Kapok is a very beautiful flower, this flower has a very good effect, can treat many diseases in our body, it can be used as a food material, but also as a medicinal herb, the following let's take a look at the efficacy of the kapok and how to eat it!

The efficacy and role of kapok

1. "Sea Drugs Materia Medica": the main waist and feet, stubborn paralysis leg and knee pain, cholera, red and white diarrhea dysentery, dysentery, scabies.

2. "Rihuazi Materia Medica": the treatment of blood paralysis and pain, and decoction to wash the eyes red.

3. "Kai Bao Materia Medica": the main cholera in the evil, red and white long diarrhea, in addition to Gan Yin, scabies. Tooth worm pain, and boiled to serve and contain it, water immersion to wash the eyes, in addition to skin red.

4. "Compendium": can travel the meridians and channels, up to the place of disease, and into the blood and remove the wind to kill insects.

5. Lingnan Record of Cultivated Medicines: muscle, pain, blood, cool the skin, dressing bruises.

6. "Nanning City Drugs": reduce swelling, dissipate blood stasis, relieve pain. Cure cough, stop postpartum blood stasis pain.

7. "Guizhou Herbal Medicine": remove heat, dispel blood stasis, detoxification and muscle growth. Treatment of carbuncle, bone fracture.

How to eat cotton wool

Fresh cotton wool can be used as an ingredient, dried can be used as a medicine. Spring dampness is heavy, eat fresh kapok in soup has the effect of dehumidification. In addition, kapok can be used as medicine after drying. With a string of kapok on a string, hanging upside down on the balcony in the sun, and then can be used to boil water to make tea, also has the effect of dehumidification spleen.

However, not everyone is suitable for eating kapok. A Chinese medicine practitioner reminded, some gastrointestinal problems, the first recovery from a serious illness, weak or often diarrhea people should be cautious of eating kapok. Kapok itself will have the effect of stimulating the stomach and intestines, patients with poor stomach and intestines to consume kapok will aggravate the burden on the stomach and intestines, causing the occurrence of potential diseases. Most of the materials in the tea made from dried kapok are cool, usually suitable for some of the yang qi and physical fitness of the young and strong people to drink, some of the weak, weak spleen and stomach, should should be less to drink.

cotton wool soup cotton wool carp carp soup

raw materials: carp a tail (about 250 grams), fresh cotton wool petals 30 grams, 50 grams of mushrooms, bamboo shoots 30 grams of tips, white onion, ginger, yellow wine, salt, pepper, monosodium glutamate moderate.

Method: Carp gills and viscera, wash, drain water; cottonwood petals wash, water control; mushrooms, bamboo shoots tip slices. When the oil in the pot is hot, first put ginger, white onion stir-fried aroma, and then put the crucian carp into the pot to fry through, add water, and put the mushrooms, bamboo shoots, cottonwood petals, yellow wine and pepper, **** cooking; Finally, seasoned with monosodium glutamate (MSG), salt to serve.

Functions: Strengthening the spleen and stomach, clearing heat and dampness, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Kapok and crucian carp can clear heat and dampness, crucian carp can also strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach, plus mushrooms and bamboo shoots are more delicious, mushrooms in the polysaccharides and increase the body's immunity and anti-cancer effect.

Raw materials: 20 grams of fresh kapok petals, 30 grams of fresh flat mushrooms, 30 grams of fresh mushrooms, 30 grams of fresh apricot mushrooms, 30 grams of bamboo shoots, salt, monosodium glutamate, chicken broth in moderation.

Method: fresh kapok petals washed, blanched, to be used; flat mushrooms, mushrooms, apricot abalone mushrooms, bamboo shoots, thinly sliced; flat mushrooms, mushrooms, apricot abalone mushrooms, bamboo shoots and kapok, etc. poured into a pot, add chicken broth and water **** cooking, to MSG, salt seasoning can be.

Functions: clearing heat and cooling blood, strengthening the spleen and stomach. Kapok has the effect of clearing heat and cooling the blood, and bamboo shoots have the effect of removing stagnation and eliminating accumulation. The polysaccharides in mushrooms such as flat mushrooms, mushrooms, and almond mushrooms have the function of regulating the human body's immunity and anti-cancer. The combination of these is not only delicious, but also enhances the efficacy.

Ingredients: 15 grams of dried cottonwood petals, 10 grams of honeysuckle, 10 grams of white chrysanthemum.

Practice: cotton wool petals, honeysuckle and white chrysanthemum washed; add water and boil, can be drunk as tea.

Functions: clearing heat and detoxification, cooling blood and stopping dysentery. Kapok, honeysuckle and white chrysanthemum have the effect of clearing heat, kapok clears heat and cools the blood, honeysuckle clears heat and detoxifies the toxins, white chrysanthemum clears the liver and brightens the eyes, and the combination of all three increases the effect of clearing heat and cools the blood and stops dysentery. In the summer days, often drink this drink, there is the effect of summer.