The family and genus are flowers or buds of Sophora japonica, a leguminous plant.

Also known as Sophora japonica and Sophora japonica.

Cold and cool in nature, sweet and flat in taste; Entering the liver and large intestine meridian.

Efficacy is mainly used to cool blood, stop bleeding, clear liver and reduce fire. Indications: intestinal wind, bloody stool, hemorrhoid, hematuria, bloody stranguria, metrorrhagia, hematemesis, red and white dysentery, conjunctival congestion, sore poison, hypertension, etc.

Every 100g of fresh food contains water 78g, protein 3. 1g, fat 0.7g, carbohydrate 15g, calcium 8.3mg, phosphorus 69mg, iron 3.6mg, carotene 0.04mg, vitamin b 65438 0.04mg and vitamin B2 0.04. In addition, it also contains rutin, Sophora japonica and other substances.

food therapy

1. Cooling blood and stopping bleeding Sophora japonica is mainly used for bleeding and belongs to blood heat. It can be used in combination with Sanguisorba officinalis for treating lower hemorrhage such as hematochezia, hematuria and hemorrhoids, and in combination with Herba et Gemma Agrimoniae and lalang grass rhizome for treating upper hemorrhage such as hemoptysis and epistaxis.

2. Lower blood pressure and prevent stroke. Rutin contained in Sophora japonica is a vitamin, which can enhance the resistance of capillaries, enhance the elasticity of blood vessel walls and improve the toughness of capillaries, and has the functions of preventing cerebrovascular rupture and stroke in patients with hypertension; Sophora japonica liquid has obvious antihypertensive effect on anesthetized dogs.

Healthy diet

1. Sophora japonica wine100g, 750ml liquor, and proper amount of sugar. Pick the buds of Sophora japonica, wrap them in gauze, put them in a container filled with white wine, add some white sugar, seal them and drink them after 2 months. Drink 30 ~ 5oml each time, once a day 1 time. The sweet wine has the effects of lowering blood pressure, preventing apoplexy, invigorating stomach, promoting digestion, and relieving fatigue, and is suitable for cardiovascular diseases, anorexia due to spleen deficiency, lethargy, obesity and other diseases of the elderly.

2. Huaihua drink 10 Chen Huaihua, 30 grams of japonica rice, and appropriate amount of brown sugar. Boil rice into rice soup, grind Sophora japonica into rice soup, and add brown sugar. This drink is sweet and delicious, and has the effects of cooling blood, stopping bleeding, clearing liver and reducing fire. It is suitable for diseases such as bloody stool, red eyes and hemorrhoid blood caused by wind-heat imbalance.

3. Chrysanthemum, Sophora japonica and green tea are 3g each. Wash Flos Chrysanthemi and Flos Sophorae Immaturus, drain the water, put them in a cup with tea, soak them in boiling water for a while, and then drink. The tea is fragrant, and has the effects of clearing liver, expelling pathogenic wind, reducing fire, improving eyesight, quenching thirst and relieving vexation. It has a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on hypertension, and is also suitable for diseases such as red eyes, blurred vision, thirst quenching and upset.

Precautions: Sophora japonica is cold and cool, and people with yang deficiency and spleen and stomach weakness should eat carefully.

Selected document

Japanese Herbal Medicine: "Treat five hemorrhoids, heartache and red eyes."

"Daming Materia Medica": "Treat five hemorrhoids, heartache, red eyes, abdominal worms and skin wind and heat, intestinal wind and diarrhea, red and white dysentery, stir-fry."

Compendium of Materia Medica: "Stir-fried and chewed often can cure aphonia laryngitis. It also treats hematemesis, smoke and blood, and leakage during collapse. "

Cultural appreciation

Tang Weng Chengzan. "Title Huai": "Dress up in the rain to see yellow, seduce cicadas to send the sunset. Looking back, when I followed the plan, horseshoe was busy for you all day. "

Kim Zhao Bingwen. "Yutang Huaihua": "Yutang closes the cold window screen, and the rain attracts silver mud and snails. The grass is gone, and bees are buzzing around the garden to pick Sophora japonica flowers. "

Shen Peng, Qing Ye. "Remembering Huai Hua in Qin and E": "The wind is fragrant, and the rain is full of Huai Hua Huang. Sophora japonica is yellow, so I tried my best and worked hard for three times. My mother-in-law's business is strong, so it's cool to go back to Gaoshu and extend to Qiu Guang. Delay Qiu Guang, bid farewell to the Bird's Nest, and the noise at night will be fine. "

Historical legend: According to Zhou Li, "there are three faces and three positions". It means that when you meet the son of heaven, Sangong stands in front of three locust trees. There was also a saying in the Tang Dynasty that "flowers are yellow and children are busy". Wu Cheng's note: I cherish the words, and people from Huailai are here; Wang Anshi explained the cloud: Huang Huai is beautiful, so there are three; There is no life in the Spring and Autumn Period. Cloud, what you say comes back. The ancients planted a tree, listened to the lawsuit and brought the situation back to reality.

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