Alias persimmon pepper, wild pumpkin, water golden gourd, abacus beads, ground golden gourd, blood papaya, mountain golden gourd, wild hairy hawthorn, eight flute orange.

Morphological features shrubs, about 1.5 meters high. Branchlets with gray or brown pubescent. Leaves alternate, long elliptic or elliptic, pointed or obtuse, base broadly cuneate, olive-green or pink-green above, slightly grayish-white below, leaf veins with dense hairs. June-September flowering, flowers small, without petals, one to several clusters in leaf axils, often pendulous; male flowers borne in lower leaf axils, female and male flowers near apical leaf axils, or purely female flowers; July-October fruiting, capsules compressed globose, sunken at the apex, with longitudinal grooves outside. Seeds yellow-red. Roots and fruits are collected in summer and fall, and used fresh or dried.

Growing environment Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other places. Born in thickets on mountain slopes.

Effective flavor bitter taste, cool nature, a small poison. It is used to promote blood circulation, relieve pain, stop diarrhea, eliminate stagnation, and remove dampness.

Selected first formula: 90 grams of wild pumpkin root, an appropriate amount of sweet wine.

Use: the wild pumpkin root slices, plus sweet wine fried 5 times, wine, water, half of the decoction, served in 3 times.

Treatment: migraine. Second formula: 15 grams of wild pumpkin fruit.

Use: Decoction with water.

Treatment: hernia at the beginning. Third formula: abacus leaves, millipede, appropriate amount of each.

Use: Decoction of water to wash the affected area.

Treatment: itching rash. Fourth formula: 30 grams of abacus root, 6 grams of orange peel, 3 slices of ginger.

Use: decoction with water, 1 dose daily.

Treatment: bacterial dysentery. Fifth formula: 60 grams of abacus fruit, 2 eggs.

Usage: first decoction of water to remove the dregs of the medicine, the juice of the boiled egg, divided into 2 times to serve, even peng 2 days.

Treatment: orchitis. The sixth formula: abacus stems and leaves 40 grams.

Use: water decoction.

Treatment: excessive leucorrhea. Seventh formula: abacus root 20 grams.

Use: decoct water and remove the dregs, add brown sugar 10 grams, divided into 2 to 3 times.

Main, treatment: pediatric indigestion, diarrhea, abdominal pain. The eighth formula: abacus root 20 grams, pig intestine (lower section) 30 cm.

Use: add water and stew, remove the dregs, add sugar to taste, take in 2 times.

Treatment: prolapse of the anus.