Matchmaker (also known as "lantern", "lantern fruit", "hanging golden lantern", "red lantern", "brocade" and "sour paste") can be eaten raw or made into drinks. Persistent calyx can be used as medicine and has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials. It is best for treating cough, sore throat and throat inflammation. Also treat diabetes. Fruit contains more than ten kinds of essential amino acids and minerals.
Modern medicine believes that Red Girl can relieve sore throat and resolve phlegm, and can cure hepatitis, sore throat, cough due to lung heat and so on. It is recorded in Song Interpretation of 400 Kinds of Drugs in Vernacular Chinese that acid pulp block, clearing lung-heat and treating liver, sore throat, and hot cough are safe. According to modern scientific detection, Red Girl is rich in Physalis alkekengi AB, Physalis alkekengi, alkaloids, citric acid, carotene, Physalis alkekengi, sitosterol, chlorophenol, chrysophanol, lanolin -8-3B alcohol and so on. These are rare trace elements in human growth. In the 1970s, the simplified version of Chinese herbal medicine Smilax glabra was recorded as follows: Red girl treated children's pertussis, acute tracheitis, diabetes (insulin injection failed) edema, and root soup was effective in treating bacillary dysentery. Modern folk prescription: Honggunianggen decoction has a special effect on hepatitis B. Taking tea instead of drinking can improve eyesight, clear brain, stabilize blood pressure and reduce blood fat, and there is no dizziness after long-term use.
Nutritional value of Red Girl: The ripe fruit is sweet, which is a kind of nutritious fruit and vegetable. Berries are rich in vitamin C, which has a certain effect on aplastic anemia. The fruit has the effect of clearing away heat and diuresis, and can be used externally to diminish inflammation. The whole herb has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials, especially for tonsillitis, and the calyx is an antiasthmatic drug. Persistent calyx has swollen acid pulp and can be used as medicine, and has the effects of cooling and resolving phlegm, relieving cough and diuresis. Whole grass has purgative effect and can cure gout, but it has the disadvantage of abortion and is not suitable for pregnant women. The whole plant can be used as insecticide and ornamental.
Red girl is full of treasures, which can not only be used as medicine, but also has a well-developed root system, and there are wooden rhizomes underground, which has a certain protective effect on wind and sand fixation and soil erosion. People only regard her as a treasure to make money, because Red Girl is a herb and a medicine, and it can be cured with one medicine. For example, treating diabetes, wind-heat cough, jaundice hepatitis, and treating hepatitis B with root soup are all directed by doctors blindly. But also has no side effect and dependence after long-term administration.
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