Side effects of bitter beans

Sophora alopecuroides is a common medicinal plant in Ningxia. Sophora alopecuroides has high medicinal value. It plays a very important role in our traditional Chinese medicine. So what specific effects does sophora alopecuroides have on our body? What diseases can sophora alopecuroides cure? Since sophora alopecuroides is a bitter medicine, it has the effect of clearing away heat and drying dampness. Sophora alopecuroides has analgesic and insecticidal effects.

When we have diarrhea caused by damp heat, we can use bitter beans as a traditional Chinese medicine for treatment. Bitter beans also have a great therapeutic effect on stomach problems. You can eat bitter beans when you have stomach pain. Women can also turn to bitter beans when they have symptoms of excessive leucorrhea. Therefore, bitter beans are very effective.

shrub. The branches are mostly broom-shaped and densely covered with gray silky hairs. Leaves are alternate, odd-pinnate compound leaves; leaflets are 15 to 25, gray-green, rectangular, 1.5 to 2.5 cm long, covered with silky hairs on both sides, with smaller leaflets at the top; stipules are small, subulate, and persistent. The raceme is terminal, 12 to 15 cm long; the flowers are densely distributed; the calyx is densely covered with gray silky hairs, with short triangular calyx teeth at the top; the corolla is butterfly-shaped and yellow. The pods are beaded, 3 to 7 cm long, densely covered with fine silky hairs, and the seeds are light yellow and oval.

Sophora alopecuroides is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Leguminosae family, with a height of 20 to 50 cm. The whole plant is covered with grayish-white, silky soft hairs. The rhizome is well developed, with a root width of up to 2 to 3 meters. The vertical roots extend downward for 2.0 to 2.5 meters. The adventitious roots are not stratified and spread evenly and widely. The stem is upright and has many branches on the upper part. The odd-pinnate compound leaves are alternate, the racemes are terminal, the flowers are densely grown, and are yellow or yellowish-white. The pods are bead-shaped, gray-brown or gray-black, and the seeds are oval. They germinate in mid-April every year, bloom from June to mid-July, and the fruits mature from late July to mid-August. The growing period is 125 to 142 days.

Sophora alopecuroides is a medium-sized xerophyte with a small above-ground part, with a crown width of 252-30cm; the underground part is large, forming a huge root network, and the dry weight ratio of the two is 1:2.4-5. Sophora alopecuroides is a light salt-alkali tolerant plant and generally grows on soils with a total salt content of less than 0.2%. Its growth is inhibited when the total salt content rises to 0.3%. No growth is observed when the total salt content reaches 0.4%. However, it sometimes also has a salt-avoiding phenomenon. For example, the total salt content in the 0-18cm layer of grass-saline soil reaches 3.7%. It can directly pass through the upper soil layer with a heavier salt content and absorb moisture from the lower soil layer with a lighter salt content.

【Properties】Bitter and cold. poisonous. It enters the stomach and large intestine meridians.

【Effects】Clears away heat and dampness, relieves pain, and kills insects.

【application】

1.Damp-heat diarrhea. This product is bitter and cold in nature, and can clear away heat and dampness to stop dysentery. It is effective when used alone to treat diarrhea due to damp-heat, tenesmus.

2. Epigastric pain and acid reflux. This product enters the stomach meridian and can clear stomach heat. It can treat stomach heat, stomach pain, and acid regurgitation. Five seeds can be ground into powder and taken orally, or combined with dandelion, ginger, etc. (Xinjiang Chinese Herbal Medicine Handbook)

3. Eczema and stubborn ringworm. This product has the functions of clearing away heat, drying dampness, killing insects and can be used to treat eczema and stubborn ringworm. Its distilled oil can be made into an ointment for external application.

4. Excessive vaginal discharge. This product is used to clear away heat and dampness to stop leukorrhea. It can be effectively taken orally.

5. Boils and ulcers. This product can both clear away heat and fight poison with poison, so it can be used to treat heat-toxic sores, ulcers and other symptoms. You can crush an appropriate amount of this product, boil it into a decoction and wash the affected area.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction of the whole herb, 1.5-3g. Fry the seeds, grind into powder and take 5 seeds each time.

【Precautions】This product is toxic and should not be taken in large amounts.

(3) Pharmacological effects

Sophora flavescens tastes extremely bitter, is cold and poisonous in nature, and has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, analgesic and insecticidal. The roots are used by the people to treat sore throat, cough, dysentery and eczema. There are eight main bioalkalis used in drug development: matrine MT, oxymatrinel OMT, sophocarpine sc, oxysophocarpine OSC, sophoramine SA, sophoridine SRI, lehmannine LEH, and alopefine ALO. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Above, we introduced bitter beans in traditional Chinese medicine. Bitter beans generally grow in Ningxia. We understand the efficacy and value of bitter beans, and also know the pharmacological effects and medicinal properties of bitter beans. Bitter beans have a good effect on excessive vaginal discharge in women, as well as diseases such as stomach heat and epigastric pain. Although bitter beans taste bitter, they actually have no side effects.