Pinyin name Gǔ Niǔ Cai
alias Caulis Brassicae Capitatae, Caulis Crocodactylis (Flora of Guangzhou), Caulis Hedysarum, Caulis Solani Thunb, Caulis Sapii Thunb, and Fructus Aurantii (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine).
The source is the whole grass of Solanaceae plant Solanum nigrum. Harvest in spring, summer and autumn.
The original form is an annual erect herb, with branches, bald or nearly bald, and the height is about 1m. The stems are slender and green. Simple leaves alternate, ovate to oblong, 4 ~ 8 cm long, tapering at the apex and mucronate at the base. The edge is nearly entire, or has irregular angular coarse teeth, thin, dark green on the top, with small spots, light green on the bottom, and the veins are raised on the back of the leaves; Petiole slender, about 1 cm long. Inflorescence peduncle axillary, 1 ~ 2.5 cm long, delicate; 2 ~ 5 flowers arranged in umbels; Calyx green, 5-lobed, lobes ovate; Corolla white, 6 ~ 8 mm in diameter; Stamens 5, inserted on the crown and throat, anthers glued into a cone, apical fissure; Ovary 2-loculed, ovules numerous. Fruit is spherical and fleshy, about 5 mm in diameter, green when young and black when mature. Flowering in summer and autumn.
Habitat distribution is distributed all over southern China.
Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine: slightly bitter, cold.
Function indications
Clearing heat, detoxicating, diuresis, dispersing blood and reducing swelling. Treat dysentery, gonorrhea, red eyes, sore throat and furuncle.
1 Flora of Guangzhou: Cooling and dissipating heat can cure slight sore throat.
2 Annals of Medicine in Nanning: Treating the swelling and pain of envy and dysentery.
administration and dosage: decoction, 3-6 RMB (1-2 RMB for fresh food); Or a juice-pounding suit. External use: tamping.
attached prescription
1 for dysentery: rarely spend two to four ounces of Solanum nigrum. Decoct with water.
2. Treatment of heat stranguria: rarely spend two to four ounces of Solanum nigrum, and take it with water.
3 treatment of sore throat: rarely spend four to six ounces of Solanum nigrum. Mash the juice, mix the rice swill for the second time, add a little salt or vinegar, one tablespoon each time, and take it three or four times a day.
4 treatment of hypertension: rarely spend one to three ounces of Solanum nigrum. Decoct with water. If the patient often goes to loose stool, it should not be taken.
5 treatment of sores: rarely spend one to three ounces of Solanum nigrum. Decoct in water; Mash fresh leaves and apply honey to the affected area. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine was selected)
Excerpt from * Dictionary.