Pueraria root nature and flavor meridians

I believe everyone has eaten Pueraria root in their daily lives. It is mainly used for making soup, and the medicinal value of Pueraria root is relatively high. It can regulate the spleen and stomach and symptoms such as spleen deficiency, and it is very good for reducing fat and lowering blood pressure. Therefore, it is recommended that everyone should be clear about how to eat it. Now let us understand the medicinal value of Pueraria lobata and learn how to cook it.

Drug name: Pueraria root

Other names: Kudzu potato, kudzu strips, powder kudzu, sweet kudzu, kudzu vine, kudzu hemp

Nature and flavor: sweet and slightly spicy, fragrant, cool in nature

Meridians: Enters the spleen and stomach meridians

Effects: relieves inflammation, relieves muscle pain, promotes yang and relieves rash, relieves fever and promotes the production of body fluids

Indications: diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, thirst due to fever, fever due to exogenous infection, severe headache and neck pain, measles with poor outbreak, thirst due to febrile disease

Dosage and administration: 9-15g, decocted in water and taken orally. For diarrhea, use simmered Pueraria root.

Medicinal material source: Pueraria root is the tuberous root of the vine plant Pueraria lobata.

Effects

1. Pueraria root can raise Yang Qi, quench thirst and stop diarrhea: Pueraria root is light, clear and dispersing, and its medicinal properties can raise Yang Qi, encourage the body's positive energy to rise, and distribute body fluids. It can promote the clearing of Yang energy in the spleen and stomach, quench thirst, and stop diarrhea. Therefore, it is often used to treat internal heat and thirst, measles with poor outbreaks, diarrhea, dysentery and other diseases.

2. Pueraria root can remove fat and lower blood pressure: Pueraria root can make blood pressure easier to control, dilate capillaries, reduce blood viscosity, and improve microcirculation. It can soften and protect blood vessels, and lower blood lipids and cholesterol in the human body.

3. Pueraria root combined with ephedra and cassia twig: Pueraria root is good at relieving muscle spasms in the neck and back, and is an important medicine for exterior symptoms with stiffness and pain in the neck and back; ephedra and cassia twig have the effect of dispersing wind and cold. The three are used together to achieve the effects of dispersing cold and relieving exterior symptoms, relieving pain, and are mostly used to treat wind-cold exterior symptoms with aversion to cold, no sweating, and stiffness and pain in the neck and back.

4. Pueraria root can dilate blood vessels: Pueraria root total flavonoids and puerarin can improve myocardial oxygen metabolism and have a beneficial effect on myocardial metabolism. At the same time, they can dilate blood vessels, improve microcirculation, reduce vascular resistance, and increase blood flow. Therefore, it can be used to prevent and treat myocardial ischemia, myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, hypertension, arteriosclerosis and other diseases.

5. Pueraria root can improve intelligence: Studies have shown that Pueraria root has a significant therapeutic effect on learning and memory disorders, and Pueraria root alcohol extract can significantly counteract memory disorders caused by alkaloids. It can be used to treat senile dementia, intellectual disability, poor memory and other diseases.

6. Pueraria root can sober up: Pueraria root can detoxify ethanol and can quickly excrete it after sobering up. It can relieve symptoms such as headache, dizziness, and flushed face after drinking. Relieve the absorption of alcohol in the stomach and protect the gastric mucosa.

7. Pueraria root can nourish the skin: Pueraria root can enhance the skin's resistance to damage.

8. Pueraria root combined with ginseng and Poria: Pueraria root can raise the spleen and stomach to clear Yang and stop diarrhea; ginseng can greatly replenish vital energy; Poria can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. The three medicines are used together

It has the effects of invigorating qi, strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea, and is used to treat diarrhea caused by spleen deficiency.

9. Pueraria root combined with Bupleurum and Gypsum: Pueraria root and Bupleurum both have the effects of clearing away heat and relieving exterior symptoms and reducing fever; Gypsum clears away interior heat. The combination of the three medicines has the effect of relieving muscles and clearing away heat, and is used to treat symptoms of exogenous wind-cold, evil stagnation and heat transformation, with severe fever, mild aversion to cold, headache and dry nose.

10. Pueraria root can relieve muscle pain and release exterior: Pueraria root acetone extract can restore body temperature to normal and is effective for various types of fever. Therefore, it is often used for symptoms such as fever, thirst, irritability, etc.

11. Pueraria root combined with Radix Trichosanthis: Pueraria root can produce fluid and quench thirst; Radix Trichosanthis can enter the lungs and stomach to clear away the dryness and heat in the lungs and stomach, and can also nourish yin and produce fluid to quench thirst. It is a good medicine for clearing heat and producing fluid. The combination of the two has the effect of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and is used to treat symptoms such as thirst caused by febrile diseases and diabetes.

12. Pueraria root can produce fluid and quench thirst: Pueraria root moistens the throat and removes dryness, making people feel refreshed and comfortable. Suitable for people who suffer from dry mouth, dry eyes, excessive thinking, lack of sleep, and excessive talking.

13. Pueraria root can lower blood sugar and blood lipids: Puerarin has a significant effect on lowering blood sugar. The flavonoids contained in Pueraria root have a lipid-lowering effect, can lower serum cholesterol, and lower triglycerides. It is used to treat hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia with significant therapeutic effects.

14. Pueraria root can strengthen yang and waist: Pueraria root can promote sexual function, produce sperm and aid reproduction. Strengthen essence and replenish qi, improve semen quality and enhance sperm motility. It is suitable for treating impotence, low back pain, frequent urination caused by kidney yang deficiency and replenishing the insufficient qi of the five internal organs. Suitable for male sexual dysfunction, spermatorrhea and impotence.

15. Pueraria root is combined with Coptis chinensis and Scutellaria baicalensis: Pueraria root can relieve exterior symptoms, clear away heat, raise the yang of the spleen and stomach, and produce body fluids, as well as stop diarrhea; Coptis chinensis and Scutellaria baicalensis can clear away heat and dry dampness. The combination of the three can achieve the effects of clearing away heat, relieving exterior symptoms, drying dampness and stopping diarrhea, and is used to treat diarrhea caused by damp heat.