豇豆（cowpea）.docVIP

豇豆（cowpea） cowpea National compilation of Chinese herbal medicine: cowpea [name] Ji N and D u have. [alias] ginger beans, long beans [source] cowpea cowpea Vigna sinensis (L.) Sav., with seeds, leaves, peel and root as medicine. [habitat distribution] throughout the country. [sexual taste] Gan, ping. [function indications] Spleen dampness, detoxification, hemostasis. Hematuria: seed grinds at the end, 1 dollars per serving, water or wine delivered. Urinary obstruction: leaves 4, two, water fried clothes. Infantile malnutrition: 1 two at the end of the research, steamed egg. Furuncle: root amount, or at the end of the research and application. Snake bite: raw cowpea appropriate amount of crushed wounds. Night sweats: cowpea beans for 2 two two, sugar 1, shuijianbi. [excerpt] National compilation of Chinese herbal medicine . * Dictionary: cowpea [source] for herbal medicine [name] Ji N and D u have. [alias] horn, beans (medical Lin Tsay), carob, rice, kidney beans, long beans, beans (crony flora, the main China legume), bean pulp (Guizhou folk medicine). [source] is the seed of leguminous plant cowpea. Fruit harvest after ripening in autumn. [form] annual twining herbs. Stems glabrous or nearly glabrous. Stipules prismatic ends attenuate acute, base of the stem; 3 leaves alternate, terminal leaflet Ling ovate, lateral lobes obliquely ovate. Inflorescences than leaf short, with 2 to 3 flowers; bracteoles spatulate, caducous; calyx campanulate, glabrous, shrunken, calyx teeth 5, lanceolate; corolla butterfly, purplish or yellowish white, upper petal, petal and ears, keel without ear; stamens 10,2; pistil 1, ovary sessile the top is bearded, inflorescence. Pods 20~30 cm long, pendulous, seed kidney shaped or globose. Florescence 6~7 months. Fruit August. [habitat distribution] cultivation in most parts of the country. [chemical composition] seeds contain large amounts of starch, fat, oil, protein, niacin, vitamin B1, and B2. Fresh cowpea contains 22 mg of ascorbic acid.