The medicinal value of kapok (generally referred to as kapok tree) has a long medicinal history, and its flowers, skins and roots all have medicinal value. Dry cooking porridge or soup with kapok can detoxify, clear away heat, drive away cold and dehumidify; Boiled water with kapok bark also has the effects of clearing heat, diuresis and detoxification, and has obvious curative effect on chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, diarrhea and dysentery.
Kapok has a flat flower and a light and astringent taste. Has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, removing toxic materials, relieving summer-heat, astringing and stopping bleeding. Can be used for treating diseases such as diarrhea, dysentery, bloody collapse, and sores. The usual dosage is 15 ~ 30g.
The kapok bark used as medicine from the bark of Erythrina in Guangdong and Guangxi is bitter in taste and flat in nature. Decocting in water has the effects of clearing heat, 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.
Kapok root is sweet in taste and cool in nature, and has the effects of astringing, stopping bleeding, dispersing stagnation and relieving pain. It is mainly used to treat chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, dysentery, lymphoid tuberculosis, postpartum edema and other diseases. Many old Chinese medicine practitioners often use kapok roots to prevent and treat esophageal cancer and lung cancer.
The use value of kapok is also very extensive, and its stamen is a good fabric material. The ancient book records that "the kapok tree is two or three feet high and cut into paulownia. In February and March, the flowers are both withered and the core is cotton. He wove it into a blanket, white as snow and extremely warm. " On the other hand, kapok is soft and can be used to make packaging boards, matchsticks, wooden boats, barrels and pots. , is also the raw material of papermaking.
Kapok health care recipes Kapok three-flower drinks.
Raw materials: dried petals of kapok 15g, honeysuckle 10g, white chrysanthemum 10g.
Production: wash kapok petals, honeysuckle and white chrysanthemum, add water to boil, and drink tea instead.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and stopping dysentery. Kapok, honeysuckle and chrysanthemum all have the function of clearing away heat. Kapok can clear heat and cool blood, honeysuckle can clear heat and detoxify, and white chrysanthemum can clear liver and improve eyesight. The combination of the three can increase the efficacy of clearing heat, cooling blood and stopping dysentery. Drinking this drink often in summer has the effect of relieving summer heat.
Mumian jujube porridge
Raw materials: fresh kapok 30g, red dates 10, japonica rice100g, and proper amount of honey.
Making:
1. Wash kapok and red dates, add water to decoct juice, and remove residues for later use;
2. Wash the japonica rice, add water and kapok red dates to cook porridge;
When the porridge is almost finished, add some honey and cook it a little.
Efficacy: invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, moistening lung and relieving cough. Kapok has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, detoxicating and stopping bleeding. Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae and honey can moisten the lungs and relieve cough, while japonica rice can strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach. The combination of the three can increase the functions of invigorating spleen, promoting diuresis, moistening lung and relieving cough, especially for the elderly with qi deficiency.
Kapok, the symbol of knowledge and culture, is now the city flower of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, Chongzuo City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province and Kaohsiung City, Taiwan Province Province. The signs used by Garden Hotel, South China University of Technology, China Southern Airlines and Guangzhou TV Station all have kapok patterns, while Guangdong TV Station used kapok signs in the past.