Fengyan fruit, as a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, has many benefits. Let's take a look at the pictures and plant morphology of Fengyan fruit.
[Original Form of Fengyan Fruit Shell]
Pomelo, a tall tree that can reach up to 10 meters. The bark is blackish-brown, and the branches are slightly covered with stellate hairs when young. The leaves are opposite; leaf stalks are 2-3.5 cm long; leaf blades are thin and leathery, oblong or elliptic, 8-25 cm long, 5-15 cm wide, with acute or blunt tips, and rounded or blunt bases, both sides without hairs.
The flowers are in rounded cone-shaped or axillary panicles, up to 20 cm long, with short soft hairs; flowers are unisexual, without corolla; calyx is pale red, bell-shaped, covered with short soft hairs on the outside, 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate in shape, gradually pointed towards the apex and inwardly curved, sticking together at the apex, equal in length to the bell-shaped calyx tube; there are more male flowers, stamens and pistils are bent, without hairs, anthers are yellow.
There are fewer female flowers, slightly larger, ovary is globose with 5 grooves, densely covered with hairs, style is bent, and stigma is shallowly 5-lobed. The fruit is fresh and red, thick and leathery, elongated oval in shape, about 5 cm long and 2-3 cm wide, with a beak at the apex, and each fruit contains 1-4 seeds.
The seeds are elliptical or oblong, blackish-brown, with a diameter of about 1.5 cm. The flowering period is from April to May, but a few plants may bloom for the second time in October and November.
[Benefits and Functions of Fengyan Fruit]
Fengyan fruit is mainly used for promoting digestion, dispelling toxins, and killing parasites. It is used for reversing stomach vomiting, abdominal pain due to intestinal parasites, hernia pain, and pediatric scalp sores.
①Yao Kecheng's "Food Materia Medica": "It is used for treating intestinal parasites in the viscera and children who eat soil, abdominal pain, and hard masses. It nourishes the liver and gallbladder, improves eyesight, relieves cough and fever, relieves wind and cold, relieves irritability, and reduces heat."
②"Essential Information on the Nature of Medicinal Herbs": "It is used for treating pediatric scalp sores, crush it and apply it with oil; it dispels heat, and is boiled with meat."
[Fengyan Fruit Compound]
①Used for treating upper abdominal pain caused by ascariasis, with a feeling of near-death and white spots on the face: 7 pieces of Luo Huang Zi (Fengyan fruit shell) and 7 pieces of Qian Niu Zi. Decoct in water and take orally.
②Used for reversing stomach vomiting, immediate expulsion of food after eating; or vomiting in the morning and eating in the evening, and vomiting in the evening and eating in the morning: 7 pieces of Luo Huang Zi. Crush it and take 1 spoonful of the powder mixed with wine every day, until complete recovery.
③Used for hernia pain: 7 pieces of Luo Huang Zi. Decoct in wine and take orally. (Selected from Yao Kecheng's "Food Materia Medica")
[Fengyan Fruit Pictures]
Fengyan Fruit Photo
Fengyan Fruit Photo
