Kapok, also known as Panzhihua, Mo Lian, Red Jasmine, Black Lotus and Red Cotton, has high ornamental value, and its flowers, skins, leaves and roots all have medicinal value. In spring, kapok has long leaves, and the flowers are big and red, gorgeous and pleasing to the eye. Liu Kezhuang, a poet in the Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem, "A few trees have been red for a long time, but people say it is kapok".

Kapok is both wild and cultivated. Like dry heat and high temperature, its flowers, skins, leaves and roots have medicinal value. Kapok has the effects of clearing away heat and diuresis, detoxifying and relieving summer heat, and stopping bleeding. Kapok skin has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, promoting blood circulation, reducing swelling and detoxifying, and has obvious curative effect on chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, diarrhea and dysentery. Kapok skin for external use can treat pain, sores and bruises on legs and knees. Dry cooking porridge or soup with kapok can clear away heat and toxic materials, dispel cold and remove dampness, and recommend several traditional Chinese medicine remedies:

1. Treatment of dysentery: kapok, honeysuckle and Pteris multifida each 15g, decocted in water.

2, treatment of damp-heat diarrhea: kapok15g, houttuynia cordata12g, amaranth head 30g, decocted.

3. Treating female wind in Yuezi: 60g of kapok root bark, 30g of safflower louse female head root, decocted in water and served with wine.

4, treatment of lung cancer, intestinal cancer: kapok root 15 ~ 30 grams, 3 bowls of water to take more than half a bowl of warm clothes.

5, cure stomach pain: 30 grams of kapok root or bark, 6 grams of thorns, decocted.