The efficacy and function of bitter sky eggplant leaves

Traditional Chinese medicine is very helpful in treating certain diseases, so you can feel free to choose herbs. Solanum lycopersicum leaves are a familiar medicinal material to us. Do you know its effects and functions? Let's take a look.

[Source] Medicinal material source: The leaves of Solanum melongena, a plant of the Solanaceae family.

[Original form] Erect herb to subshrub, 1-2m high. The stem is erect, branched, and densely covered with yellow stiff hairs and needle-like spines. Simple leaves are alternate; petioles are thick, about half the length of the leaf blade; leaf blades are broadly ovate, 6-12cm long, about the same width as length, gradually pointed at the apex, cuneate at the base, 5-7 deeply fissured, with irregular serrations and shallow fissures on the edges of the lobes. Both sides of the leaves are covered with thorny glandular hairs that can secrete mucus, and the veins on both sides are sparsely covered with sharp spines of varying lengths. The scorpion tail inflorescence is extra-axillary, short and few, with solitary or 2-4 flowers; the pedicels are thin and weak, covered with coarse hairs and small spines; the calyx is bell-shaped, green, 5-lobed, and the lobes are lanceolate; the corolla is white or slightly yellow, 5-lobed, and the lobes are lanceolate and covered with hairs. The berries are spherical, with green patterns when immature and light yellow when ripe; there are many seeds, which are light brown. They bloom in spring and summer and ripen in winter.

【Nature and flavor】 Slightly bitter; cool in nature

【Functions and indications】Calming down wind and calming the nerves. The main child was shocked

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decocted in water, 6-9g.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

I believe that friends who were not very clear about bitter sky eggplant leaves at the beginning should now have mastered the relevant knowledge about bitter sky eggplant leaves. I hope this article can be helpful to you.