Kudzu potato can treat cough, phlegm, swelling, detoxification, treatment of chronic bronchitis and ulcers in the elderly. "Nanning Pharmaceutical Journal": detoxification, insecticide, treatment of venomous sores. Guangxi medicinal plant list: detoxification, pus, swelling. Internal use: decoction, 3-5 qian (2 doses daily).

Morphological features of kudzu potato: erect semi-shrubby herb, 30-50 cm tall. With fusiform tuberous roots. The stem is cylindrical, covered with tightly adhering hairs when young. Leaves alternate, ternate-complex, petiole very short.

The stipules are ovate-lanceolate, 5-8 mm long, sparsely hairy and longitudinally veined; the stipules are linearly tapered; the leaflets are leathery, with oblong blades, the apical one 7-9 cm or longer, 2-5.5 cm wide, the apex obtuse with a small acute point, the base obtuse, and the lateral leaflets smaller, glabrous above, and densely covered with tightly adhering, silvery-gray filiform hairs below.

Flowers in pairs in leaf axils or in very short racemes; bracts ovate, bracteoles ovate-oblong, both sparsely hirsute and striate; calyx membranous-tubular, 15-18 mm long, 5-lobed, sparsely hirsute, lobes lanceolate, 7-9 mm long.

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. p>Kudzu contains 12% of flavonoids, such as Puerarin, soybean flavonoid glycosides, arachidonin and other nutrients, as well as proteins, amino acids, sugar, and the human body essential iron, calcium, copper, selenium, and other minerals, is the young and the old, the valuable tonic, with a "thousand years of ginseng," the reputation of the.

The kudzu potato has a butterfly-shaped corolla, white or yellowish, about 3 cm, the flag petals outside the coarse hairs; stamens 10; the ovary with a stalk, there are many ovules, the style flattened, inwardly curved, hairy along the inner surface.

Pods linear-oblong, 4-7 cm long, shortly stalked. Flowering in June-July, fruiting in August-October.

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