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Common Floweringquine Fruit

Latin Pharmaceutical Name

Chaenomelis Fructus

Chinese Name

木瓜

Category

Fruits and seeds

Common Floweringquine FruitMore Info

Production Regions

Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Anhui, Sichuan, Hubei, Zhejiang.

Macroscopic Features

Long round shape, often longitudinally cut into 2 halves. Externally purplish-red or reddish-brown, with irregular deep wrinkles. Edges are curled inward on the cut surface, flesh reddish-brown, center portion indented, brownish-yellow. Seeds are flat with a longitudinal triangular shape. Pieces are strips.

Quality Requirements

Superior medicinal material has wrinkled outer skin, thick flesh, firm texture, purplish-red throughout, sour taste.

Properties

Sour, warm

Functions

Calms liver, soothes the sinews, harmonizes stomach, transforms dampness. Apply to damp arthralgia and contractions, heavy feeling and pain in the waist and knee joints, vomiting and diarrhea, muscle spasms, beriberi and edema.

Origin

The dried mature fruit of Chaenomeles speciosa (Sweet) Nakai(Rosaceae). Also called ‘zhou pi mu gua(wrinkled skin mu gua)’ or ‘xuan mu gua’.

Common Floweringquine FruitHerbs in the formula

Spleen-Strengthening Powder

Action：Warms yang and fortifies the spleen, moves qi, and promotes urination.

Indication：Shi Pi San is indicated for a pattern of yin edema caused by spleen-kidney yang deficiency and retention of water-dampness in the interior. The symptoms are swelling of the lower limbs, cold hands and feet, no thirst, fullness and distention of chest and abdomen, loose stool as well. The tongue coating is white and greasy and the pulse is deep, wiry and slow.

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