Pictures of wild kudzu root
What is kudzu root
Kudzu root is the root of wild kudzu or sweet kudzu vine of the legume family, which is cool in nature with sweet and pungent taste, and belongs to the spleen, stomach and lung meridians, and it has the effect of relieving muscles and fever, generating fluids and quenching thirst, elevating the sun and stopping diarrhea, promoting the meridian and activating collaterals, and relieving the toxicity of alcohol.
Kudzu is used for external fever and headache, strong pain in the neck and back, thirst for drinking, thirst, diarrhea, alcoholism and stomach injury.
Wild Pueraria Mirifica Vine and Leaf Looks Like (Picture)
What Wild Pueraria Mirifica Looks Like
Pueraria Mirifica is very much like sweet potatoes, the ground grows with vines spreading all around, storing starch in the underground tuber, which plays a very important role in the protection of the tuber.
The kudzu dug up is usually bigger, because it is not dug every year, and the wild ones are usually allowed to grow for a few more years, so there are big and long. And kudzu is a little softer in texture than sweet potatoes, and washed kudzu is easy to split into chunks. Learn more about it specifically from each part.
Kudzu leaf shape
Kudzu's leaves are ovate, round, green in color, 8-15 centimeters in length, 5-12 centimeters in width, and relatively pointed at the tip. Its lateral leaflets are obliquely ovate, and the petioles are yellow and downy.
Also, Kudzu's leaves are pinnately compound with also three divided leaflets, and the front of the leaf is acuminate. Its leaves can be up to 19cm long by 18cm wide and are green with a hint of yellowish color.
What kudzu looks like in flower
Wild kudzu blooms in September-October and fruits in November-December each year, with small white flowers. Its racemes are axillary and the racemes are densely covered with yellowish-white tomentum.
Generally the flowers of Kudzu are densely packed, the bracts of the flowers are narrowly linear and fall early, and the bracteoles are linear-lanceolate.
What the kudzu vine looks like
Kudzu perennial vine, up to 10 meters long, it has long branches that are covered with coarse yellowish-brown hairs, and its rhizomes are very stout, much like radishes.
So usually when you go digging in the wild, seeing the kind of rhizome that grows as thick as a radish is it.
About the origin of the traditional Chinese medicine kudzu
There are many interesting legends about the origin of kudzu, and Siu Ku has chosen one of the more widely circulated stories to tell you.
According to the legend, an official surnamed Ge was framed by a treacherous minister and his whole family was killed, only the youngest son escaped successfully, and he became the only bloodline of Ge family.
The youngest son of the Ge family was later saved by an old herbalist in the mountains, and followed him to learn the art of healing the world and recognizing medicinal herbs.
He made good use of a kind of white, fat and solid grass roots into medicine, and cured many patients. Whether it is an external fever that does not go away, a damp-heat diarrhea that does not stop, or a fluid injury that is annoying and thirsty, all of them can be cured with this grass root.
People have asked what this grass root is called. Ge's youngest son couldn't help but think of the old medicinal farmer's kindness and his own life, because the old man for the Ge family to keep a "root". So he blurted out the name of the herb: Ge Root.