Taste and function are light, astringent and flat. Clearing heat, promoting diuresis and detoxicating. Used for diarrhea, dysentery, bloody collapse and sore poison. The usual dosage is 5 ~ 10g.
Note: The bark of kapok is used as medicine in Guangdong, which is called Guangdong Pittosporum bark. Bitter in taste and flat in nature, it has the effect of expelling wind and dampness. Function: clearing away heat, promoting diuresis and detoxifying. Used for diarrhea, dysentery, bloody collapse and sore poison.
Taste: light, astringent and flat.
Kapok is a treasure all over the body, and flowers, skins and roots have medicinal value. In particular, kapok has the effects of clearing away heat and diuresis, detoxifying and relieving summer heat, and stopping bleeding. In spring, Chinese medicine often says that wet weight can cause symptoms such as weakness of limbs, indigestion and joint pain. Boiling kapok tea has a better effect on relieving the above symptoms.
Fresh ones must be dried before use. You can make soup or porridge. You can also cook pig bones with Smilax glabra and lentils.
Spring is rainy and humid, and "moody", sometimes cold and sometimes hot, and the temperature difference between morning and evening is large. It's easy to catch a cold if you don't pay attention to this weather. In addition, spring is the high incidence season of influenza, and the diet should be based on eliminating dampness, strengthening the spleen and warming up. Cantonese people use kapok and pig bones or old chicken soup to cook soup or porridge, and then add some candied dates, dried tangerine peel, coix seed and so on. It is really helpful to drink a bowl of soup made of kapok at the turn of spring and summer. Don't look at the clusters of kapok hanging on the branches as red as fire, but it has the unique effect of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis.
Fresh and non-toxic, dried kapok has high medicinal value, and flowers can be eaten. Mainly used for detoxification, clearing heat, expelling cold and dampness, and can be used for soup and porridge.
According to Lingnan Herbal Collection, the flowers, skins and roots of kapok have medicinal value. Kapok has the effects of clearing away heat and diuresis, detoxifying and relieving summer heat, and stopping bleeding. The folk prescription "spiced tea" for treating damp-heat, diarrhea, bloody stool is made of kapok mixed with frangipani, honeysuckle, Sophora japonica and pueraria lobata, or simply decocted with kapok.
When the wet weather is heavy, put a few kapok flowers in the porridge to dispel dampness and transport the spleen. In summer, when children are hot and anorexia, you can use kapok to boil water and add sugar instead of tea. Hemoptysis and hematemesis, metrorrhagia and metrorrhagia in women, sore poison and golden sore bleeding can also be treated with kapok.
In addition, kapok skin has the effects of clearing heat, diuresis, promoting blood circulation, reducing swelling and detoxifying, and has obvious curative effects 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 has the effects of astringing, stopping bleeding, resolving hard mass and relieving pain, and is mainly used to treat chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, dysentery, lymph node tuberculosis, postpartum edema and other diseases.
Now pick up fresh kapok, take some flowers, add lean meat and two dates and add water to make soup. This effect is better than sun drying, and it tastes good.
Broken kapok
Practice: stew kapok and lean pork together, which is not only delicious, but also said to cure fever and bloodshot phlegm. Add a proper amount of washed and soaked kapok to the fried chopped green onion, Jiang Mo and other lean meat, stir-fry for 5 minutes, and add a proper amount of salt and vegetable.
Kapok is sweet and light, and can be cooked with Chinese cabbage for porridge. Has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, and can be used for treating enteritis and stomachache.
Qingre Qushi-Kapok Decoction
Materials: 200g of pig bones (spine, big bones and ribs), 6 fresh kapok flowers, 30g of coix seed and 30g of lentils (harmless).
7 or 8 figs (or candied dates can be used instead), 2 pieces of dried tangerine peel (harmless) and 2 or 3 pieces of ginger.
Exercise:
1. Boil pig bones in enough water to remove floating foam, add all the above materials, turn to low heat after boiling and cook slowly for about 2 hours.
2. Add salt and a little chicken powder.
It is healthy to make soup with fresh kapok.
Attachment: Hu Aishan Kapok Decoction (2 ~ 3 people) Tips: It has the effect of eliminating dampness and strengthening the spleen.
Ingredients: 30 grams of glutinous rice; 30 grams of lentils; 30 grams of Euryale ferox; 30g of Chinese yam (dry) (250g of fresh Chinese yam); Kapok (fresh) 3 flowers.
To make soup, add 250 grams of pig bones; For porridge, increase rice100g.
Practice: wash all the materials and put them in a pot (for example, porridge can be put in a rice cooker), and add appropriate amount of water. After boiling, it takes 2 hours to boil the soup; If porridge is cooked, the rice can be eaten when it is cooked.
Dry kapok in the sun, then add water and boil for ten minutes before drinking. The effect is equivalent to boiling herbal tea. You can add some salt to drink, which has the effect of eliminating dampness and clearing heat.
Bitter gourd kapok beef soup, efficacy: it has the effect of diuresis and dampness, eyesight and detoxification.
Ingredients: 500g of bitter gourd, 50g of kapok, 450g of beef and 3 slices of ginger.
Practice: Wash bitter gourd, cut off the pulp and slice it; Wash kapok and soak it; Wash beef and slice it. Add water and ginger slices to the casserole, bring to a boil, add bitter gourd and kapok, turn to medium heat for 45 minutes, add beef, roll until cooked, and season with salt.
Fresh kapok crucian carp soup: efficacy: moistening dryness and eliminating dampness
Ingredients: 4 fresh kapok, 65438+ 0 crucian carp, 3 ginger slices.
Practice: Wash fresh kapok, soak it in light salt water, and then wash it; Wash the crucian carp and fry it in a hot pot until it is slightly yellow; Put a proper amount of water into the casserole, add all the ingredients, boil over high fire, then simmer 1 hour, and season with salt.
Kapok coix seed pig bone soup: it can clear away heat and toxic materials, strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis.
Ingredients: 50g kapok, 20g coix seed, 30g lentil, 500g pig bone, 2 candied dates and 3 slices of ginger.
Practice: Wash everything, chop pig bones into pieces, pick them up and put them into water, pour a proper amount of water into the casserole, boil them, put them into the pot for about 2 hours, and add salt to taste.
Hu Aishan kapok decoction (2 ~ 3 people) suggests that it has the effect of eliminating dampness and strengthening the spleen.
Ingredients: 30 grams of glutinous rice; 30 grams of lentils; 30 grams of Euryale ferox; 30g of Chinese yam (dry) (250g of fresh Chinese yam); Kapok (fresh) 3 flowers.
To make soup, add 250 grams of pig bones; For porridge, increase rice100g.
Practice: wash all the materials and put them in a pot (for example, porridge can be put in a rice cooker), and add appropriate amount of water. After boiling, it takes 2 hours to boil the soup; If porridge is cooked, the rice can be eaten when it is cooked.
Kapok crucian carp soup
Ingredients: a tail of crucian carp (about 250g), 30g of fresh kapok petals, 50g of mushrooms, 30g of bamboo shoots, onion, ginger, yellow wine, salt, pepper and monosodium glutamate.
Production: remove gills and viscera from crucian carp, wash and drain water; Wash kapok petals and control water; Slice the tips of mushrooms and bamboo shoots; When the oil in the pot is hot, add ginger and onion to stir-fry until fragrant, then fry crucian carp in the pot, add water, add mushrooms, bamboo shoots, kapok petals, yellow wine and pepper, and cook; Finally, season with monosodium glutamate and salt.
Efficacy: invigorating spleen and nourishing stomach, clearing heat and promoting diuresis, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.
Kapok and crucian carp can clear away heat and promote diuresis, crucian carp can also strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach, and mushrooms and bamboo shoots are more delicious. Polysaccharides in mushrooms also have the functions of enhancing immunity and resisting cancer.
Kapok shrimp tofu
Ingredients: fresh kapok petals 30g, tofu 500g, shrimp 100g, bamboo shoots 50g, ham 30g, mung bean 50g, chicken soup, salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper, ginger and scallion.
Production: wash kapok petals and control water; Wash shrimps and control water for later use; Dice bamboo shoots and ham and cut tofu into small pieces; The oil in the pot is hot. Stir-fry the ginger and onion first. Add shrimps, diced bamboo shoots, ham and green beans and stir fry; Then put shrimps, diced bamboo shoots and tofu into a casserole, add kapok petals, pour chicken soup and cook, and season with salt, monosodium glutamate and pepper.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, relieving depression and relieving annoyance. Kapok has the function of clearing heat and promoting diuresis, tofu can clear heat and relieve annoyance, and bamboo shoots can moisten intestines. Stewed with shrimp, ham and chicken soup, it not only smells delicious, but also increases the efficacy of clearing heat and promoting diuresis and cooling blood. Isoflavones in tofu also have antioxidant and anti-aging effects.
Kapok mushroom soup
Ingredients: 20g of fresh kapok petals, 30g of fresh Pleurotus ostreatus, 30g of fresh mushrooms, 30g of fresh Pleurotus eryngii, 30g of bamboo shoots, salt, monosodium glutamate and chicken soup. Production: fresh kapok petals are washed and blanched for use; Slice Pleurotus ostreatus, Mushroom, Pleurotus eryngii and bamboo shoots; Pour Pleurotus ostreatus, Lentinus Edodes, Pleurotus eryngii, bamboo shoots and kapok into a pot, add chicken soup and water to cook, and season with monosodium glutamate and salt. Efficacy: clearing heat and cooling blood, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach. Kapok has the function of clearing heat and cooling blood, and bamboo shoots have the function of eliminating stagnation. Polysaccharides in Pleurotus ostreatus, Pleurotus ostreatus, Pleurotus eryngii and other mushrooms have the functions of regulating human immunity and resisting cancer. Their combination not only tastes delicious, but also has enhanced efficacy.