It can be brewed with boiling water at about 70℃ for 3 ~ 5 minutes each time. It's best to have only 2 ~ 4 yuan at a time. Generally 1 piece of boat-fruited Sterculia can be brewed about 3 times a day, while 2 ~ 4 pieces of boat-fruited Sterculia can be brewed repeatedly every day.

Boat-fruited Sterculia is cold, which can clear the bowels and relieve constipation, so it is used for constipation and poor defecation caused by heat accumulation in large intestine. However, this product can not replace laxatives, and can only treat mild constipation.

Boat-fruited Sterculia can clear lung heat and moisten lung dryness, so it can be used to treat lung heat or lung dryness and cough. Boat-fruited Sterculia can be mixed with dried tangerine peel and honeysuckle for drinking, which can cure lung dryness and cough.

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Precautions:

1. The outer layer of the seed of Sterculia lychnophoroides contains tragacanth mucin, and the pericarp contains galactose and pentose. Another study shows that boat-fruited Sterculia can promote small intestine peristalsis and produce mild diarrhea, so people with bad stomach should not take it for a long time.

2. Very few people have allergic reaction to boat-fruited Sterculia, even fatal.

3. After the boat-fruited Sterculia is drunk, the effective components are detoxified and transformed by the liver, and the water and redundant components are excreted by the kidney. If you drink a lot of boat-fruited Sterculia for a long time, it will cause excessive burden on liver and kidney. If you already have liver and kidney discomfort, it will aggravate liver and kidney problems.

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