Medicinal value of kapok:

Kapok has the effects of clearing away heat and diuresis, detoxicating and removing summer heat, and stopping bleeding.

kapok bark has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, promoting blood circulation, reducing swelling and detoxicating, and has obvious curative effects on chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, diarrhea and dysentery. External use of kapok skin can treat leg and knee pain, sores, bruises and so on.

According to the Records of Lingnan Herbs Collection, kapok bark is used to treat lumbocrural paralysis, stubborn blood vessels, pain in legs and knees, red and white diarrhea.

Function of kapok:

1. Kapok is sweet, light and cool. Cooking dried kapok in porridge or soup can detoxify, clear away heat, drive away cold and remove dampness.

2. Kapok has the function of regulating the stomach. Kapok, a traditional Chinese medicine, can treat gastrointestinal dysfunction and has a good effect on chronic gastritis, abdominal distension and diarrhea.

3. Kapok has the function of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and cooking porridge with dried tangerine peel can strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach, moisten the lungs and relieve cough, cool blood and benefit blood

4. Boiled water with Kapok peel also has the functions of clearing heat, diuresis and detoxification, and has obvious curative effects on chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, diarrhea and dysentery.