Gwaru
Trichosanthes Fruit · Trichosanthis Fructus
한글 과루 · Pinyin Gua Lou
瓜蔞
Properties 性味
- Taste & nature
- Sweet · cold
- Channels entered
- Lung, Stomach, Large Intestine
- Actions
- Clears and transforms phlegm-heat, unbinds the chest, moistens the intestines
- Typical dose
- 9–15 g
- Caution
- Classically incompatible with aconite
Appears in 10 formulas 處方
- Minor Sinking into the Chest Decoction小陷胸湯 12 g · Chief 君
- Clear the Qi and Transform Phlegm Pill淸氣化痰丸 6 g · Deputy 臣
- Gypsum and Virgate Wormwood Powder石膏茵蔯散 0 g · Assistant 佐
- Clear the Diaphragm Atractylodes and Cyperus Pill淸膈蒼莎丸 0 g · Envoy 使
- Issue the Voice Powder發聲散 0 g · Chief 君
- Rhaponticum Powder漏蘆散 0 g · Deputy 臣
- Immediate Effect Powder for Blown Breast立效散 0 g · Chief 君
- Divinely Effective Trichosanthes Powder神效瓜蔞散 0 g · Chief 君
- Ten Thousand Gold One Drunkenness Paste萬金一醉膏 0 g · Chief 君
- Draw Up the Bowel Pill釣腸丸 0 g · Chief 君