Main functions: clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving sore throat, resolving phlegm and diuresis. Used for sore throat, hoarseness, phlegm-heat cough and dysuria; External treatment of pemphigus and eczema. Hongguniang is a unique health-care perennial herb wild fruit in Chinese history. Originated in China, there are wild resources in the north and south. Physalis alkekengi has been cultivated in China for a long time. In 300 BC, Physalis alkekengi was recorded in Erya. During the Ming Dynasty, the ancients made full use of it. In the sixteenth volume of the old edition of Compendium of Materia Medica, the fifth part of the grass clearly records that the wild fruit of Yanjing is a red girl, with a hanging sac, which contains a red child like a pearl, which is sweet and sour, edible and fragrant, and is also cute. It has many effects in treating jaundice (i.e. jaundice hepatitis), treating various diseases such as cough, wind and heat, 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 eliminate phlegm, and can cure hepatitis, sore throat, cough due to lung heat and so on. It is recorded in the "Interpretation of 400 Flavors of Medicinal Songs in Vernacular" that: the acid pulp is blocked, the lung is cleared and the liver is treated, the throat is swollen and sore, and the hot cough can be safe. According to modern scientific detection, Red Girl is rich in Physalis alcohol AB, Physalis alkekengi, alkaloids, citric acid, carotene, Physalis alkekengi, sitosterol, chlorophenol, cycloartenol, lanolin -8-3B- alcohol and so on. These are rare trace elements in human growth. In the 1970s, the simplified version of Tupu, a Chinese herbal medicine, was recorded as follows: Hongguniang treated children's pertussis, acute tracheitis, diabetes (not effective for insulin injection) edema, and root decoction was effective in treating bacterial dysentery. Modern folk prescription: Hongguniang root decoction has a special effect on hepatitis B. Drinking it with tea can improve eyesight, clear brain, stabilize blood pressure and reduce blood lipid, and there is no dizziness after long-term use.
Nutritional value of Red Girl: Mature fruit is sweet and fragrant, and it is a fruit and vegetable with rich nutrition. Berries are rich in vitamin C, which has certain curative 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. The persistent calyx with swollen acid pulp can be used as medicine, which has the effects of cooling, resolving phlegm, relieving cough and diuresis. Whole grass has purgative effect and can cure gout, but it has the disadvantage of abortion, so pregnant women should not use it. The whole plant can be used as insecticide and ornamental.
Red girl is full of treasure, not only can she be used as medicine, but also her root system is extremely developed, and there are woody underground rhizomes, which have certain protective effects on wind and sand fixation and soil erosion. Due to the changes of climate and environment, most of the country has disappeared except a small part of Northeast China and North China. Red girl has become a natural specialty in some parts of Northeast China. Between the red girl is both medicine and food, and has certain ornamental value, she is also a good hand at preventing wind and fixing sand. Many people regard her as a treasure to earn money. People only regard her as a treasure to earn money, and it is also because the red girl is a herb and a medicine, and a medicine is cured. For example, treating diabetes, wind-heat cough, jaundice hepatitis, and treating hepatitis B with root decoction are all doctors blindly. But also has no side effect and dependence after long-term administration.