Functions and indications of Huaishuhua

Sophora japonica flowers are quite ornamental, but few people know that they also have certain medicinal value. They contain a wide variety of vitamins and minerals. If these nutrients are absorbed by the body, they will make the body healthier and the body's resistance will become higher. After a period of processing, they can also be made into medicine for consumption.

Sophora japonica flower is also known as Sophora japonica core. It has a fragrant and sweet taste and is rich in vitamins and various minerals. It also has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and moistening lungs, lowering blood pressure and preventing stroke. As a daily health care product, the whole body of the Sophora japonica tree is a treasure. The Sophora japonica flowers and Sophora japonica seeds are both medicinal and edible health products, and even the Sophora japonica horns can be used as medicine. Sophora japonica is divided into Sophora japonica and Sophora japonica. Sophora japonica is used as medicine in traditional Chinese medicine.

Nature and flavor

Bitter, slightly cold. It enters the liver and large intestine meridians.

Function and indications

Cools blood and stops bleeding, clears the liver and reduces fire. Raw Sophora japonica flowers are used to clear heat and lower blood pressure, while fried ones are better at stopping bleeding.

Efficacy Application

It is used for red eyes due to liver heat, headache and dizziness, blood in the stool, bloody hemorrhoids, bloody dysentery, metrorrhagia, hematemesis, and epistaxis.

Active ingredients

Modern medical research has found that Sophora japonica flowers contain rutin (i.e. rutin), quercetin, tannins, Sophora japonica diol, vitamin A and other substances. Rutin can improve the function of capillaries, maintain normal resistance of capillaries, and prevent bleeding caused by excessive fragility and high permeability of capillaries. It can prevent bleeding for people with high blood pressure and diabetes.

The effect of Sophora japonica

1. Sophora japonica flowers have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, anti-edema, anti-ulcer, blood pressure lowering, and arteriosclerosis prevention effects, and contain 17 essential amino acids for the human body.

2. Anti-cancer and anti-aging: Sophora japonica beans are the flower buds of Sophora japonica, which are rich in selenium. They can remove free radicals in the body, anti-oxidation and prevent tumors. The antioxidant effect of selenium in Sophora japonica seeds is 300 to 500 times that of vitamin C and vitamin E. It can resist aging and prevent and treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and tumors.

3. Treatment of gray hair: "Sophora japonica flower tea for black hair" 5 grams of raw Sophora japonica flower rice, 5 grams of lily slices, appropriate amount of scented tea, use 200 ml of boiling water to make tea, add Sophora japonica flower honey when drinking.

4. Treatment of hemorrhoids: Take 15 grams of Sophora japonica flowers and 1500 ml of water, boil them, remove the Sophora japonica flowers and sit in a bath for 20 minutes, 2 to 3 times a day.

How to eat Sophora japonica flowers

Sophora japonica flowers can be used to make soups, mixed vegetables, stewed rice, and can also be used to make Sophora japonica flower cakes and dumplings.

Steamed Sophora japonica flower recipe

Steamed Sophora japonica flowers (also known as Sophora japonica flower wheat rice): The method is very simple. Add the washed Sophora japonica flowers to flour and mix well. Then add salt, MSG and other seasonings. Mix well and put it in a steamer and steam it until cooked.

Add to porridge or soup

Sophora japonica flowers can also be added when making porridge or soup.

Steamed Sophora japonica cake

[Ingredients] Sophora japonica flowers, 2 eggs, 1 gram of baking powder, 100 grams of flour.

[Seasoning] Green and red pepper diced, chopped green onion and ginger, light soy sauce, rice vinegar, salt, and MSG.

[Preparation] 1. Soak Sophora japonica flowers in water for 3 minutes. 2. Beat 2 eggs, add 1 gram of baking powder and 100 grams of flour and mix well into the batter. 3. Add Sophora japonica flowers to the batter, stir until evenly distributed, and steam for 7 minutes. 4. Make the sauce: prepare green and red pepper pieces, chopped green onion and ginger, and pour in the oil three times when the temperature reaches 50%, 70%, and 100%. Add light soy sauce, rice vinegar, salt, and MSG and mix well.

Sophora japonica tea-1

Method: Sophora japonica flower buds can be directly soaked in water and drunk as tea.

Sophora japonica tea-2

[Preparation] Take 10 grams of dried Sophora japonica flowers and 10 grams of dried Plantain, brew with boiling water and drink as tea.

【Effects】Assists in lowering blood pressure. (But it cannot replace the effect of antihypertensive drugs)