Daughter fruit, also known as Golden Lamp, is a perennial herb of Solanaceae, and also known as Red Daughter Fruit and Golden Lamp. It is a medicinal fruit with the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving cough and diuresis. It was originally wild in mountainous and semi-mountainous areas all over the country, especially in the northeast. Girl fruit

Golden lanterns (British) French ground cherry calyx or mustard alias hanging golden lanterns, lantern fruits and red lanterns. The source is persistent calyx of Physalis alkekengi or persistent calyx and fruit. Franchetii (mast. ) Mu Ye of Solanaceae.

plant morphology

Annual herb, the whole plant is densely pubescent, 25 ~ 60 cm high. Stems are much branched. Leaves alternate, ovate to ovoid-shaped, 4 ~ 8 cm long. 2 ~ 6 cm wide, with uneven edges and different sizes. Flowers solitary in leaf axils; Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed; Corolla bell-shaped, pale yellow, 6 ~ 10 mm in diameter, 5-lobed, with purple markings at the base of lobes; Stamens 5, anthers yellow; Ovary 2-loculed. Berry is spherical and green, with a diameter of about 65438±0.2cm, surrounded by enlarged green persistent calyx; Persistent calyx ovoid or broadly ovoid. Distributed in most parts of the country. Fruits mature in autumn, persistent calyx red or orange red, and harvested when dry. The persistent calyx is slightly lantern-shaped, flat, 3 ~ 2.5 ~ 4 cm long and 2.5 ~ 4 cm wide. The surface is orange-red or orange-yellow, with five obvious longitudinal edges and reticular veinlets between the edges. The top is conical, the base is slightly flat, and there is a fruit stalk in the central depression. Light, flexible, hollow, or with brownish red or orange red fruit inside. The fruit is spherical, mostly squashed, with a diameter of 1 ~ 5 cm, and the pericarp is shriveled, containing many seeds. The persistent calyx tastes bitter, and the fruit tastes sweet and slightly sour.

chemical composition

Berries contain acid alcohols a and b; The seeds contain primrose alcohol, blunt leaf alcohol, luteolin, luteolin and so on. Cold in nature and bitter in taste.

Functional indication

Clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving sore throat and resolving phlegm, and inducing diuresis. Used for sore throat, hoarseness, phlegm-heat cough, and dysuria.

Girl is a perennial herb of Solanaceae in Northeast China, whose scientific name is Physalis alkekengi.

The ripe fruit is a button-sized spherical yellow berry with thin and tough skin and sweet flesh, which contains many tiny seeds, but it does not hinder eating. Chushuang, a wild species in the mountains, has a red skin when it matures. Interestingly, the fruit of "Girl" is wrapped in a fibrous bag, which is called saccate calyx in botany. Hanging on plants, it looks like a string of small red lanterns from a distance, swaying and shining against the morning frost or the first snow, which is very beautiful.

Drug Name: Physalis alkekengi (good acid and good acid)

Nature and taste: sour and bitter, cold in nature, with the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving sore throat and intestines, and treating colds.

Alias: Jinlong, Hemp Grass, Bougainvillea bougainvillea, Sophora alopecuroides W-Dan, Runner-up Grass, Mesona chinensis, Tianpao Grass, Luowanzhu, Hanging Golden Lantern. Hakkas call it Lala Zi and Lantern.

Origin: Physalis alkekengi is native to hillsides, fields, rivers, ditches, roadsides and around houses, as well as wet places in wasteland.