Luohan Guo

Alias: Lahan Guo, False Bitter Gourd, Light Fruit Wooden Turtle, Jin Buwang, Luohan Table, Naked Turtle Ba

Main Effects: Clearing heat and moistening the lungs, facilitating the pharyngeal opening of the voice, lubricating the intestines and laxative

Chinese herbal medicine Luohan Guo is a flavor of the phlegm to stop coughing and asthma medicine for the Cucurbitaceae plant Luohan Guo's dried fruits

Luohan Guo's place of origin is mainly produced in Guangxi.

Luohan Guo is the dried fruit of Siraitia grosvenorii (Swingle) C. Jeffreyex A. M. Lu et Z. Y. Zhang, Cucurbitaceae.

The traits and characteristics of the medicinal parts of Luo Han Guo:

The product is ovate, ellipsoid or globular, 4.5-8.5 cm long, 3.5-6 cm in diameter. the surface is brown, yellow-brown or green-brown with dark patches and yellow pilose, some with 6-11 longitudinal stripes. There are stylar remnants at the tip and fruiting peduncle scars at the base.

Light, brittle, thin pericarp, easy to break. Fruit scoops (meso- and endocarp) spongy, light brown.

Seeds flat-orbicular, numerous, ca. 1.5 cm long, ca. 1.2 cm wide; light red to brownish-red, slightly concave in the middle of both surfaces, surrounded by radial grooves, with grooves along the edges. Slight gas, sweet flavor.

Luohan Guo is sweet and moist and cool in nature, and should not be taken by patients with wind-cold cold and cough.