Trichosanthes rosthornii

Background

Gualoupi ¹ÏÝäƤ Gualouren ¹ÏÝäÈÊ Gualoushuang ¹ÏÝä˪ Quangualou È«¹ÏÝä Chinese Name (pinyin): Gualou

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Common Name  :Trichosanthes Fruit

Specific Name  : Fructus trichosanthis

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Collection  : The drug is collected with fruit stalk in autumn and dried in ventilated shade.

Description  : Subspherical or broadly ellipsoidal, 7 - 15cm long, 6 - 10 cm in diameter. The outer surface orange red or orange yellow, shrunken or relatively smooth, apex with rounded style scar, base slightly acute with remains of fruit stalk. Varying in weight. Texture fragile, easily split. The inner surface yellowish white with reddish-yellow reticulation, sarcocarp orange yellow. Viscous adhering to many seeds into a mass. Odour, caramel-like, taste slightly sour and sweet.

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Processing  : Eliminate fruit stalks and soil, flatten, cut into slivers or pieces.

Action  : To remove heat and eliminate phlegm, to alleviate chest pain, and to facilitate bowel movement.

Indication  : cough with thick purulent sputum; angina pectoris and stuffiness sensation in the chest; mastitis, lung abscess, appendicitis; constipation

Precautions  : Incompatible with aconite and allied drugs.

Dosage  : 9 to 15 g.

Storage  : Preserve in a cool and dry place, protected from mould and moth.

Background

Chinese Name (pinyin): Gualoupi

Chinese Name  :

Common Name  :Snakegourd Peel

Specific Name  : Pericarpium trichosanthis

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Collection  : The drug is collected in autumn when the fruit is ripe, cut, removed from sarcocary and seed and dried in the shade.

Description  : Two to several valves with invalulate edge, 6 - 12cm long. The outer surface orange red or orange yellow, shrunken, sometimes with remains of fruit stalk. The inner surface yellowish whjite. Texture relatively fragile, easily broken. Odour caramel like, taste weak and slightly sour.

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Processing  : Wash clean, dry for a moment, cut into sliver and dry in the sun.

Action  : To remove heat and resolve phlegm, and to smooth the flow of qi in the chest.

Indication  : cough with yellowish sticky expectoration, oppressed feeling in the chest coastal pain

Precautions  : Incompatible with Radix Aconiti and allied drugs.

Dosage  : 6 to 9 g.

Storage  : Preserve in a cool and dry place, protected from mould and moth.

Background

Gualougen èéÂ¥¸ù Huafen »¨·Û Chinese Name (pinyin): Tianhuafen

Chinese Name  :

Common Name  :Trichosanthes Root

Specific Name  : Radix trichosanthis

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Collection  : The drug is collected in autumn and winter, wash clean, peeled, cut into segments or slice longitudinally and dried.

Description  : Irregular cylindrical, spindle shaped or in pieces, 8 - 16 cm long, 1.5 - 5.5 cm in diameter. Externally yellowish white or pale brownish yellow with longitudinal wrinkles, rootlet scars and slightly concave transverse lenticels. Some remained with yellowish brown outer bark. Texture compact, fracture white or yellowish, starchy, wood yellow, somewhat radially arranged in transversely cut section and striated in longitudinally cut section. Odourless, taste slightly bitter.

Identification  : 1.Powder: Whitish, starch granules numerous, simple granules subspheroid, semicircular or helmeted, 6 - 48µm in diameter, hila pointed, shortly cleft or V shaped, striations faintly visible, compound granules consisting of 2 - 8 components. Bordered pitted vessels large, mostly broken, some bordered pits hexagonal or square, closely arranged. Stone cells yellowish green, rectangular elliptical, subsquare, polygonal or fusiform, 27 - 72 µm in diameter, relatively thick walled and densely fine pitted.2.To 2 g of the powder add 20 ml of 50% ethanol, ultrasonicate for 30 minutes, filter, use filtrate as the test solution. Dissolve cittulline CRS in 50% ethanol to produce a solution containing 1 mg per ml use as the reference solution. Carry out the method for thin layer chromatography (Appendix Vl B) using silica gel G as the coating substance and a mixture of n-butanol-absolute ethanol-glacial-water (8:2:2:3) as the mobile phase. Apply separately 6 µl of the test solution, 1 µl of the reference solution to the plate. After developing and removal of the plate, dry it in the air, spray with ninhydrin TS, dry at 105ºC until the coloured spots appear clearly. A spot in the chromatogram obtained from the test solution corresponds in color and position to the spot in the chromatogram obtained from the reference solution

Processing  : Soak briefly, soften thoroughly, cut into thin slices and dry.

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Indication  : thirst in febrile diseases; dry cough due to heat in the lung; diabetes caused by internal heat; sores and abscesses

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Background

Chinese Name (pinyin): Gualouzi

Chinese Name  :

Common Name  :Snakegourd Seed

Specific Name  : Semen trichosanthis

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Collection  : The ripe fruit is picked in autumn and dissected. The seed is collected, washed clean and dried in the sun.

Description  : Seed of Trichosanthis Kirilowii: Flattened elliptical, 12 - 15mm long, 6 - 10 mm wide about 3.5mm thick. Externally pale brown to brown, smooth with circle of furrow along the edge. Apex relatively acute with a hilum, base obtuse or relatively narrow. Testa hard, tegmen membraneous, greyish green, 2 cotyledons, yellowish white and oily. Odor slight, taste weak.Seed of Trichosanthis rosthornii: Relatively large and flattened, 15 - 19mm long, 8 - 10 mm wide, about 2.5 mm thick. Externally brown, the circular furrow distinct and rathe near the inner part. Apex even and truncate.

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Processing  : Eliminate foreign matters and blighted seeds. Wash clean and dry in the sun. Break to pieces before use.Semen Trichosanthis ((stir fried): Stir fry as described under the method for simple stir frying (Appendix 11 D) until inflated. Break to pieces before use.

Action  : To resolve phlegm and to cause lxation.

Indication  : dry cough with sticky sputum; constipation

Precautions  : Incompatible with aconite and allied drugs.

Dosage  : 9 to 15 g.

Storage  : Preserve in a cool and dry place, protected from mould and moth.

Evidence or the Use of Trichosanthes rosthornii in the Treatment of Epilepesy

1st Five Results: pubmed search

Wenqian Wang, Shan Li, Yunguo Zhu, Ruilin Zhu, Xiling Du, Xianghuan Cui, Hongbing Wang, Zhou Cheng
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Foods: 2024, 13(3);
[PubMed:38338638] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P e)

Inkyu Park, Jun-Ho Song, Sungyu Yang, Sungwook Chae, Byeong Cheol Moon
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Front Plant Sci: 2021, 12;559511
[PubMed:34386020] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P e)

Su Mi Park, Sang Kyu Jeon, Ok Hyeon Kim, Jung Yun Ahn, Chang-Hyun Kim, Sun-Dong Park, Ju-Hee Lee
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Chin Med: 2019, 14;43
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Xiankuo Yu, Liying Tang, Hongwei Wu, Xiao Zhang, Hanyan Luo, Rixin Guo, Mengying Xu, Hongjun Yang, Jianwei Fan, Zhuju Wang, Ruiqiang Su
Trichosanthis Fructus: botany, traditional uses, phytochemistry and pharmacology.
J Ethnopharmacol: 2018, 224;177-194
[PubMed:29842965] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

C Yue, L Huang, X Yin, B Yang, X Yon, X Feng
[Morphological studies on 18 species of gualoupi].
Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi: 1999, 24(7);396-7, 446
[PubMed:12205874] [WorldCat.org] (P p)