High Quality Trichosanthes kirilowii

FEATURES: Climbing Lianas, up to 10 meters long; tuberous roots Terete, thick hypertrophy, rich in starch, fawn. Stems Coarser, much branched, longitudinally furrowed and Sulcate, white spreading pilose. Leaf Blade papery, nearly orbicular in outline, all about 5-20 cm in length and width, often 3-5(- 7)-lobed to middle-lobed, deeply lobed or undivided with only unequal coarsely toothed, lobes Rhombic-obovate, oblong, apex obtuse, acute, margin often lobed, leaf base cordate, curving to 2-4 cm deep, upper surface dark green, rough, abaxially Pale Green, both surfaces villous-hispid along veins, Basal Palmate Veins 5, veinlets reticulate; Petiole 3-10 cm long, longitudinally striate, villous. Tendrils 3-7 divergent, pilose. Flowers dioecious. Male racemes solitary, or united with a single flower, or solitary above branches, racemes 10-20 cm long, stout, longitudinally furrowed and Sulcate, puberulent, apex 5-8 flowered, single pedicel Ca. 15 cm, pedicel Ca. 3 mm, bracteoles obovate or broadly ovate, 1.5-2.5(- 3) cm long, 1-2 cm wide, coarsely dentate in middle and upper part, stipitate at base, pubescent; Calyx tube-shaped, 2-4 cm long, apex enlarged, Ca. 10 mm in Diam. , Ca. 5 mm in middle and lower part, pubescent, lobes Lanceolate, 10-15 mm long, 3-5 mm wide, entire; Corolla White, lobes obovate, 20 mm long, 18 mm wide, apex central with a green tip, both sides with filiform tassels, pilose; anthers connivent, Ca. 6 mm long, Ca. 4 mm in Diam, filaments separate, stout, villous. Female flowers solitary, pedicel 7.5 cm long, pubescent; Calyx Tube cylindric, 2.5 cm long, 1.2 cm in Diam. , lobes and Corolla staminate; Ovary ellipsoid, Green, 2 cm long, 1 cm in Diam. , style 2 cm long, stigma 3. Fruiting Pedicel Stout, 4-11 cm long; fruit ellipsoid or orbicular, 7-10.5 cm long, yellow-brown or orange-yellow at maturity; seeds ovate-elliptic, compressed, 11-16 mm long, 7-12 mm wide, Yellowish Brown, ribbed near margin. Flowering may-august, fruiting August-october.

HABITAT: Liaoning, north China, east China, China-South Africa, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan, China. Born in 200-1800 meters above sea level under the hillside forest, scrub, grassland and the village next to the field. The traditional Chinese Medicine Trichosanthin and trichosanthes KIRILOWII MAXIM is widely cultivated in its natural distribution area and outside. Found in Korea, Japan, Vietnam and Laos.

The function of trichosanthes Kirilowii Maxim mainly includes clearing heat, clearing phlegm, clearing chest cavity, smoothing dry and smooth intestine. It is used to treat lung heat cough, phlegm yellow and thick, chest pain, swelling of chest, mastitis, carbuncle of lung, intestinal carbuncle and constipation. The Medicine of trichosanthes Kirilowii Maxim is cold, sweet and clear, slightly bitter and can reduce discharge, and enters into the lung Meridian. It is good at clearing away lung heat, moistening lung dryness, and removing phlegm leading stagnation, so it is often used to treat the symptoms of lung heat, phlegm heat cough, chest tightness, phlegm yellow and sticky cough. TRICHOSANTHES KIRILOWII Maxim has the character of bitter cold, it can clear the heat of lung and stomach, resolve phlegm, benefit Qi to open stagnation, disperse stagnation and broad chest. At the same time, trichosanthes KIRILOWII can dispel carbuncle, so it is suitable for treating lung carbuncle, breast carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle and other blood-stasis and heat-toxin diseases. In addition, trichosanthes cold run, into the large intestine by, can run dry smooth intestine, so used for the treatment of gastrointestinal fluid deficiency, intestinal dryness constipation and other symptoms. Modern pharmacological studies also show that trichosanthes KIRILOWII maxim has the effects of antitussive and expectorant, anti-myocardial ISCHEMIA, anti-hypoxia, anti-ulcer, anti-bacterial, anti-platelet aggregation and so on.