Pharmaceutical name:

英文藥名﹕

Latin name:

學名﹕

Momordica charantia L.

 應用部份﹕

fruit, leaves and roots

果﹐葉﹐ 根部。

Pron. in Japanese:

日語發音﹕

goya, nigari

Pron. in Korean:

韓語發音﹕

Ssunoi

Pron. in Cantonese:

粵音﹕

fu gua

Other Chinese Names:

別名﹕

liang gua 涼瓜、ban sheng gua 半生瓜.

Common Name:

其他外文名﹕

• bitter gourd, bitter melon (English)

• karela (Hindi),

• korola, uchhe (Bengali)

• ampalaya (Tagalog)  ,

• amargoso (Aklanon) ,

• paria, palia (in some parts of the Philipines),

• pare, pare pahit, paria, peria (Indonesian)

• peria katak (Malay)

• muop dang, khó quã (Vietnamese)

• tsuru reishi (Japanese)

• melao de sao caetano (some part of South America)

• balsamina (Spanish)

• balsamini lunghi (Italian)

• springkomkommer (Dutch)

• assorossie, momordique, margose, melon amer, balsamine  (French)

• wunder-balsamapfel (German)

Distribution:

產地﹕

All over the world.

Properties

 characteristics)﹕

性味﹕

bitter, cold.

苦﹐寒

Channels  meridians) entered:

歸經﹕

藥理﹕

lowers blood lipids

lowers blood sugar:  the saponin of bitter melon possesses the effect of insulin and can stimulate insulin, and its lowering blood sugar effect is obvious.

antivirus

anti-cancer

anti-malaria.

降血脂﹐ 降血糖,  抗病毒﹐防癌症, 抗瘧 。

苦瓜中所含的苦瓜皂甙，有类似胰岛素的作用，还可刺激胰岛素释放，有非常明显的降血糖作用。

清脂素不进入人体血液，只作用于人体吸收脂肪的小肠。通过改变肠细胞网孔，阻止脂肪、多糖等高热量大分子物质的吸收，从而加速体内小分子营养的吸收，又不参与人体代谢，所以无任何毒副作用。

Actions & Indications:

主治﹕

1. Being used in obesity, diabetes,  constipation, diarrhea due to intestine inflammation, HIV.

2. Root being used in asthma. Leaves being used in round worms, and tape worms.

3. The small fruits which can not ripen on the vines are being used in malaria.

4. Seeds can be used in  psoriasis, eczema, arthritis, asthma and other auto-immune system dysfunction diseases.

除邪熱、解疲勞、清心明目、益氣壯陽 。

1. 肥胖﹔ 免疫系統功能紊亂, 痔瘡﹐ 銀痟病﹐ 便秘﹐ 艾滋病﹐ 。

2. 根用于哮喘。

3. 葉用于蛔虫﹐ 絛蟲 。

4. 不能成熟之小苦瓜用于瘧疾,

Chemical ingredients:

化學成份﹕

high in potassium

high in vitamin A and C

α- and b- momorcharin (anti HIV)

quinine, especially in immature fruit (anti-malaria)

Also see here.

Dosage:

用量﹕

The fruit and leaves are being used as vegetable.

For malaria control: use young immature fruit for soup with rice.

For blood sugar control, make one bitter gourds into juice and drink before meals, 3 times per day.

According to some report, for weight control: eat 2 to 3 raw bitter gourds per day.

葉與果(瓜) 當蔬菜用。

不能成熟之果加米用來煮湯用于輔助治療瘧疾。

控制血糖﹕ 苦瓜一條﹐ 榨汁﹐ 飯前服用。每日三次。

有報導關於減肥﹕每天生吃苦瓜兩三條。

Samples of formulae

:處方舉例﹕

Modern Research:

現代研究﹕

Toxicity & Cautions:

毒素與禁忌﹕

Not to use in cases of pregnancies. The juice of the plant appears to have abortive effect.

The plant and fruit are high in potassium. It may not be suitable for shenyangxu (kidney yang deficient) type of body.

It may enhance the effect of blood sugar lowering medicine.

Reports of concentrated extract of an active ingredient, "qing zhi su" has cause death from malnutrition.

懷孕婦人忌用。含有大量之鉀鹽 腎陽虛 患者不適用。

有報導說﹐ 有用清脂素導致死亡事件。清脂素是苦瓜有效成份之一。