What are the effects and functions of kudzu flowers

Office workers may have a lot of social engagements at work, and drinking is inevitable. Long-term drinking is bound to cause great harm to the body, especially to the liver, and may even lead to diseases such as fatty liver or cirrhosis. Those friends who have long-term social engagements need to protect their bodies in some ways. Kudzu flowers can alleviate the damage of alcohol to the liver to a certain extent. At the same time, supplementing with more vitamin C will have a better effect. However, although kudzu flowers have a certain protective effect on the liver, friends who have a lot of social engagements should not drink without restraint.

1. Kudzu flower

The flowers of Kudzu vine have alternate tripterygium leaves with long petioles; the leaflets at the top are broadly elliptic or nearly round, with short acuminate tips, rounded or nearly broadly cuneate bases, and covered with long white stiff hairs on both sides; the leaflets on both sides are obliquely broadly ovate; the stipules are shield-shaped, elliptical, and the stipules are narrowly lanceolate.

2. Effects and functions of kudzu flower

Kudzu flower tea is a powerful hangover reliever, and also has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, protecting the liver, nourishing the skin, and tonifying the kidneys. In the field of traditional Chinese medicine, there is a saying that "Kudzu flowers will not make you drunk even if you drink a thousand cups". In short, kudzu flower is recorded in Shenlong Materia Medica, Medical Encyclopedia, Dongyi Baodian - Difficult Diseases, and Compendium of Materia Medica.

① For treating excessive drinking, vomiting and sputum, restlessness, chest and diaphragm congestion, trembling hands and feet, reduced appetite, and difficulty urinating: 1.5 grams of lotus peel (remove the pith), 2.5 grams of costus root, 7.5 grams each of tangerine peel (remove the white part), ginseng (remove the stem), Poria (remove the black skin), and white Poria, 10 grams each of Shenqu (fried until yellow), Alisma, dried ginger, and Atractylodes, 25 grams each of white cardamom seed, kudzu flower, and Amomum. Grind it into a very fine powder, weigh and mix evenly, take 15 grams each time, mixed with white soup. Once you sweat slightly, the alcoholism will be gone. (Gehua hangover-relieving soup from "Discussion on the Spleen and Stomach")

② Treats heat accumulation from drinking, toxic damage to the spleen and stomach, vomiting blood, fever, thirst, and red and scanty urine: 50 grams of kudzu flower, 10 grams of coptis root, 50 grams of talc (ground in water), and 25 grams of powder grass. Grind into fine powder, mix with water to make pills, take 5g each time with boiling water. (Gehua Qingre Pills from Southern Yunnan Materia Medica)?

Kudzu flower hangover-relieving soup: treats alcoholics’ disease.

3. Main Value

[ Collection ] Harvested in summer and autumn.

【 Nature and flavor and meridians 】Pungent, neutral. Enters the lung and stomach meridians

[ Functions and indications - the effects of bitter kudzu root ] Clearing away heat, relieving rash, promoting body fluid and quenching thirst, and sobering up

【 Selection 】

①To treat measles that has not yet fully developed: 50 cents each of Pueraria lobata and Solidago asiatica.

Take it in decoction.

② Treat vomiting blood: 50 qian to 1 shang of Pueraria root, 50 qian to 1 shang of Xuefei root, 50 qian to 1 shang of Wu Paeonia root and 50 qian to 1 shang of Sophora flavescens root.

Take with simmered water.

③Treat diabetes: 2 liang of bitter kudzu root and 1 liang of rhubarb root.

Take with simmered water.

④Treatment of white mouth sores: 5 grams each of fresh bitter kudzu root (burned into charcoal and ground into powder) and alum powder.

Mix well and apply to the affected area of ​​the mouth.

⑤ Never get drunk: Soak about 10 grams of kudzu flowers in hot water and drink it before or after drinking alcohol. The alcohol will lose its effect when it meets the water soaked with kudzu flowers, and it will be no different from boiled water.