Chive seeds are warm, pungent and sweet. It has the effect of tonifying the liver and kidney, warming the waist and knees, helping the sun, and fixing the essence. It is used for impotence, spermatorrhea, frequent urination and urination, lumbar and knee pain, cold pain, and excessive leukorrhea. Chive seed oil has the effect of warming the kidney and helping yang: it can improve the excitability of the penis of the deprived rats to external stimulation; enhance the cold resistance and fatigue resistance of the model animals, and increase the number of voluntary activities. Cucumber seeds have calcium, bone grafting, bone, strong body role, the elderly back and leg pain, osteoporosis, osteonecrosis of the bone and femur head necrosis have a very good effect.

Cucumber seeds, alias: Hali Su

Hanyu Pinyin: huang gua zi

Latin botanical and animal mineral name: Cucumis satiuus L.

Chemical composition of traditional Chinese medicine: cucumber seeds contain fatty oils, of which 58.49% is oleic acid, linoleic acid (linoleic acid) 22.29%, palmitic acid (linoleic acid) 22.29%. acid) 22.29%, palmitic acid (palmitic acid) 6.79%, stearic acid (stearic acid) 3.72%[1].

Effects: Renewing tendons and bones; dispelling wind; eliminating phlegm

Family: Cucurbitaceae

Treatments: Fractures and tendon injuries; rheumatism and paralysis; phlegm and asthma in old age

Harvesting and storage: Harvest the ripe fruits in the summer and fall, cut open, take out the seeds, wash them, and dry them in the sun.

Animals and plants: annual trailing herb. Stem and branches elongated, with longitudinal grooves and ribs, white with hard hispid. Tendrils fine, unbranched, white pilose. Leaves alternate; petiole slightly scabrous; leaf blade triangular-broadly ovate, membranous, 12-18 cm long and wide, both surfaces very scabrous, palmately 3-5-lobed, lobes triangular and serrate, sometimes margin ciliate. Calyx briefly narrowly campanulate-cylindric, densely white villous, calyx fissures subulate, spreading nearly as long as calyx; flowerswan*** the same white, ca. 2cm, corolla lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute; stamens 3, filaments nearly absent; female flowers solitary, or sparsely clustered, pedicels stout, pilose. Ovary fusiform, stigmas 3. Fruit oblong or terete, 10-30(-50) cm long, yellowish-green when ripe, surface rough, with spiny verrucose projections, very rarely nearly smooth. Seeds small, narrowly ovate, white, without margin. Flowering and fruiting in summer and fall.

Efficacy classification: renewing the tendons and bones; expectorant; eliminating phlegm

Origin of the herb: seeds of Cucumis sativus (Cucurbita pepo), family Cucurbitaceae.

Use and Dosage

Internally: Ground into powder, 3-10g; or into pills and powder. Externally: appropriate amount, powder and apply.

Source: "Chinese Materia Medica"

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