What are the effects and functions of Pueraria lobata?

Pueraria root is a good Chinese medicinal material. It is mainly made from the leguminous plant Pueraria lobata. Its growing environment is quite special and it can grow even in the cold winter. Clinically, Pueraria root is often used to make medicinal materials with very good therapeutic effects, and it is surprisingly effective for treating yin deficiency or spleen deficiency. So, what are the effects and functions of Pueraria root?

effect

Relieve muscles and reduce fever, clear rashes, promote fluid production and quench thirst, raise yang and stop diarrhea.

Indications

It is used for fever due to superficial symptoms, stiffness and pain in the neck and back, measles that does not break out, thirst due to febrile disease, polydipsia due to yin deficiency, hot diarrhea and dysentery, and diarrhea due to spleen deficiency.

Related Combinations

1. Headache and high fever caused by seasonal weather: Wash raw Pueraria root, mash it into a large cup of juice, add one cup of fermented black beans, boil for six minutes, remove the residue and divide it into portions to drink. The symptoms will be cured when sweat comes out. Take again if you don’t sweat. If the heart is hot, add ten gardenia seeds. (Sheng Hui Fang)

2. To prevent fever and acute jaundice and typhoid fever: 2 liters of kudzu powder, 1 liter of raw rehmannia root, and half a liter of fragrant beans. To disperse. Take one inch of it with rice water after each meal, three times a day. Five mourning clothes for illness. (Pang Anchang, Treatise on Febrile Diseases)

3. To avoid infection from malaria: drink a small cup of juice made from raw kudzu root to remove heat, toxins and gases. (Sheng Hui Fang)

4. Irritability, heat and thirst: 4 liang of kudzu powder, first soak half a liter of millet in water, strain it out overnight, mix well, and cook it into porridge. (Sheng Hui Fang)

5. Incessant dry heaving: Crush the Pueraria root into juice, take one liter, and the condition will be cured. (Behind the Elbow)

Dosage

Decoction: 9-15g.

Taboo

It should not be used by those suffering from deficiency-cold, and should be used with caution by those suffering from stomach-cold and vomiting.

Preparation method

Remove impurities, wash, soak, cut into thick slices, and dry.

Physiological characteristics

A sturdy vine that can grow up to 8 meters long, covered with long, stiff yellow hairs, with a woody base and thick, tuberous roots. Pinnate compound leaves with 3 leaflets; stipules dorsifixed, ovate-oblong, linear; stipules linear-lanceolate, as long as or longer than petiolules; leaflets three-lobed, occasionally entire, terminal leaflet broadly ovate or obliquely ovate, 8-15(-19) cm long, 5-12(-18) cm wide, apex long acuminate, lateral leaflets obliquely ovate, slightly smaller, covered with yellowish, prostrate pubescence above. The petiole is densely covered with yellow hairs. The pods are oblong, 5-9 cm long, 8-11 mm wide, flat, and covered with long brown stiff hairs. The flowering period is from September to October, and the fruiting period is from November to December. It grows in grass on hillsides, on roadsides, and in relatively shady and moist places, or in ravine forests at an altitude of 1000-3200 meters.