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The alias of papaya is iron foot pear, xuan papaya, papaya begonia, light skin papaya, wood pear, etc., papaya tree can be used for ornamentation, papaya fruit has a unique aroma, sour taste, boiled or impregnated in sugar solution, edible. At the same time, papaya is also a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effect of relaxing muscles and activating the muscles, and dissolving dampness of the stomach, and is often used to treat wet spasms, waist and knee joint pain, beriberi edema, summer dampness and vomiting and other diseases. The "Famous Doctors" recorded: "The Lord was wet and paralyzed, cholera vomited, and the tendons did not stop." ”
Plant morphology
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◑ Deciduous shrub with thorns.
◑ Leaves ovate to ovate, wedge-shaped at the base, sharply serrated margins, glabrous or pubescent along the veins below, leathery, kidney-shaped or semi-circular.
◑ The flowers are open first, and 3~5 flowers are clustered; peduncles short and stubby; calyx bell-shaped, sepals blunt at apex, fully marginal or with wavy teeth; petals inverted ovate or nearly round, scarlet; stamens 45~50; peduncle 5, basal synphytic, glabrous or slightly hairy.
◑ The fruit is spherical or ovate, yellow or yellow-green, with sparse and inconspicuous spots, aromatic taste; The peduncles are short or nearly sessile.
◑ The flowering period is 3~5 months, and the fruit period is 9~10 months.
Medicinal properties
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◑ Oblong, split in half longitudinally.
◑ The outer surface is purple-red or reddish-brown, with irregular deep wrinkles: the edge of the profile is curled inward, the reddish-brown center part of the flesh is concave, and the brownish-yellow seeds are flat and triangular, and they fall off more.
◑ Hard. The air is slightly fragrant and sour.
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It is the dry, near-ripe fruit of the Rosaceae plant Begonia.
Nickname
Begonia, iron-footed pear, Sichuan papaya
Origin
Mainly produced in Sichuan, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hunan, the medicine is mainly wrinkled papaya. Xuan papaya is the best, followed by Sichuan papaya, and papaya.
Harvesting and processing
In summer and autumn, the fruits are harvested when they are green and yellow, blanched in boiling water until the skin is grayish white, cut in half longitudinally, and dried in the sun.
Sexual taste and attribution
acid, warm; Attributed to the liver, spleen meridian.
efficacy
Calm the liver and relieve tendons, and stomach moisture.
Usage and dosage
Pan-fried, 5-10g.
Notes
This product is sour, contains tulips, and urine is short and red should not be used.
Clinical application
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(1) Evidence of rheumatism
◑ This taste of acid into the liver meridian, tendons and blood, so it has the effect of relieving tendons and activating the body, removing paralysis and relieving pain, and is a standing medicine for the treatment of rheumatic paralysis. Especially for wet paralysis, tendon and pulse spasm are more suitable.
◑ Often used with frankincense, myrrh, raw land equivalent, strong in curing tendons, can not be turned sideways, such as papaya fried "Puji Benfang".
◑ Match with Qiang, solitary, aconite, treat foot and knee pain, and cannot travel far for a long time, such as "Messenger Applicable Party" papaya dan.
◑ Beriberi swollen foot pain, cold and wet, with evodia, Su leaf, betel nut, etc., that is, the "Criterion of Treatment" chicken song scattered.
(2) Spit and turn tendons
◑ This product uses warm fragrance as a use, dissolves dampness as work, enters the spleen meridian, dissolves the wetness of scorching and awakens the spleen and neutral, the spleen is lucky, then diarrhea can be stopped, stomach and drop will be vomiting self-elimination, but also can calm the liver and relax the tendons and slow down the spasm.
◑ Those who spit diarrhea and turn tendons are hot, can be used with silkworm sand, coix kernel, huanglian, evodia, such as "Cholera Theory" silkworm soup.
◑ Wet turbidity in the scorched abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, cold, often with evodia, fennel, perilla, etc., such as papaya soup.
◑ In addition, this product also has the effect of eliminating food (acid and warm, self-leveling liver and stomach, helping stomach mobilization). And can produce jin to quench thirst, with plum, dendrobium and other evidence of insufficient stomach and dry tongue and thirst.
The story of papaya
Xu Shuwei, a famous doctor of the Song Dynasty, recorded an interesting story in "The Affair": Anhui Guangde Gu Anzhong went out, accidentally his legs and feet were swollen and painful, and he couldn't walk, so he had to take a boat home. On the boat, he put his feet on a bag of goods, and when he got off the boat, he suddenly found that his legs and feet were swollen and painful, and he was very surprised, so he asked the ship's family what was in the bag? The boat owner replied that it was papaya. After Gu Anzhong returned home, he bought some sliced papaya, put them in a bag, and put his feet on them every day, and soon his leg and foot disease was cured. This record shows that papaya does have a miraculous effect on treating rheumatic pain.
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Of course, the above is a medicinal papaya, also known as iron-footed pear, which is a unique wild fruit in the mainland, because it is produced in Xuancheng, Anhui (ancient Xuanzhou), so it is called "Xuanpapaya". And the usual consumption of papaya, that is, the papaya in the fruit store, because of its production in tropical America, is an imported product, the mainland since ancient times used to call foreign countries fandi, fanbang, so the name is "papaya", domestic mainly produced in Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan and other places. The original plant species of papaya and papaya are completely different, so their sexual taste and efficacy are also different, and should be distinguished.