Kapok congee is not suitable for young and old, pregnant women, weak spleen and stomach to eat, although the kapok as a medicinal herb in Guangdong, but it is still recommended not to consume too much about kapok, especially in the spring and summer.

Kapok, whether it is used in five-flower tea, or soup, it is advisable to spring and summer should not be fall and winter. In addition, in the spring and summer seasons, do not drink a lot of kapok. Damp-heat constitution of people, if only for health care, one meal a week is enough.

Kapok is cold in nature, the following people are best not to drink kapok soup.

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.

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Cultivation techniques of kapok

Propagation by sowing, cutting and division. Capsule not split before collection, seed germination force short retention period, so more with the picking and sowing, can also be used for short-term storage of wet sand, strip sowing, mulching 2cm, the average temperature of 20 ℃ or more, generally 4 ~ 5d can be out of the seedling;

Cuttings are more in February to March or the rainy season, with a length of 80 to 100cm, cross diameter of 1 ~ 2cm of the large branches; inserted into the seedbed 10 ~ 15cm deep, and often to keep the bed moist! The planting is from the root of the mother plant, even a section of the mother root and fibrous roots cut off the planting is more likely to survive.

Cultivation of rootstocks

Because of the high oil content of the seeds, easy to deteriorate the loss of germination force, generally require timely sowing in the year after harvest. Seedbed nursery using strip sowing and sowing, strip sowing row spacing 20cm, 5cm deep, ditch seeding. Mulch 2cm, topsoil cover grass;

6 ~ 7d after sowing began to germinate, 13 ~ 15d basic out of all. Seedlings out of the ground in a timely manner loosening and weeding, and appropriate inter-seedling weeding, pay attention to pest control. Seedling height 4 ~ 5cm, there are more than 2 pieces of primary leaves;

can be moved into the nutrient bag, seedling height of about 40cm can be transplanted to cultivate large seedlings. When the seedlings chest diameter has 1m ~ 115cm can be grafted.

Grafting time

In the Panzhihua area, it is appropriate to choose February to March and June to July grafting of cottonwood. 2 ~ March temperature rebound fast, cottonwood began to sprout twigs, grafting at this time is easy to survive. 4 ~ May temperature is high, easy to lead to the scion drying out. 6 ~ July is the Panzhihua area rainy season is more concentrated period of time, the temperature has dropped, grafting should be avoided when the rainy days.

Selection of scion

From the flowering of the cottonwood mother tree to choose two years of robust growth, full, full of buds, no pests and diseases of the year unflowering branches as scion. Requirements for the selected scion diameter thickness between 0.17cm ~ 1.2cm, bud spacing 1 ~ 2cm.

The collection of scion strips should be immediately cut off the leaves to reduce the moisture loss of the branch, and will be wrapped with a wet towel put in the shade, preferably with the collection. Scion need to be stored for several days can be buried in the sand bed with paraffin wax seals at both ends, covering the sand layer 4cm ~ 6cm thick, and pay attention to moisturizing and ventilation.

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