Epileptic eggplant root

Epileptic eggplant is also known as spiny eggplant. It is an erect subshrub with a height of 0.5 million meters, and each part is covered with villous and straight prickles of the relevant nodes. Leaves papery, broadly ovate, up to 11 cm long or more, 4 × 9 cm wide, apex mucronate or acuminate, base cordate, margin 5-7-lobed or cleft, lobes triangular, long triangular or ovate, margin shallowly undulate; lateral veins as many as lobes, scattered straight spines on them; petiole to 5 cm long. White flowers bloom in summer and autumn, several arranged into axillary Cymes; calyx bell-shaped, outside villous and finely spiny, with 5 ovate lobes; Corolla broadly campanulate, Corolla 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate; stamens 5, born in throat, filaments short, anthers about 2.5 times as long as filaments, glued into a cone, tip extended, pore lobed. The berries are oblate, 3.5-4 cm in diameter, orange-red at maturity and contain many seeds. Often born in wasteland, on the edge of the village, in semi-wet and fertile places along the road. Distributed in our province and Hebei, Liaoning, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hainan and other provinces. Wild or cultivated.