[Nature and flavor] Sweet, slightly bitter, slightly cold. Enters the lung and stomach meridians.
 [Effects] Clears away heat, promotes the production of body fluid, quenches thirst, reduces internal heat, moisturizes dryness, reduces swelling, and discharges pus.
 [Indications] It is used for fever, thirst, lung heat and dry cough, internal heat and thirst, jaundice, dry cough with blood, carbuncle, hemorrhoids, fistula, sores and swelling.
 【Usage and Dosage】 For internal use: decoct in water, 9-15g; or make into pills or powder. For external use: grind into powder and sprinkle; or mix and apply.
 [Contraindications] It should not be used together with Aconitum-type medicinal materials.
 [Modern Research] It is often used to treat diabetes and is used in combination with yin-nourishing drugs to achieve the effect of treating both the symptoms and the root cause.
 【Medical records】
 "Ben Jing": "It is used to treat thirst, fever, irritability, high fever, tonify deficiency and calm the middle, and heal injuries."
 "Bie Lu": "It can eliminate chronic heat in the stomach and intestines, treat jaundice, yellow face, dry lips, dry mouth, and shortness of breath. It can also regulate menstruation and stop urination."
 "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "It clears the small intestine, discharges pus, eliminates swelling and poison, regenerates flesh, and eliminates blood stasis. It treats fever, mastitis, back pain, hemorrhoids, fistulas, sores and furuncles."
 "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "It can treat carbuncle, swelling and poison, and stop coughing with blood."
 "Bencao Mengquan": "Treats hemiplegic hernia."
 "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Cools the heart and lungs, relieves heat and thirst. It reduces the hot phlegm on the diaphragm and eliminates breast abscess and swelling."
 "Yi Lin Zuan Yao": "It nourishes the lungs, gathers qi, reduces fire, calms the mind, relieves liver depression, relieves liver urgency, clears bladder heat, stops heat stranguria and short urination, and eliminates Yangming dampness and heat."
 【Predecessors release medicine】
 Cheng Wuji: The root of Trichosanthes kirilowii moistens the dryness. Adding it can make the body fluids flow, which is suitable for thirst. When the body fluids are insufficient, thirst will occur, and bitterness can strengthen it. The bitterness of the root of Trichosanthes kirilowii can produce body fluids.
 "Compendium of Materia Medica": The root of Trichosanthes kirilowii tastes sweet, slightly bitter and sour. Sourness can produce body fluid, so it can quench thirst and moisten dryness. It is slightly bitter and can reduce internal heat, while sweetness does not hurt the stomach. Ancient people only said that it is bitter and cold, but they did not observe it deeply.
 "Compendium of Materia Medica" states: Trichosanthes root can relieve the stagnation of heat in the five internal organs, such as dry tongue and dry mouth caused by excessive heart fire, swollen throat and sore throat caused by excessive lung fire, swollen mouth, tongue and teeth caused by excessive spleen fire, and restless cough caused by excessive phlegm fire. If the liver fire causes swelling and flow of the ribs, the kidney fire causes bone steaming and fever, or the carbuncle has ulcerated but not ulcerated, but the heat toxicity does not dissipate, or the five jaundices cause yellow body and eyes, and the urine is stifling and astringent, all of which are caused by stagnation of fire and heat. Only this medicine can relieve the stagnation, reduce phlegm and fire, and can cure it. In addition, it is sweet and cold in nature, and is good at curing thirst. It can cure deficiency thirst from tonic medicine, cure thirst from fire from cooling medicine, cure stagnation thirst from qi medicine, and cure thirst from blood medicine. It is an essential medicine for curing thirst.
 "Ben Jing Feng Yuan" says: Trichosanthes root can reduce the heat and phlegm on the diaphragm, moisten the heart and relieve thirst, eliminate seasonal diseases and fever, eliminate alcohol and dampness, treat carbuncle, detoxify and discharge pus. "Ben Jing" is known as "tonifying deficiency, calming the middle and restoring the broken injury" because it has the function of clearing the stomach and removing heat. When the fire is gone, the middle qi is at peace, and when the body fluid is restored, the blood and qi are harmonious and the broken injury is restored. It is cold in nature and can be used for vomiting due to stomach deficiency, yin deficiency and cough due to fatigue, which will damage the stomach qi. After a long time, diarrhea, wheezing and coughing will occur, and the root of the disease will become more solid.
 "Compared with Trichosanthes kirilowii, Trichosanthes kirilowii is slightly milder in nature, not as urgent as Trichosanthes kirilowii, but has the effect of pushing down walls and knocking down walls. As for the "Classic", it says that it can calm the middle and continue to be exhausted, which seems to be not the correct statement, but it means that it can eliminate heat and calm oneself.
 "Continuation of Yao Zheng" says: There are two symptoms of thirst. The one caused by excessive thirst is Gypsum, while the one caused by thirst is Trichosanthes root.
 "Medical Records of Combining Chinese and Western Medicine": Radix Trichosanthis, because it can produce fluid and quench thirst, it can moisten the lungs, transform dry phlegm in the lungs, calm the lungs and stop coughs, treat lung disease and tuberculosis, and is also good at unblocking the meridians, and relieving all heat and toxins in sores. For the initial stage of carbuncle, it can be eliminated by using it together with Fructus Forsythiae and Scabra Paniculata; for sores that have already ulcerated, it can be used together with Radix Astragali and Licorice (all must be used raw), which can further promote the growth of flesh and discharge pus. Even if the ulcer is very deep and has spread to other parts of the body, and it is impossible to apply medicine, it can also grow flesh from the inside and slowly discharge the pus.