What are the functions and effects of Kapok

Kapok is a very common plant in the southern region. Many friends who have seen kapok flowers think it is very beautiful. In addition to its beautiful appearance, kapok is also a common Chinese medicinal ingredient, which has the effects of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, moistening the lungs and relieving cough.

The efficacy of Kapok

Main Value

Edible value

Kapok and tangerine peel porridge: strengthens the spleen and removes dampness, cools blood and stops bleeding, moistens the lungs and relieves cough. Kapok Three Flower Drink: clears away heat and detoxifies, cools blood and stops dysentery. Kapok crucian carp soup: strengthens the spleen and stomach, clears away heat and dampness, cools blood and stops bleeding. Kapok shrimp tofu: clears away heat and dampness, relieves depression and eliminates restlessness. Kapok flowers have the function of clearing away heat and dampness, tofu can relieve fever and relieve restlessness, bamboo shoots can moisten the intestines. When simmered with shrimp, ham and chicken soup, it is not only fragrant and delicious, but also has the effects of clearing heat and dampness and cooling blood. The isoflavones in tofu also have antioxidant and anti-aging effects.

Kapok mushroom: clears heat, cools blood, and strengthens the spleen. Make delicious kapok soup: remove dampness, promote diuresis, strengthen the spleen and soothe the liver. Kapok is often used as a good food ingredient for removing dampness by the people of Guangdong. It not only has the effect of removing dampness, but is also mild and refreshing, and is most suitable for use in early spring.

Medicinal value

The flowers are 5 to 8 cm long, wrinkled when dry, and are in irregular lumps. Most of them do not have an ovary or pedicel. The root and stem extracts of kapok can be used as astringents, analgesics, etc. Its juice can be used to treat dysentery. Its root bark, stem bark and thorns can be ground into powder and made into ointment to treat acne. It is said that whenever the kapok flowers bloom, many old people and children in the village will pick up the fallen flowers and dry them. They can be used to make tea, stew soup, and use as medicine.