truncate.

Berries globose, ca. 2-2.5 cm in diam., initially green-white, with green patterns, yellowish at maturity, persistent calyx ciliate and fine straight spines, then gradually deciduous; seeds yellowish, subObovate, flattened, ca. 2.5 mm in diam.

The flowering period is spring and summer, and the fruit ripening stage is winter.

Growing environment

Born under the forest in the mountains, by the gully of the wasteland. Distributed in Yunnan and other places.

Related discussion

Common folk herbs in Kunming: anti-inflammation and detoxification, sedation and pain relief. To treat rheumatism, neuropathic headache, stomachache, toothache, mastitis and mumps. "