Is drinking Pueraria water before drinking useful for sobering up?

Pueraria root is the root of the wild legume plant Pueraria, and it has a wide range of uses. It is a substance that can be used both as food and as medicine. For edible purposes, Pueraria root can be used to make porridge, stew chicken with Pueraria root, stir-fry meat with Pueraria root, etc. For medicinal purposes, Pueraria root can be soaked in water, decocted with Pueraria root, etc. Drinking Pueraria root soaked in water can promote the body's metabolism, bile secretion, etc. So is drinking Pueraria root water before drinking useful for sobering up?

First of all, as to the question of whether drinking Pueraria root water before drinking can help you sober up, the answer is yes. Pueraria root can promote bile secretion, promote metabolism, strengthen the liver's detoxification function, prevent alcohol damage to the liver, and strengthen the liver and gallbladder cells' own immune function, so Pueraria root soaked in water can help you sober up.

But it doesn't mean you can't get drunk, it just increases your alcohol tolerance. Pueraria flower is more effective, it is mainly used to sober up. Pueraria root is rich in hormones, so long-term and large-scale consumption is not recommended.

Effects of Pueraria lobata soaked in water:

1. Quench thirst and relieve diarrhea

Pueraria root is light, clear and dispersing, and its medicinal property is to raise the Yang Qi, stimulate the body's positive Qi to rise, and distribute the body fluids. It can promote the clearing of Yang energy in the spleen and stomach, quench thirst, and stop diarrhea. Therefore, it is often used to treat internal heat and thirst, measles with poor outbreaks, diarrhea, dysentery and other diseases.

2. Regulate body temperature

The invasion of viruses will cause abnormal activity of humoral immunity in the human body, and a large number of phagocytes will be active, which will generate a large amount of heat energy inside the body and form high temperature. The total flavonoids of Pueraria root have a long-lasting and obvious cooling effect on the increase in body temperature caused by toxins, and can effectively control body temperature. In clinical practice, Pueraria root has always been one of the main medicines for exogenous fever symptoms.

3. Lowers blood sugar

Adrenaline not only acts on muscles, but also on the pancreas, promoting the secretion of glucagon and increasing blood sugar. Puerarin has the effect of resisting adrenaline, can inhibit the secretion of glucagon to a certain extent, and has a certain blood sugar-lowering effect.

4. Dilate blood vessels

Pueraria total flavonoids and puerarin can improve myocardial oxygen metabolism and have a beneficial effect on myocardial metabolism. At the same time, they can dilate blood vessels, improve microcirculation, reduce vascular resistance, and increase blood flow. Therefore, they can be used to prevent and treat myocardial ischemia, myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, hypertension, arteriosclerosis and other diseases.

5. Improves Memory

The total flavonoids and alcohol extract of Pueraria root can increase the acetylcholine content in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus of rats, and reduce the activity of hippocampal acetylcholine transferase, counteracting the acquired memory disorder of rats induced by scopolamine. This shows that Pueraria root has a certain ability to improve learning and memory.