August melon, also known as fried August melon, also known as Niushenguo, June melon, Xiaobagua, Nagua, Huanggoushen, Muwanggua, August fruit, Savage melon, Ramulus spinosae, Akebia Akebia, Akebia trifoliata and wild fruit. It is named after the fruit ripens and cracks in August. The banana-shaped fruit is rich in sugar, vitamin C and 12 amino acids, as well as valeric acid, methionine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, lysine and so on, which cannot be synthesized by human body. Sweet fruit, pollution-free green food, known as "native banana." Most of them are Tian Zi scenic spots. There are abundant wild resources in foothills and forests, such as Suoxiyu and Yang Jiajie. As a dominant wild fruit, it is now listed as a key development project by relevant departments. ?

Family (Chinese name): Akebiaceae?

Group (Latin name): Akebiaceae?

Genus (Chinese name): Akebia Akebia?

Species (Latin name): Akebia Akebia? Quinata? (Thunb。 ? )? Decne。 ?

Alias Akebia Akebia, Yangkoukou, Wild Papaya, Zhizi, Fried in August, Fruit-bearing in August?

The source is Akebia pentaphylla of Akebiaceae. Quinata? (Thunb。 )? Decne。 Use roots and rattan stems as medicine. It can be harvested all year round, sliced and dried. ?

It comes from deciduous woody twining vines, which are 3 ~ 15 meters long and hairless. Young branches are grayish green with longitudinal stripes. Palmately compound leaves, clustered at the top of short branches; The petiole is slender. Purple flowers bloom in summer and short racemes are axillary. The fruit is fleshy, berry-shaped, oblong, slightly kidney-shaped, round at both ends, about 8 cm long and 2 ~ 3 cm in diameter. It is purple after ripening, soft and cracked along the abdominal seam. Seeds are numerous, oblong, slightly flat, black or dark brown. ?

Bitter and cold in nature. ?

Functions: clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, dredging meridians, relieving pain, expelling pus and promoting lactation. Used for urinary tract infection, dysuria, rheumatic joint pain, irregular menstruation, erythema, leucorrhea and galactorrhea. ?

Usage and dosage? 1 ~ 3 money. ?

Excerpted from the National Collection of Chinese Herbal Medicine