Mouse pulling winter melon Alias: Ma Jiao Er, mouse pulling winter melon, soil pollen, soil Ampelopsis Family: Cucurbitaceae Ma Jiao Er Genus Scientific Name: Melothria indica Lour.[Zehneria indica (Lour.) C. Y. Wu] Original form Perennial herbaceous vine, 1 ~ 2 meters long, with unbranched tendrils. Roots partially expanded into a bunch of fusiform tuberous roots, the same size, so the name of the mouse pull winter melon, rich in starch, so also for soil pollen. Stem slender, weak. Leaves alternate, with slender stalks; leaf blade ovate-triangular, membranous. White flowers in summer. Fruit ovate or subellipsoid, 1-2 cm long, orange-yellow, pericarp very thin, with numerous flattened seeds.　Source for the cucurbit family, the plant is used in medicine by the root or leaves. Leaves are collected in summer, roots are dug in fall, washed and dried or used fresh.　Note: The tuberous roots of Melothria heterophylla (Lour.) Cogn. [Solena heterophylla Lour.] are also used in medicine as well as those of Macaoer.　It is sweet, bitter and cool in nature.　Functions: Clearing heat and removing toxins, subduing swellings and dispersing knots. It is used for sore throat and conjunctivitis; externally for treating sores, swelling and poison, lymph node tuberculosis, orchitis, and skin eczema.　Usage and dosage 3-5 money; for external use, fresh roots and leaves are pounded and applied to the affected area.　Excerpts from the National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicine

Baidu Knowledge > Area > Hainan Twenty years ago in Hainan, when I was living in Hainan's Baisha County, Bangxi Farms sixteen teams, reading is Bangxi Farms two teams. I remember that there is a kind of fruit called the mouse steals winter melon or mouse steals melon, vaguely remember that time we are so called that kind of Dongdong, that Dongdong in the mountains with the outside can be seen, because twenty years have not seen that Dongdong, I can only remember a rough. I hope you know friends can help the fruit is the bottom of the tree near the ground a tree can probably produce 20-40 fruit it. The fruit has small white hairs, the fruit is conical like a persimmon with a tail, green when not ripe, red when ripe, and the fruit is sweet. If the whole ripe if the fruit will split, this time after the split part of the fruit will have a layer of transparent objects, a bit like glue solidified appearance, this layer of transparent gelatinous material is also sweet, sweeter than the pulp. It seems to remember that the fruit is hollow, in fact, is not very empty, just inside the growth of some black black spots, hairy may be the seeds of the fruit it. That's all I can remember