Pick the flowers and bask in the sun for a while. You can make cakes, cakes and the like, clearing away the liver and purging fire, and it tastes good.

Sophora japonica is the flower or bud of Sophora japonica, a deciduous tree in Leguminosae. Sophora japonica has been regarded as a "medicine for cooling blood" by doctors in past dynasties. Its nature is bitter and cold, non-toxic, and it belongs to the liver and large intestine meridian, and it has the functions of clearing heat and purging fire, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.

Efficacy and function of Sophora japonica

Bitter taste, slightly cold, liver and large intestine meridian; When blood enters, it falls, and the body is slightly scattered; It has the effects of cooling blood to stop bleeding, clearing liver-fire and purging fire, and is mainly used for treating intestinal wind, hematochezia, hemorrhoids, bloody dysentery, hematuria, bloody stranguria, metrorrhagia, hematemesis, epistaxis, headache due to liver fire, red eyes and sore throat, aphonia and carbuncle.

Nutritional value of Sophora japonica

Sophora japonica contains rutin (rutin, quercetin), tannin, sophoridiol, vitamin A and other substances. Rutin can improve the function of capillaries, maintain the normal resistance of capillaries, and prevent bleeding, hypertension and diabetes caused by excessive fragility and permeability of capillaries.

Therefore, Sophora japonica is often used as a common medicine to treat hematochezia, which is used for hemorrhoid bleeding, hematochezia, bloody dysentery and hematemesis and epistaxis caused by blood heat. Generally, it is decocted, 10 ~ 15g, which is suitable for external use. Use with caution for people with spleen and stomach weakness and fever due to yin deficiency.