Chemical composition Luffa leaves contain saponins. Guangdong Luffa leaves contain hydrocyanic acid.
Pharmacological action The water extract of Luffa leaf or whole plant (decocted with alcohol to remove precipitate) can obviously reduce the contraction of acetylcholine on isolated guinea pig ileum, and has similar effect on histamine, but it is weak. The decoction has a slight exciting effect on ileum and a very significant exciting effect on isolated rabbit uterus. Water extract has no obvious effect on isolated rabbit duodenum. It has no effect on the preparation of diaphragm-phrenic nerve in rats. The decoction has obvious exciting effect on rectus abdominis of toad. The perfusion test of hind limbs in rats had no obvious effect. Intravenous injection of 0. 1 g crude drug /kg in anesthetized dogs has antihypertensive effect. Mice were injected with 20 g fresh crude drug /kg water extract intraperitoneally, which had no obvious effect. The decoction 1 g crude drug/animal intraperitoneal injection has no obvious toxicity.
Indications: clearing away heat and toxic materials. Treat carbuncle, furuncle, tinea, snake bite, soup fire injury.
① "Outline": "tinea and sore, mix with it frequently, treat carbuncle swelling and egg collapse."
(2) "Ben Feng Jingyuan": "Pour juice to take raw clothes, relieve snake venom, hurt me, and it is easy to do it."
③ Diet spectrum of fun life: "Eliminating summer heat and detoxifying." For abdominal pain caused by scurvy, wring juice to take. "
④ Lingnan Collection of Drugs: "Decoct and take, cure goose throat."
⑤ Flora of Guangzhou: "Mashing, curing carbuncle, Xia Yue's dermatosis in children, has the effect of detumescence and anti-inflammation."
Oral administration and dosage: decoction, 1 ~ 3 Liang; Or mash and grind the juice. External use: decocting, washing, pounding and grinding.
Recipe 1 Treatment of fish umbilical furuncle: Luffa leaves, scallion and leek are equally divided. Throw it into a stone bowl and mash it. Stick wine and kimono under your arm with dregs. If the left hand is sick, stick it to the left armpit, the right hand to the right armpit, the left foot to the left hip and the right foot to the right hip. If you are close to your umbilical cord in the center and tie it with silk, you can be safe. (The Good Prescription of Doctors in the World)
② Treatment of tinea: collect dew and towel gourd leaves in the morning to wipe the affected area. ("learning from the classics")
(3) Treatment of soup fire burn: towel gourd leaves (baked), add money at the end of aging, and rub them with honey; The living have been smashed. ("Famous Maritime Party",)
④ Treatment of yin falling: Luffa leaf (burned) San Qian, egg shell (burned) two money. Warm wine and slow clothes. ("Yu Jushi chooses a strange recipe")
⑤ Treatment of wind-heat itching in renal capsule: four or two leaves of Luffa, one or two herbs of Xanthium sibiricum and two or two wild chrysanthemums. Take it with water or wash it for external use. (Chongqing herbal medicine)
⑥ Treatment of sweat spots: Luffa leaves, borax and borneol. Smash and apply externally. (Nanning medical yearbook)
⑦ Treating women's bloody collapse: stir-fry loofah leaves and grind them into black powder. Every two to five dollars, with wine. ("Minnan Folk Herbs")
Clinical application of treating neurodermatitis;
Wash and rub the fresh towel gourd leaves, and rub them locally until they are red, and see occult blood. 1 every 7 days 1 time, twice for 1 course of treatment. General 1 ~ 2 courses of treatment can obtain short-term curative effect.