What is Sophora japonica? It actually has such an effect

Sophora japonica is a leguminous plant, also known as Sophora fruit, Sophora seed, Sophora bean, Tiandou, and Sophora liandou. It is mainly used to treat intestinal heat and bloody stool, hemorrhoidal swelling and bleeding, liver heat and headache, dizziness and red eyes. However, people with weak spleen and stomach, poor appetite and loose stools, and pregnant women should be cautious when taking Sophora japonica.

1. The efficacy of Sophora japonica:

Sophora japonica is also called Sophora fruit, Sophora seed, Sophora bean, Tiandou, and Sophora liandou. Sophora japonica has the effects of clearing heat and purging fire, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Sophora japonica is mainly used to treat intestinal heat, bloody stool, hemorrhoidal swelling and bleeding, liver heat, headache, dizziness and red eyes. People with weak spleen and stomach, poor appetite and loose stools, and pregnant women should be cautious when taking Sophora japonica beans.

Other names: Sophora japonica, Sophora japonica seeds, Sophora japonica beans, Sophora japonica seeds, Sophora japonica beans

Honey-cooked Sophora japonica horn: First, place the Sophora japonica horn in a pot and fry over low heat until it swells. Then spray in honey water and fry until the skin is shiny and no longer sticky. Take out and let cool. (For every 100 jin of Sophora japonica horn, use 5 jin of refined honey) Sophora japonica horn charcoal: Put the clean Sophora japonica horn in a pot, stir-fry over low heat until the surface is charred black and the inside is dark yellow, then take out and let cool.

Nature and flavor: cold; bitter.

Meridians: Liver and Large Intestine Meridians?

Efficacy: Clears away heat and purges fire, cools blood and stops bleeding.

Indications: Used for intestinal heat, bloody stool, hemorrhoidal swelling and bleeding, liver heat, headache, dizziness and red eyes.

Dosage and Administration: For oral administration: decoct in water, 6-15g; or make into pills or powder; or mash the young horns into juice. For external use: take appropriate amount, decoct in water for washing; or grind into powder and mix with oil for application.

2. The role of Sophora japonica:

Sophora japonica tea is sweet and delicious with a long aftertaste. This tea has the effects of softening blood vessels, lowering blood pressure, lowering cholesterol, relieving wind and heat, moistening the large intestine, cooling blood and relieving constipation. People who suffer from chest tightness, red and tearful eyes, dizziness, and hemorrhoid bleeding can benefit from drinking this tea regularly. It is particularly effective in lowering triglycerides, preventing and treating hemorrhoids.

Clears away heat, moistens the liver, cools blood and stops bleeding. It is used to treat intestinal bloody diarrhea, hemorrhoidal bleeding, metrorrhagia, hematuria, bloody dysentery, chest tightness, dizziness, and itchy genital sores. Clears the fire in the heart, lungs, spleen, liver and large intestine. Treats heat and pain in the heart and abdomen. Nourishes the liver and blood. It can treat malnutrition, carbuncle, bloody diarrhea, and metrorrhagia; the kernel in its horn can nourish the brain and kill insects.

1. Sophora japonica seed is used to treat hematuria: 3 qian of Sophora japonica seed, 2 qian each of Plantago, Poria, and Akebia, and 7 fen of licorice. Decoction in water. (Yang's Simple Prescriptions)

2. Sophora japonica is used to treat metrorrhagia and leucorrhea in women: 8 liang of Sophora japonica seeds (washed with wine and fried), 4 liang of Salvia miltiorrhiza (mixed with vinegar and fried), 2 liang of Cyperus rotundus (soaked in urine of children and fried). Grind them into powder, add malt sugar and make into pills the size of walnuts. Carve five cents of it every morning and take it with rice soup. (The Treasure of Chen's Family)

3. Sophora japonica pods can treat five kinds of intestinal bleeding (blood before defecation is called external hemorrhoids, blood after defecation is called internal hemorrhoids, inability of large intestine to contract is called rectal prolapse, lumps on all sides of the anus like milk are called hemorrhoids, and holes on the head are called fistulas, all of which can be cured): one catty of Sophora japonica pods (fried with branches and stems removed), Sanguisorba officinalis, Chinese angelica (soaked in wine overnight and roasted), Saposhnikovia divaricata (remove the stalk), and Scutellaria baicalensis. Citrus aurantium (remove the pulp and stir-fry with bran) half a pound each. Grind the above ingredients into powder, and make into pills with wine paste, as big as sycamore seeds. Take 30 pills each time, with rice wine, at any time. (Huaijiao Pills from Bureau Prescriptions)