五叶藤，中药名。为旋花科番薯属植物五爪金龙Ipomoeacairica（L.）Sweet的茎叶或根。植物五爪金龙，分布于我国台湾、福建、广东及其沿海岛屿、广西、云南等地。具有清热解毒，利水通淋之功效。主治肺热咳嗽，小便不利，淋病，水肿，痈肿疔毒。
Wu-ye-teng, name of Chinese Medicinal Material. It refers to the stems, leaves, or roots of Ipomoea cairica (L.) Sweet, a plant belonging to the Convolvulaceae family. The plant is distributed in Taiwan, Fujian, Guangdong and its coastal islands, Guangxi, Yunnan and other regions of China. It has the functions of clearing heat, detoxifying, promoting diuresis, and relieving stranguria. It is mainly used for treating lung heat cough, urinary difficulties, stranguria, edema, and carbuncle.

功效作用 功能
Efficacy and Functions

清热解毒，利水通淋。主治
Clearing heat, detoxifying, promoting diuresis, and treating stranguria.

肺热咳嗽，小便不利，淋病，水肿，痈肿疔毒。用法用量
Lung heat cough, difficult urination, gonorrhea, edema, and abscesses. Dosage and administration.

内服：煎汤，4.5～10g，鲜者15～30g。外用：适量，捣敷。注意事项
Internal use: Decoction, 4.5-10g, fresh 15-30g. External use: appropriate amount, crushed for application. Precautions.

虚寒者禁用。药理作用
Prohibited for those with deficiency-cold. Pharmacological effects.

1、抗病毒作用。2、泻下作用。相关论述

1. Antiviral effect.2. Laxative effect.Related discussions.

《泉州木草》：“甘、寒，无毒。”“入肝、肺、肾、膀胱四经。”“清热解毒，通淋利小便。治淋症，水肿，外敷痈疽肿毒。”“治诸淋：五爪金龙茎叶（鲜）一两。煎汤去渣，加冰糖炖服。”加工炮制 采收加工
"Quanzhou Mucgrass": "Sweet, cold, non-toxic." "Enters the liver, lungs, kidneys, and bladder meridians." "Clears heat, detoxifies, promotes urination. Treats urinary tract infections, edema, and external application for abscesses and swelling." "Treatment for various urinary disorders: Fresh leaves of Five-Clawed Golden Dragon Stem (1 liang). Decoct, remove residue, add rock sugar, stew and take orally." Processing and preparation: Harvesting and processing.

全年或秋季采收，洗净，切段或片，鲜用或晒干。植物学信息 植物种属
Harvest in the whole year or in autumn, wash, cut into sections or slices, and use fresh or sun-dried. Botanical information about the plant species.

旋花科番薯属植物五爪金龙。形态特征
The plant "Wuzhao Jinlong" belongs to the Convolvulaceae family and the Ipomoea genus. It has distinctive morphological characteristics.

多年生缠绕草本，全体无毛，老时根上具块根。茎细长，有细棱，有时有小疣状突起。叶掌状5深裂或全裂，裂片卵状披针形、卵形或椭圆形，中裂片较大，长4～5厘米，宽2～2.5厘米，两侧裂片稍小，顶端渐尖或稍钝，具小短尖头，基部楔形渐狭，全缘或不规则微波状，基部1对裂片通常再2裂；叶柄长2～8厘米，基部具小的掌状5裂的假托叶（腋生短枝的叶片）。聚伞花序腋生，花序梗长2～8厘米，具1～3花，或偶有3朵以上；苞片及小苞片均小，鳞片状，早落；花梗长0.5～2厘米，有时具小疣状突起；萼片稍不等长，外方2片较短，卵形，长5～6毫米，外面有时有小疣状突起，内萼片稍宽，长7～9毫米，萼片边缘干膜质，顶端钝圆或具不明显的小短尖头；花冠紫红色、紫色或淡红色、偶有白色，漏斗状，长5～7厘米；雄蕊不等长，花丝基部稍扩大下延贴生于花冠管基部以上，被毛；子房无毛，花柱纤细，长于雄蕊，柱头2球形。蒴果近球形，高约1厘米，2室，4瓣裂。种子黑色，长约5毫米，边缘被褐色柔毛。生长环境
Perennial twining herb, glabrous throughout, with tuberous roots at the base when old. Stems slender, with fine ridges, sometimes with small wart-like projections. Leaves palmately 5-lobed or entire, lobes ovate-lanceolate, ovate, or elliptic, with the central lobe larger, 4-5 cm long, 2-2.5 cm wide, slightly pointed or obtuse at the apex, with small short tips, cuneate at the base, entire or irregularly undulate, with usually 2 additional lobes at the base; petioles 2-8 cm long, with small palmately 5-lobed pseudo-stipules at the base (leaves of axillary short branches). Umbel inflorescences axillary, peduncles 2-8 cm long, with 1-3 flowers, occasionally more; bracts and bracteoles small, scale-like, early deciduous; pedicels 0.5-2 cm long, sometimes with small wart-like projections; sepals slightly unequal in length, outer 2 shorter, ovate, 5-6 mm long, sometimes with small wart-like projections on the outside, inner sepals slightly wider, 7-9 mm long, with membranous margins, obtuse or with inconspicuous short tips at the apex; corolla purple-red, purple, light pink, occasionally white, funnel-shaped, 5-7 cm long; stamens unequal in length, filaments slightly expanded at the base and downward adnate to the base of the corolla tube, hairy; ovary glabrous, style slender, longer than stamens, stigma with 2 spherical lobes. Capsule nearly globose, about 1 cm high, 2-loculed, 4-valved. Seeds black, about 5 mm long, with brownish soft hairs along the edges. Habitat:

生于海拔90～610米的平地或山地路边灌丛，生长于向阳处。
It grows in shrubs along flat or mountainous roadsides at altitudes of 90 to 610 meters, thriving in sunny locations.