Kapok is not toxic, you can make soup.

Kapok flavor sweet, light, cool, to the spleen meridian, the large intestine meridian, with the spleen, dampness, heat detoxification effect. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" said it "can travel the meridians, reach the disease, and into the blood and wind to kill insects". But kapok is cold and have the effect of qi and blood, pregnant women should not drink kapok soup. The following is the practice of kapok soup:

Materials: 2 pounds of pork bones, kapok 6-8, Job's tears, adzuki beans, ginger 2 pieces

1, Job's tears, adzuki beans, kapok washed, soaked in water for half an hour.

2, pork bone first fly water, and then all the materials into a pot of clean water, large fire boil, and then turn small fire boil 1.5 hours.

3, the pork bone into the plate before adding salt according to their own taste can drink.

Extended information

Kapok contraindications:

1, the elderly and weak: the elderly if the body is weak, should be warm, generally not suitable for drinking cold products.

2, pregnant women: kapok has the effect of moving qi and blood, there is a risk of moving the fetus, it is not recommended that pregnant women drink.

People's Daily Online: pregnant women should not drink kapok soup