Sour Tengguo, a Chinese medicine, also known as Sour Qiangzi, Sour Tengtou, Xintongzi, and Xian Suan Guo. Sour Tengguo has the effects of nourishing blood, astringing and stopping bleeding, and is commonly used for symptoms such as blood deficiency and gingival bleeding. Now let's take a closer look at the prescription for Sour Tengguo to increase stomach fire!
[Prescription for Sour Tengguo to Increase Stomach Fire]
Pomegranate seeds, Bi Ba, pepper, dried ginger, short-tailed iron lily, small hot pepper, cardamom, green cardamom, fruit of Amomum tsao-ko, Sour Tengguo, grass jade plum, large leafed cloudseed, Guangming salt, purple sand, red sugar, grind together, and take with boiling water. It can increase stomach fire and treat Bacillus disease.
Sour Tengguo has the effects of nourishing blood and astringing and stopping bleeding, and is commonly used for blood deficiency and gingival bleeding.
Root and leaves: promote blood circulation and relieve pain, anti-inflammatory, stop diarrhea. The root is used for dysentery, enteritis, indigestion, sore throat, and bruises; the leaves are used externally to treat bruises and itchy skin.
Fruit: strengthen the body, nourish blood. Used for amenorrhea, anemia, and insufficient stomach acid. The fruit can be eaten, and the root and leaves are used by veterinarians to treat bloating and fever-induced thirst in cattle.
"Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Medicinal Herbs in Hainan Island": "The fruit and leaves treat vitamin C deficiency and anemia."
"Crystal Pearl Materia Medica": Sour Tengguo kills insects and increases stomach temperature. The fruit is pale red in color and makes a sound when shaken, resembling a bean.
"Metaphorical Morphology": Sour Tengguo has long stems, gray leaves, small and rough, blue-red flowers, small, and the fruit is like frost-killed beans, with a sour and sweet taste. It has the effect of treating insect diseases.
"Calculating the Wheels of the Sun and Moon": Sour Tengguo has a pungent and sharp taste, kills insects, treats gray edema, and has a sharp nature that can cause diarrhea.
[Morphological Characteristics of Sour Tengguo]
Climbing shrubs or vines, rare small shrubs, 1-3 meters long. Leaves are opposite; petioles are 5-8 mm long; leaf blades are thick and papery, inverted ovate or oblong-ovate, 3-4 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, rare up to 7 cm long and 2.5 cm wide, with a rounded, blunt, or slightly concave apex and a wedge-shaped base, with entire margins.
The back of Sour Tengguo is often covered with a thin white powder, with a raised midrib and inconspicuous lateral veins. Inflorescences are cymose, axillary or lateral, borne on leafless branches of the previous year, 3-8 mm long, covered with fine pubescence, with 3-8 flowers, and with 1-2 layers of bracts at the base.
Pedicels are about 1.5 mm long, sometimes covered with fine pubescence, small bracts are lanceolate or oblong, with margin hairs, usually without glandular dots; flowers are tetramerous, about 2 mm long; sepals are fused at the base to about 1/2 or 1/3, equal-sized, ovate or triangular, with an acute apex and glandular dots; petals are white or yellowish, separate, ovate or oblong, with a rounded or blunt apex, about 2 mm long, hairy along the edges, densely covered with papillary projections inside, with glandular dots.
The stamens degenerate in female flowers and slightly exceed the petals in male flowers. The filaments are straight, and the anthers have glandular dots on the back; the pistils are longer than the petals in female flowers, with a bottle-shaped ovary, slender style, and flattened or shield-shaped stigma. The fruit is spherical, about 5 mm in diameter, with inconspicuous glandular dots. Flowering period is from December to March of the following year, and fruiting period is from April to June.
[Pharmacological Effects of Sour Tengguo]
1. Contraceptive effect.
2. Estrogenic and anti-estrogenic activities.
3. Progestin-like and anti-progestin-like activities.
In addition to the medicinal use of its fruit, the root and leaves of Sour Tengguo also have the effects of promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, astringing and stopping diarrhea, treating bruises and swelling, enteritis and diarrhea, pharyngitis, insufficient stomach acid, and dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea.
