苦天茄，中药名。为茄科植物喀西茄SolanumkhasianumC.B.Clarke的果实。分布于云南等地。具有祛风止痛，清热解毒之功效。常用于风湿痹痛，头痛，牙痛，乳痈，痄腮，跌打疼痛。
Ku-tian-jia, name of Chinese Medicinal Material. The fruit of the plant Solanum khasianum C.B.Clarke, a member of the Solanaceae family, distributed in Yunnan and other regions. It is known for its effects of dispelling wind, alleviating pain, clearing heat, and detoxifying. It is commonly used for rheumatic pain, headache, toothache, breast abscess, mumps, and traumatic pain.

功效作用 功能
Efficacy, function.

祛风止痛，清热解毒。主治
Dispelling wind and relieving pain, clearing heat and detoxifying. Used to treat.

风湿痹痛，头痛，牙痛，乳痈，痄腮，跌打疼痛。用法用量
Wind-damp arthralgia, headache, toothache, breast abscess, mumps, and traumatic pain. Dosage and administration.

内服：煎汤，3-6g。外用：适量，捣敷或研末调敷。相关论述
Internal use: Decoction, 3-6g. External use: appropriate amount, apply as a poultice or mix into a paste for application. Relevant discussion.

《昆明民间常用草药》：“消炎解毒，镇静止痛。治风湿跌打疼痛，神经性头痛，胃痛，牙痛，乳腺炎、腮腺炎。”临床应用 相关配伍
"Commonly Used Folk Herbs in Kunming: "Anti-inflammatory and detoxifying, calming and pain-relieving. Used for treating rheumatic pain, bruises, neuralgia, stomach pain, toothache, mastitis, and parotitis. Clinical applications and relevant combinations."

1、治将要出头的疮毒：刺天茄叶、果晒干研末，加重楼粉，蜂蜜调匀外敷。（《昆明民间常用草药》）2、治牙痛：刺天茄鲜果实捣烂，置牙痛处。（《云南中草药》）加工炮制 采收加工

1. Treating impending ulceration: Grind dried leaves and fruits of Solanum trilobatum, mix with Gypsum Fibrosum powder and honey, apply externally. (From "Commonly Used Folk Herbs in Kunming")2. Treating toothache: Mash fresh fruits of Solanum trilobatum, apply to the painful tooth. (From "Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine") Processing and preparation: Harvesting and processing.

秋季采收，鲜用或晒干。植物学信息 植物种属
Harvest in autumn, use fresh or dry in the shade. Botanical information: plant species.

茄科植物喀西茄。形态特征
Solanum melongena, a member of the Solanaceae family. Morphological characteristics.

直立草本至亚灌木，高1-2米，最高达3米，茎、枝、叶及花柄多混生黄白色具节的长硬毛，短硬毛，腺毛及淡黄色基部宽扁的直刺，刺长2-15毫米，宽1-5毫米，基部暗黄色。叶阔卵形，长6-12厘米，宽约与长相等，先端渐尖，基部戟形，5-7深裂，裂片边缘又作不规则的齿裂及浅裂；上面深绿，毛被在叶脉处更密；下面淡绿，除被有与上面相同的毛被外，还被有稀疏分散的星状毛；侧脉与裂片数相等，在上面平，在下面略凸出，其上分散着生基部宽扁的直刺，刺长约5-15毫米；叶柄粗壮，长约为叶片之半。蝎尾状花序腋外生，短而少花，单生或2-4朵，花梗长约1厘米；萼钟状，绿色，直径约1厘米，长约7毫米，5裂，裂片长圆状披针形，长约5毫米，宽约1.5毫米，外面具细小的直刺及纤毛，边缘的纤毛更长而密；花冠筒淡黄色，隐于萼内，长约1.5毫米；冠檐白色，5裂，裂片披针形，长约14毫米，宽约4毫米，具脉纹，开放时先端反折；花丝长约1.5毫米，花药在顶端延长，长约7毫米，顶孔向上；子房球形，被微绒毛，花柱纤细，长约8毫米，光滑，柱头截形。浆果球状，直径约2-2.5厘米，初时绿白色，具绿色花纹，成熟时淡黄色，宿萼上具纤毛及细直刺，后逐渐脱落；种子淡黄色，近倒卵形，扁平，直径约2.5毫米。花期春夏，果熟期冬季。分布区域
An erect herbaceous to sub-shrub, 1-2 meters tall, reaching up to 3 meters in height, with stems, branches, leaves, and flower stalks densely covered with yellow-white stiff hairs, short stiff hairs, glandular hairs, and pale yellow, wide and flat-based straight thorns, thorns 2-15 millimeters long, 1-5 millimeters wide, dark yellow at the base. Leaves broadly ovate, 6-12 centimeters long, width approximately equal to length, gradually pointed at the apex, lanceolate at the base, deeply 5-7 lobed, with irregular toothed and shallowly lobed edges; dark green on the upper surface, denser hair along the veins; light green on the lower surface, with sparse scattered star-shaped hairs in addition to the same hair as on the upper surface, lateral veins equal in number to lobes, flat on the upper surface, slightly convex on the lower surface, with scattered wide and flat-based straight thorns at the base, thorns about 5-15 millimeters long; petioles stout, about half the length of the leaf blade. Scorpion-tail-like racemes axillary, short and few-flowered, solitary or 2-4 flowers, pedicels about 1 centimeter long; calyx campanulate, green, about 1 centimeter in diameter, 7 millimeters long, 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate, about 5 millimeters long, 1.5 millimeters wide, with fine straight thorns and hairs on the outside, longer and denser hairs on the edges; corolla tube pale yellow, hidden within the calyx, about 1.5 millimeters long; corolla lobes white, 5-lobed, lanceolate, about 14 millimeters long, 4 millimeters wide, veined, with the tips reflexed when open; filaments about 1.5 millimeters long, anthers elongated at the apex, about 7 millimeters long, with upward-facing pores; ovary globose, covered with fine hairs, style slender, about 8 millimeters long, smooth, stigma truncate. Berry globose, about 2-2.5 centimeters in diameter, initially greenish-white with green stripes, turning pale yellow when ripe, with fine hairs and slender straight thorns on the persistent calyx, gradually falling off; seeds pale yellow, nearly ovoid, flattened, about 2.5 millimeters in diameter. Flowering period in spring and summer, fruiting in winter. Distribution area.

云南等地。生长环境
Yunnan and other regions. Growing environment.

喜生于山间林下，荒地沟边。
Ginseng thrives in the mountains, forests, and by the edges of barren lands and ditches.