What are the functions and effects of hanging golden lanterns?

The first thing that comes to mind when seeing this question is what is the hanging golden lantern? The hanging golden lantern is also known as the nightshade. Nightshade is mostly planted in the woods and on the roadsides. It can add to the wildness of the mountains and forests. It can also be potted for viewing, and the fruit branches can be made into dried flowers. The fruit can be eaten fresh or made into salads or jams. The whole plant can be used as medicine, which has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. The hanging golden lantern is a unique perennial herbaceous wild fruit in my country's history that can be used as both medicine and food.

Clears away heat, detoxifies and acts as a diuretic. It is used to treat bone steaming, fatigue fever, cough, sore throat, jaundice, edema, and blisters.

1《本经》: "(main) difficult childbirth."

2 "Bielu": "It can treat irritability and fever, calm the mind and replenish qi, and promote urination."

3 Tao Hongjing: "It can eliminate heat in children and also treat jaundice."

4 "Jiayou Materia Medica": "It is used to treat bone steaming."

5. "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "It can promote urination, treat stranguria and pain in the penis. It can attack sores and treat abdominal abscesses, break blood and qi."

6 "Nanjing Folk Herbs": "Treats sore throat and swelling."

7. "Handbook of Chinese Herbal Medicines": "It can clear lung and stomach heat, dissipate depression, and relieve sore throat. It can treat swollen throat, locked throat wind, all kinds of sores and swellings, and hemorrhage in women."

8 Clearing away heat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough: "Bencao Yanyi Buyi" says: "It treats cough caused by heat and phlegm." This syndrome is mostly caused by the invasion of wind-heat evil into the human body, which affects the lung defense, causing the lung qi to be blocked and unable to circulate, and the lungs to lose their ability to clear and purify. Therefore, symptoms include a severe cough, thick and yellow phlegm, thirst and sore throat. Or accompanied by headache, fever, aversion to wind, sweating, thin yellow tongue coating, and floating and rapid pulse. The treatment is to dispel wind and heat, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. Therefore, this product can be used. The New Compendium of Materia Medica states: "It is used to treat cough due to upper breath, wind-heat, and improve eyesight." The Compendium of Materia Medica states: "Physalis can eliminate dampness and heat, which can clear the lungs and relieve cough. It can eliminate dampness and resolve phlegm, and treat acne."

9. Clearing away heat and detoxifying: The bitterness of this product can cause diarrhea, and its coldness can clear away heat, so it has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. It can be used to treat sore throat, jaundice, dysentery, erysipelas, sores, diphtheria and other diseases.

10 Edema: Sour, bitter and cold in nature. Bitterness can reduce dampness and coldness can clear away heat, so it has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying and promoting diuresis. It can treat hot cough, sore throat, jaundice, dysentery, edema, erysipelas and other diseases.

Pharmacological Action

1. Antibacterial: The antibacterial active ingredients of Physalis are preliminarily believed to be in the oily liquid, which has an inhibitory effect on Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus in a test tube. The needle-shaped crystal mother liquid extracted from Physalis has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus.

2 Stimulate the uterus: Hystonin (potassium nitrate), which was proposed in the early years to have an stimulating effect on the isolated rabbit uterus, has been clinically reported to have an induced labor effect.

3 Anti-tumor effect: The water extract of Physalis fruit has inhibitory activity on Ehrlich ascites carcinoma in mice, and its main active ingredient is citric acid.

4 Others: When injected into animals, Physalis root extract can cause brain depression. If used in large doses, it can cause respiratory paralysis and death.

The above content is some of the functions and effects of the hanging golden lantern that the editor has compiled for everyone. Although the hanging golden lantern has high medicinal value, the editor would like to remind everyone here that the hanging golden lantern cannot be used for people with weak diarrhea. At the same time, the hanging golden lantern also has an abortion effect, so pregnant women should not use it. If you are sick, don't look for any folk remedies, be sure to go to the hospital for examination and treatment. I wish you all good health.