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.

Kapok tree skin is flat, which has the function of expelling wind and removing dampness.

Flowers are 5~8 cm long, shrink when dry, and are irregular blocks, mostly without ovaries and pedicels.

The root and stem extracts of kapok can be used as astringents and analgesics. Its juice can be used to treat dysentery, and its root bark, stem bark and thorns can be ground into powder to make ointment to treat acne. It is said that whenever kapok blooms, there are many old people and children in the village. They will pick up the flowers when they fall, and then dry them, which can be used to make tea, soup and medicine.

special formula

Treat dysentery

Treat red and white dysentery

Treat damp-heat dysentery

Treating female month wind

Treating lung cancer and intestinal cancer

Treat stomachache

Bleeding after defecation

Treat arthralgia syndrome

Meridian, insecticidal. Treat rheumatism, arthralgia, dysentery, toothache and scabies.

growing environment

Belonging to tropical tree species, it likes high temperature and high humidity climate and has low cold tolerance. In case of long-term low temperature of 5~8℃, its branches will suffer from freezing injury to avoid frost. Guangzhou, Nanning and other places in southern China can safely overwinter in the open field in normal years and suffer from freezing injury in cold years. In the vast areas of northern South China and even North China, only potted plants can be moved into greenhouses or indoors in winter. Room temperature should not be lower than 10℃, so it likes light.

The requirements for soil are not harsh. Sandy soil or clay are suitable, like acidic soil, and are more resistant to drought and water. The requirements for fertility are not very high. Generally, the soil with medium fertility and high phosphorus and potassium fertilizer has lush flowers, bright colors and sufficient water, and the soil with high nitrogen fertilizer has lush branches and leaves and many flowers, but the color is not bright. When planting, decomposed cake fertilizer or garbage should be applied as base fertilizer before and during flowering.