Alias waihua, acacia rice.
Taste and attribution of cold, sweet and flat taste; into the liver, large intestine meridian.
Effects and IndicationsCooling the blood to stop bleeding, clearing the liver and reducing fire. Mainly used for treating intestinal bleeding, hemorrhoidal blood, urinary blood, hemorrhagic drenching, collapse and leakage, ah blood, red and white dysentery, eye redness, sores, high blood pressure and other diseases.
Nutritional composition per 100 grams of fresh products containing 78 grams of water, protein 3.1 grams, fat O.7 grams, 15 grams of carbohydrates, calcium 8.3 mg, phosphorus 69 milligrams, iron 3.6 milligrams, 0.04 milligrams of carotene, vitamin B1 0.04 milligrams of vitamin B2 0.18 milligrams of niacin 6.6 milligrams of vitamin C 66 milligrams. In addition, also contains rutin, acacia and other substances.
Therapeutic effects
1. Cooling the blood and stopping bleeding Sophora japonica is mainly used for bleeding belongs to the blood-heat conditions, can be used with the ground elm treatment of lower bleeding such as blood in stool, blood in urine, hemorrhoidal blood, with the immortal cranesbill, leucaena root treatment of upper bleeding such as hemoptysis, epistaxis and so on.
2. Lowering blood pressure, preventing stroke The rutin contained in acacia flowers is a vitamin with enhanced capillary resistance, which can enhance the elasticity of blood vessel wall and improve the toughness of capillaries, and it can prevent cerebral vascular rupture of patients with high blood pressure, and it can prevent stroke; acacia flower liquid has a significant blood pressure-lowering effect on anesthetized dogs.
Health care recipes
1. acacia flower wine 100 grams of acacia flowers, 750 milliliters of white wine, sugar. Pick the open acacia flower buds, packed in gauze, and white wine with the container, add the right amount of sugar, sealed, 2 months to drink. Each drink 30 ~ 5O ml, 1 time a day. This wine is sweet and fragrant, has the effect of lowering blood pressure, preventing stroke, stomach digestion, eliminating fatigue, applicable to the elderly cardiovascular disease and spleen deficiency and nausea, tiredness and sleep, obesity and other diseases.
2. Sophora drink Chen Sophora 10 grams, 30 grams of round-grained rice, brown sugar. First boil rice to take rice soup, the acacia flower research surface transfer people in rice soup, add brown sugar moderate service. This drink is sweet and refreshing, with cool blood to stop bleeding, clear the liver and reduce the effect of fire, applicable to the wind heat caused by internal disturbance of blood in the stool, red eyes, hemorrhoids and other diseases.
3. Chrysanthemum and acacia tea chrysanthemum, acacia flowers, green tea 3 grams each. Chrysanthemum, acacia flowers, wash, drain, and tea with the cup, steeped in boiling water for a few moments, and then drink. This tea is fragrant and has the effect of clearing the liver and wind, lowering fire and brightening the eyes, quenching thirst and removing vexation, which has a certain effect on assisting in the treatment of high blood pressure, and is also suitable for eye redness, blurred eyes, thirst, vexation and other diseases.
Precautions acacia flowers are cold, yang qi deficiency, spleen and stomach cold people eat with caution.
Selected Literature
"Rihuazi Materia Medica:" "Treatment of five hemorrhoids, heartache, eye redness."
Da Ming Materia Medica: "Treating five hemorrhoids, heartache, eye redness, killing abdominal worms and skin wind-heat, intestinal wind and diarrhea, red and white dysentery, and frying and researching to take."
The Compendium of Materia Medica: "Stir-frying and chewing frequently, treating loss of voice and laryngeal paralysis. It also treats vomiting blood, smoking blood, and leakage in collapse."
Cultural Appreciation
Tang - Weng Chengzan. "Title of the locust": "Make-up in the rain looking at the yellow, seducing the cicadas to send the setting sun. I remember the days when I was with the counting officials, and my horse's hooves were busy for the king all day long."
Jin Zhao Bingwen. The Jade Hall of Locust Flowers: "The Jade Hall is shaded by a cold window screen, and the rain leads the seal snail through the silver mud. The grasses and the sunflower are all gone, and the bees are picking acacia flowers all over the garden."
Qing Dynasty - Ye Shen Xiang.
Ye Shen Xiang. Sophora": "The wind is fragrant, and the rain is full of yellow Sophora flowers. The yellow acacia flowers, hard work in the past years, three times had been busy. The business of the mother-in-law is glad to be strong, and it is cool to return to the tall trees to extend the light of autumn. Extend the autumn light, quit the nest guest swallow, noise night song essence."
History: According to the "Rites of Zhou", "the face of the three acacias, the three Dukes of the world". It means that when you meet the son of heaven, three males face three acacia trees and stand. Tang Dynasty, there is a "yellow acacia flowers, busy lifting the son of" said. Wu Cheng note: the words of the acacia Huai also, Huai Lai people in this also; Wang Anshi release cloud: yellow acacia, Huai its beauty, so the three public position; "Spring and Autumn without life package" cloud: the words of the acacia return also. Ancient tree acacia, listen to the lawsuit under, so that the feelings return to the real also.