Can the fruit of Paulownia patens be eaten?

The white flowered Paulownia fruit is a fruit that can be used as medicine. It contains many nutrients that are beneficial to the body. Under normal circumstances, the white flowered Paulownia fruit is used in combination with other Chinese herbal medicines. It has different effects. It has a better effect on alleviating and treating bronchitis, expectorant and cough, and antibacterial. It is very helpful to human health, but the white flowered Paulownia fruit cannot be taken directly.

1. Can the white Paulownia fruit be eaten?

Although the white flowered Paulownia fruit is the most common Chinese medicinal material, it is decided not to be taken directly. When it is used as a medicine, it can be soaked in tap water or combined with other Chinese medicinal materials to have different therapeutic effects. It also has a good effect on bronchitis.

2. The function of white Paulownia fruit

1. Antitussive and phlegm-reducing effects

Giving Paulownia tomentosa fruit decoction or Paulownia fruit alcohol extract to mice had significant cough-relieving and expectorant effects (sulfur dioxide or sodium hydroxide cough-inducing method).

2. Expectorant effect

When anesthetized dogs were given a decoction of Paulownia tomentosa fruit orally, bronchial excretion did not increase. Injection of Paulownia fruit alcohol extract into the abdomen of mice has a significant expectorant effect (phenol red method). Paulownia leaf foam extract also has the effect of reducing phlegm.

3. Antiasthmatic effect

Injection of Paulownia tomentosa fruit decoction or Paulownia tomentosa fruit alcohol extract into the abdomen of guinea pigs has a significant antiasthmatic effect (histamine spray method). However, the latter has a stimulatory effect on paraffin-sectioned guinea pig bronchial smooth muscle and paraffin-sectioned rabbit intestine, while a higher concentration has an inhibitory effect on rabbit intestine.

4. Antibacterial effect

Paulownia fruit decoction had no inhibitory effect on several common respiratory pathogens in IVF. The injection of Paulownia flower and fruit (unspecified species) (made by extracting with alcohol and then precipitating with lead acetate to remove residues) showed a certain inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhi, Shigella dysenteriae, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Brucella, etc. in in vitro tests.