Description

benincasa peel (dongguapi)
pharmaceutical name: exocarpium benincasae

botanical name: benincasa hispida (thunb.) Cogn.

common name: benincasa peel, chinese wax gourd

source of earliest record: kaibao bencao

part used & method for pharmaceutical preparations: the peel of the gourd is dried in the sun.

properties & taste: sweet and slightly cold

meridians: lung and small intestine

functions: to promote water metabolism and reduce edema
to relieve thirst, especially in the summer
pharm. Action: diuretic
indications & combinations: edema, or lkiguria, and summer stork. Benincasa peel (dongguapi) is used with phaseolus seed (chixiaodou), imperata rhizome (baimaogen) and poria (fuling) in the formula donggua wan.

dosage: 15-30 g

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