Trichosanthes root is a traditional Chinese medicine, and it is a medicine for clearing away heat and purging fire. Its specific effects are clearing away heat and purging fire, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, expelling pus and reducing swelling. Indications: Treating fever, thirst, jaundice, lung dryness, hemoptysis, carbuncle swelling, hemorrhoids and flaccidity. For the treatment of diabetes, it is often used in combination with nourishing yin drugs to achieve the effect of treating both the symptoms and the root causes. Materia Medica Justice: The so-called Trichosanthes in pharmaceutical factories is to slice wilting roots, which has the name of powder, but not the reality of powder. Trichosanthes root is the root of cucurbitaceae.

Trichosanthes kirilowii is a climbing vine with a length of 10m. The tuberous root is cylindrical, thick and rich in starch. The stem is thick, multi-branched, with longitudinal edges and grooves, white and spreading. The flowering period is May-August, and the fruiting period is 8-65438+1October. Its original plants like warm and humid, sunny environment, not drought-tolerant, afraid of waterlogging, suitable for growing in the low and middle mountain areas where winter is warm and summer is cool. The annual average temperature is about 20℃, and the average temperature in July is below 28℃ and above 65438 0.6℃, which is beneficial to plant growth and development. Born on slopes, grasslands, and semi-shady places on forest margins. Distributed in southwest China, South China, South China, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places.

Excavate in autumn and winter, wash, remove fibrous roots and skins, cut into 2-4 petals longitudinally, and then cut into several sections or oblique slices to dry. Or directly drying. Slightly cold, sweet and slightly bitter. Enter lung meridian and stomach meridian. Clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, reducing swelling and discharging pus. Qingre Xiehuo Powder belongs to the classification of heat-clearing drugs. Dosage: 10 ~ 15g, decocted in water. It can be used for treating fever, polydipsia, lung heat, dry cough, thirst quenching due to internal heat, and sores and swelling. Modern pharmacological studies have found that Trichosanthes root mainly contains protein, polysaccharides, saponins, amino acids and other components, which are mainly used for regulating immunity, enhancing resistance, antioxidation, anti-tumor and other functions. Now it is widely used and studied, and its future prospect is broader.

The contraindications of Trichosanthes root can resist early pregnancy and abortion, and sometimes kill embryos. Because of its slight cold, it is not suitable for patients with spleen-stomach deficiency or diarrhea, nor for pregnant women, nor for compatibility with aconite drugs.