瓜蔞 - Traditional Chinese Medicine Healing Herbs(TCMHH)

Heat-Phlegm-Clearing and Resolving Herbs

Gua Lou

Snakegourd Fruit 瓜蒌 Fructus Trichosanthis

NamingGua Lou (Fructus Trichosanthis)——Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Herbal)The Processing of Gua LouOriginThe dry ripe fruit of perennial herbaceous vine plant Trichosanthes kirilowii Maxim. or T. rosthornii Harms of family Cucur-bitaceae.LocationHebei, Henan and Anhui provinces in China.Harv

Heat-Phlegm-Clearing and Resolving Herbs

瓜蒌

Gua Lou Snakegourd Fruit Fructus Trichosanthis

NamingGua Lou (Fructus Trichosanthis)——Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Herbal)The Processing of 瓜蒌OriginThe dry ripe fruit of perennial herbaceous vine plant Trichosanthes kirilowii Maxim. or T. rosthornii Harms of family Cucur-bitaceae.LocationHebei, Henan and Anhui provinces in China.HarvestCo

Heat-Phlegm-Clearing and Resolving Herbs

Fructus Trichosanthis

Gua Lou Snakegourd Fruit 瓜蒌

NamingGua Lou (Fructus Trichosanthis)——Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Herbal)The Processing of Fructus TrichosanthisOriginThe dry ripe fruit of perennial herbaceous vine plant Trichosanthes kirilowii Maxim. or T. rosthornii Harms of family Cucur-bitaceae.LocationHebei, Henan and Anhui provinces