Acid vine fruit, also known as sour fruit, sour vine head, sour strong fruit, letter tube fruit, salty sour fruit. The root and leaves can disperse stasis and relieve pain, contract and relieve diarrhea, treat bruises and swelling, enteritis and diarrhea, pharyngitis, low stomach acid, dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea. The fruit can be eaten and strengthens blood. The root and leaves are used by veterinarians to treat bloating and thirst caused by cattle injuries and heat diseases.
【Morphological Characteristics of Medicinal Materials】
This herb is spherical or elliptical, with a diameter of 3-8mm. The surface is green-brown or gray-purple, often with wrinkles. The top has a residue of the style, and the bottom is often attached to a fruit stalk of 2-5mm long and a small calyx. The fruit skin is brittle and easy to peel; the seeds are often covered with brown seed coat, and the endosperm is hard, with a yellow-white horny appearance. The outer side also shows the pattern of seed coat inlaying into the endosperm. It has a slight smell and a mild taste, and chewing it for a long time gives a spicy and numbing sensation.
【Chemical Composition】
It contains ardisinol I, II, ardisin, dergenin, embelin, rapanone, quercetin glycosides, volatile oils, etc.
【Ancient Records】
1. According to the "Jingzhu Materia Medica", acid vine fruit kills insects and raises stomach temperature. The fruit is pale red and makes a sound when shaken, resembling a bean. The "Morphological Metaphor" records that the stem of acid vine fruit is slender and long, the leaves are gray and small, and rough; the flowers are blue and red, and small; the fruit is like frosted beans, with a sour and sweet taste. It has the effect of treating insect diseases. According to the investigation, this record in the "Jingzhu Materia Medica" is consistent with this herb.
2. "Luchuan Materia Medica": anti-inflammatory and bactericidal. It is used to treat oral inflammation, pharyngitis, gingivitis, and ulcers. It also detoxifies the poison of big tea medicine, wood mushrooms, and croton seeds.
3. "Nanning City Pharmacopoeia": insecticide, anti-swelling, and digestion. It is externally used to treat bruises, ulcers, and internal and external hemorrhoids (and wash externally), sore throat, and foot pain (caused by dog foot food).
4. "Common Chinese Herbal Medicine Manual" of the Guangzhou troops: promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, contracting and relieving diarrhea. It is used to treat bruises and pain, enteritis and diarrhea, and throat swelling and pain.
【Selected Chinese Medicine Recipes】
1. Vermifuge Powder: 100g of iron rod hammer, 550g of acid vine fruit, 200g of hezi, 100g of musk, 100g of Acorus calamus, 50g of musk (except for musk, grind the other five ingredients into fine powder, sift, and mix with musk powder). It has the effect of expelling worms. It is used for head worms, tooth worms, internal parasites, roundworms, and skin parasites. It has a special effect on worm-induced intestinal colic. Take it with boiling water.
2. Pomegranate seeds, bitter gourd, pepper, dried ginger, short-tailed iron thread lotus, small chili, nutmeg, cardamom, grass fruit, acid vine fruit, grass jade plum, large leaf yunshi, guangming salt, purple sand, red rock sugar. Grind them together and take with boiling water. It can increase stomach fire and treat bacon disease.
3. Seven Flavored Acid Vine Fruit Powder: acid vine fruit, asafoetida, purple ore, garlic, Tianxianzi, nutmeg, jujube, etc. Grind them into fine powder. Take the decoction of dried rhizome and drink it. It can treat heartworm disease.
4. Cinnamon, dried ginger, bitter gourd, pepper, short-tailed iron thread lotus, small chili, acid vine fruit, asafoetida, purple sand, brown sugar. Grind them into powder and take it orally. It is used to treat bacon descending into the small and large intestines.
5. White sand, purple sand, acid vine fruit, Artemisia argyi charcoal, etc. Grind them into fine powder, make them into pills with brown sugar, and take them orally. It is used for blockage caused by worms.
