Sophora japonica

Also known as: Sophora japonica rice, Sophora japonica pistil

Taste and flavor attribution: bitter taste, slightly cold in nature; attributed to the liver, large intestine meridian.

Good for lower gastrointestinal bleeding

Sophora has the effects of cooling blood, stopping bleeding, clearing the liver and diarrhea, etc. It can treat many kinds of bleeding disorders, such as vomiting blood, epistaxis, blood in stools, hemorrhoidal bleeding, blood in urine, and leakage of blood. It is recorded in Materia Medica Bibliografica that Sophora japonica "enters the liver and the blood portion of the large intestine and cools the blood, treating wind-heat and eye-redness, red-white diarrhea, five hemorrhoids and intestinal wind, and vomiting and disintegration of all kinds of blood." The Compendium of Materia Medica" recorded that acacia flowers "fried and chewed frequently, for loss of voice and throat paralysis, and treatment of vomiting and epistaxis, leakage in the crash." Modern pharmacological studies show that acacia also has hypolipidemic, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, anti-ulcer and other effects.

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Sophora flowers are cultivated in most parts of the country, with the highest yield in Hebei. It is a deciduous tree of the legume family, and the medicinal parts are dried flowers and flower buds. Generally harvested in the summer when the flowers will bloom, dried, raw; or with a small fire fried until the surface of the deep yellow, cool, that is, fried acacia; or with a large fire fried until the surface of the charred brown, and then spray a little water, dry, that is, acacia charcoal. Clear the liver and fire, clearing heat and cool the blood with raw acacia flowers, stop bleeding with acacia charcoal, fried acacia flowers to clear heat and cool the blood of the role of the weaker than the raw product, the role of bleeding is inferior to the acacia flower charcoal and stronger than the raw product. Modern research has found that acacia flowers contain rutin, quercetin, sennosol, tannin, and acacia rice methanogen.

Effects

Effects cool the blood to stop bleeding, clear the liver and diarrhea.

Attention:1. For all kinds of bleeding caused by blood heat, especially for lower gastrointestinal bleeding, such as blood in stool, hemorrhoidal bleeding.2. For headache, redness of the eyes and dizziness caused by inflammation of the liver fire.3. For the treatment of headache, redness of the eyes and dizziness caused by inflammation of the liver fire.

Authenticity

Sophora is a dry flower, most of the petals scattered, complete flowers in the shape of a bird of prey, 5 petals, yellow or light brown, wrinkled, curled, the base of the calyx tube yellowish-green, the apex of the 5 lobed, androgynous yellowish, whiskered, sometimes curved, ovary dilated. Jasmine also dry flowers, yellowish brown or tan, crown tube base color slightly darker, unopened buds all closely stacked into a ball, calyx tubular, with slender cleft teeth 8 to 10, the outer surface has a longitudinal crinkled stripes, long sparse short hairs, petal segments elliptic, apex mucronate or obtuse, the base united into a tube.

Precautions

Sophora is easy to hurt stomach yang, solid spleen and stomach cold people should be cautious.