Red girl belongs to Solanaceae. Its scientific name is physalis franche ei mastvar Bunyardii Mak, and its English name is French ground cherry Calyxoreruite.
Red girl is harvested in spring and summer, and the fruit is ripe in autumn, with red calyx or orange red, and dried. The persistent calyx is slightly lantern-shaped, the surface is orange-red or orange-yellow, and the fruit tastes sweet and slightly sour. Cold in nature and bitter in taste. Plant morphology: the plant height is 30 to 60 cm, and there are creeping rhizomes underground. Flowers solitary leaf axils, calyx campanulate, ca. 6 mm long; The flowers are white, with a diameter of 1.5 to 2 cm. When the fruit is ripe, the persistent calyx grows to 5 cm, which is orange-red with the spherical fruit.
Red maiden is a unique health-care perennial herb wild fruit in the history of China. Native to China, there are wild resources in the north and south. Yogurt has a long history of cultivation in China. In 300 BC, Erya recorded sour pulp. During the Ming dynasty, the ancients made full use of it. The old edition of Compendium of Materia Medica, Volume 16, Part 5, "Grass" clearly records that the wild fruit of Yanjing is a red girl, with hanging sacs and red seeds such as pearls, which are sweet and sour, delicious, fragrant and lovely. It has many functions in treating jaundice (ie, icteric hepatitis), cough, wind-heat and other diseases, improving eyesight, and treating children's internal displacement. At present, it is widely planted in Northeast China. Less cultivated in other areas, it is still a rare vegetable.
Modern medicine believes that Red Girl can relieve sore throat and resolve phlegm, and can cure hepatitis, sore throat, cough due to lung heat and so on. It is recorded in Song Interpretation of 400 Kinds of Drugs in Vernacular Chinese that: acid pulp block, clearing lung-heat and treating liver, sore throat, and hot cough are safe. According to modern scientific detection, Red Girl is rich in Physalis alkekengi AB, Physalis alkekengi, alkaloids, citric acid, carotene, Physalis alkekengi, sitosterol, chlorophenol, chrysophanol, lanolin -8-3B alcohol and so on. These are rare trace elements in human growth. In the 1970s, the simplified version of Chinese herbal medicine Smilax glabra was recorded as follows: Red girl treated children's pertussis, acute tracheitis, diabetes (insulin injection failed) edema, and root soup was effective in treating bacillary dysentery. Modern folk prescription: Honggunianggen decoction has a special effect on hepatitis B. Taking tea instead of drinking can improve eyesight, clear brain, stabilize blood pressure and reduce blood fat, and there is no dizziness after long-term use.
Nutritional value of Red Girl: The ripe fruit is sweet, which is a kind of nutritious fruit and vegetable. Berries are rich in vitamin C, which has a certain effect on aplastic anemia. The fruit has the effect of clearing away heat and diuresis, and can be used externally to diminish inflammation. The whole herb is used as medicine, which has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials, especially for tonsillitis, and the calyx is an antiasthmatic drug. Persistent calyx has swollen acid pulp and can be used as medicine, and has the effects of cooling and resolving phlegm, relieving cough and diuresis. Whole grass has purgative effect and can cure gout, but it has the disadvantage of abortion and is not suitable for pregnant women. The whole plant can be used as insecticide and ornamental.
Red girl is full of treasures, which can not only be used as medicine, but also has a well-developed root system, and there are wooden rhizomes underground, which has a certain protective effect on wind and sand fixation and soil erosion. Due to the change of climate and environment, except for a small part of Northeast China and North China, most parts of the country have disappeared. Red girl has become a natural specialty in some parts of Northeast China. Red girl is not only used as medicine and food, but also has certain ornamental value. She is also a good hand at preventing wind and fixing sand. Many people regard her as a treasure to make money. People only regard her as a treasure to make money, because Red Girl is a herb and a medicine, and it can be cured with one medicine. For example, treating diabetes, wind-heat cough, jaundice hepatitis, and treating hepatitis B with root soup are all directed by doctors blindly. But also has no side effect and dependence after long-term administration.