The efficacy and function of kudzu flower

In traditional Chinese medicine, many flowers and fruits are very good Chinese medicinal materials, which can cure many diseases if used in the right way. Many parents will give their children water mixed with kudzu flowers to drink after their children get drunk. It is said to have the effect of sobering up and making the drunk people feel less headache and uncomfortable. Below I will explain to you the effects and functions of Kudzu flowers. After understanding them, you can use them in your daily life to relieve some physical discomfort.

1. The role and efficacy of Pueraria lobata flower

1. The efficacy of Pueraria lobata flower

Pueraria flower is the dried flower bud of the leguminous plant Pueraria. Pueraria flower has the effect of detoxifying and invigorating the spleen. It is good at detoxifying alcohol, invigorating the spleen and stomach and quenching thirst. Pueraria flower is mainly used to treat symptoms such as headache and dizziness, thirst and vomiting, and chest fullness caused by excessive drinking.

1) Kudzu flower is used to treat excessive drinking, vomiting and sputum, restlessness, chest and diaphragm congestion, trembling hands and feet, decreased appetite, and difficulty urinating: 3 fen of lotus peel (remove the pith), 5 fen of costus root, 1.5 qian of tangerine peel (remove the white part), ginseng (remove the stem), Poria (remove the black skin), and white Poria, each 1.5 qian, Shenqu (fried until yellow), Alisma, dried ginger, and Atractylodes, each 2 qian, and 5 qian of white cardamom seeds, kudzu flower, and Amomum villosum. Grind it into a very fine powder, weigh and mix evenly, take three spoonfuls each time, mixed with white soup. If you can sweat slightly, the alcoholism will be gone. (Gehua hangover-relieving soup from "Discussion on the Spleen and Stomach")

2. Kudzu flower is used to treat heat accumulation caused by drinking alcohol, toxic damage to the spleen and stomach, vomiting blood, fever, thirst, and scanty red urine: 1 liang of kudzu flower, 1 qian of coptis root, 1 liang of talc (ground in water), and 5 qian of powder grass. Grind into fine powder, mix with water to make pills, take one qian each time with boiling water. (Gehua Qingre Pills from Southern Yunnan Materia Medica)

2. The role of Pueraria lobata flower

Kudzu can be divided into wild kudzu and cultivated kudzu. Kudzu consists of kudzu vines, roots, leaves and flowers, each with different medicinal value, among which kudzu flowers are the most expensive. It is called "Shen Nong's Herbal Classic", "Medical Encyclopedia", "Eastern Medicine Collection·Difficult Diseases", "Compendium of Materia Medica" and so on: "It can relieve alcohol and invigorate the spleen". Therefore, among the people, and even in the field of traditional Chinese medicine in our country, there has been a saying for thousands of years: "You can drink a thousand cups without getting drunk on the wild kudzu flower." This kudzu flower tea is all collected from wild kudzu vine flowers in the plateau forests. It is all pure flowers without any other tea or kudzu root mixture, thus maintaining its effects and original flavor. At the same time, kudzu flowers can be brewed into tea, which has a light yellow and bright green color and a natural fragrance. Drinking it not only has the function of sobering up, but also has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, nourishing the liver, protecting the stomach, and tonifying the kidneys. Drinking it 15 minutes before drinking can greatly increase your alcohol tolerance; drinking it after drinking can promote the rapid decomposition and excretion of alcohol, thereby sobering up quickly and reducing liver pressure.

2. How to eat kudzu root flowers

1. Kudzu Flower Pills:

Ingredients: 15g kudzu flower, 15g amomum, 30g costus root, 7.5g agarwood, 7.5g cardamom, 7.5g cubeb, 30g tangerine peel (peeled), 14 black plums, 21 pinellia (soaked seven times in soup, soaked in juice, boiled, dried, cut into slices, and stir-fried with ginger for dry use), 15g yam, 7.5g poria, 30g aurantium immaturum (remove the pulp and stir-fry with bran), 15g kudzu powder, 7.5g licorice (roasted).

Usage: Grind the above ingredients into powder, add refined honey to make pills, as big as longan. Take 1 pill each time and dissolve it in the mouth.

Function: Sober up, remove dampness, detoxify and eliminate phlegm.

Indications: Excessive drinking, vomiting and sputum.

Source: Volume 253 of Puji Fang.

2. Kudzu Flower Powder

Ingredients: 30g each of Kudzu flower and small bean curd

Usage: Grind the above medicines into powder. Take 2-3 grams each time. You can also take Pueraria root drink or loquat leaf drink from time to time, or take 1 gram of salt first and then drink twice the amount of wine.

Preparation method: the above is powder.

Indications: drunkenness, poisoning.

Dosage and Administration: Take 1 large spoonful of the medicine with boiling water at any time; it can also be decocted and taken orally.

Source: Volume 7 of "Elbow Back Prescription".

3. Kudzu flower soup

Ingredients: Pueraria root powder, adzuki bean flower, Patchouli leaf, white cardamom, Alpinia oxyphylla seed, Amomum villosum, Cyperus rotundus, Plantago seed, Pueraria flower, Pueraria lobata pistil, sandalwood, costus root, clove, agarwood, orange peel, tangerine peel, ginger shavings, cinnamon, Atractylodes macrocephala, Alisma orientalis, Poria cocos, ginseng, and licorice in equal parts.

Preparation method: Grind the above ingredients into fine powder. It can be taken with soup or mixed with wine; or made into pills with ginger juice paste, as big as sycamore seeds, and taken with wine.

Dosage and Administration: After taking the medicine, if you have a slight sweat at the nose, the symptoms will subside.

Efficacy: Eliminates alcohol dampness from both upper and lower parts.

Indications: alcohol-induced damage.

Source: Volume 11 of "Ji Yang Gang Mu".