Pueraria lobata: Characteristics

Long-cut rectangular thick slices or small squares, 5 to 35cm long and 0.5 to 1cm thick. The outer skin is light brown, longitudinally wrinkled, and rough. The cut surface is yellowish white. Tough and fibrous. Odorless, slightly sweet taste.

Chemical composition

Contains a variety of flavonoids. The main active ingredients are daidzein, daidzin, puerarin, and puerarin-7- Xyloside (puerarin-7-xyloside), etc.

Nature and flavor

Cold in nature, sweet and pungent in taste.

Functions and Indications

Relieve superficial symptoms, reduce fever, promote fluid production, clear rash, promote yang and stop diarrhea. It is used for exogenous fever, headache, high blood pressure, strong neck pain, thirst, quenching thirst, measles, heat dysentery, and diarrhea.

Choose prescriptions

①To cure measles: Kudzu root and goldenrod are five qian each.

Take it with boiled water.

② To treat vomiting of blood: Kudzu root, when bleeding occurs, Wupao root and Sophora flavescens root each cost 5 qian to 1 shang.

Simmer in water and take it.

③ To treat diabetes: 2 liang of kudzu root and 1 liang of rouge root.

Simmer in water and drink.

④ To treat white canker sores: take 5 minutes each of fresh bitter kudzu root (grinded on charcoal) and dried alum powder.

Mix well and apply to the affected area of ??the mouth.

Currently, kudzu powder is sold on the market. It is mainly the starch of kudzu. Its functions and health care values ??include: breast enlargement and beauty, hyperlipidemia, pharyngitis, cooling and reducing internal heat, appetizer and food, diuretic and detoxification. Wine has special effects and a good auxiliary effect

Puerarin extracted from Pueraria lobata has the effect of dilating coronary arteries and cerebral arteries, lowering blood pressure, and significantly increasing the blood supply to ischemic tissues. Slows down heart failure, reduces myocardial oxygen consumption, can reduce myocardial ischemia, limit and reduce the scope of myocardial infarction, resist tachyarrhythmia, can reduce cholesterol and blood viscosity, inhibit platelet aggregation, and improve microcirculation . Arrowroot contains more than ten kinds of amino acids and more than ten kinds of trace elements needed by the human body, among which calcium, zinc, and phosphorus are the highest. The rich "sun" elements contained in arrowroot have certain anti-cancer and anti-cancer effects.

There are reports that Pueraria lobata powder has serious side effects, mainly due to various side effects caused by exogenous estrogen to the human body. Please be cautious when using it for a long time.