The efficacy of the golden wire hanging gourd

Golden Thread Gourd is a perennial herb, 20-40 cm tall, and the whole plant contains milky white milk. The root is long and thin, milky white in texture, and shaped like a ginseng. The stem is erect or creeping, slender, scattered, sparsely hairy below, and slightly smooth at the top. The leaves are symbiotic, with dense basal leaves and similar scattered leaves. The leaves are oblanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 1-3 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, with short pointed tips, microwave-shaped edges, and sparsely blunt teeth. Dark blue flowers bloom at the top of the branches before summer. The flowers have long petioles, 5-toothed calyx, Corolla bell-shaped, 5-lobed, and 5 pistils. The silique is obconical, with a persistent calyx at the top.

Environmental factors and distribution:

It grows on small hillsides, in grass or bushes on sandy soil with sufficient sunlight and good drainage. Distributed from the southern end of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to the northwestern provinces and cities

Collection season:

Vegetable roots are harvested in autumn, and wolfgrass is harvested in spring, summer and autumn.

Poria cocos efficacy and function:

Sweet and neutral. Nourishes blood, nourishes yin, nourishes blood, resolves phlegm, and stops malaria.

Main usage:

Qi and blood deficiency after illness, malnutrition in children, bronchitis, lung deficiency cough, dengue fever, hypertension, secretions. Dosage: 15-60 grams.

Refer to the secret recipe:

1. For vivax malaria: decoct 30-45g of golden thread gourd wolf grass in water, take twice a day, once 2-4 hours before the onset of malaria.

2. Malnutrition: 15-30 grams of fresh golden thread gourd root, or 10-15 grams of dried slices, boiled with meat or raw eggs. Take one dose per day.

3. Night sweats, sweating, secretions: 60-120 grams of fresh golden thread gourd root, stewed with black chicken or pork.

4. Trauma: 30-60 grams of fresh golden thread gourd root, decocted in water and taken with rice wine.

5. Cough due to upper respiratory tract bleeding: 10-15 grams of golden thread hanging gourd wolf grass, add appropriate amount of old rock sugar, decocted in water and taken orally.

6. Cold and cough: 30 grams of Adenophora spicata, 10 grams of Perilla root, 10 grams of loquat leaf, decocted in water and taken orally.

7. Pneumonia, cough and chest pain: 30g of Adenophora scabra, 30g of Morus alba bark, 15g each of Rehmannia glutinosa and Mahonia suspensa, 10g of licorice, decocted in water and taken orally.

8. Tuberculosis, cough, and night sweats due to deficiency of fire: 60 grams of Adenophora tenuifolia, 30 grams of Euonymus japonicus, 30 grams of Rehmannia glutinosa, and a pair of pig lungs. Stew them together and eat the lungs and the soup.

9. Female secretions: 120 grams of Adenophora spicata, 250 grams of clam meat, 60 grams of cuttlefish, and 500 grams of lean pork. Stew them together and take them in 2-3 times.