Pueraria lobata is the tuber root of the vine Pueraria kudzu, the stem is sparsely covered with brown long hard hairs, it is a common vegetable in some provinces and regions of southern China, its taste is sweet and cool, and it is often used as a soup. In fact, kudzu is not only a food, but also a kind of Chinese medicinal material, and some people even call it "Asian ginseng". Pueraria lobata has a long history of medicine, and the "Shennong's Materia Medica" lists it in the middle grade, saying that "the main thirst, body heat, vomiting, paralysis, yin qi, and detoxification", which has a great influence on the application of kudzu by later generations of doctors. In addition to inheriting the experience of predecessors, the modern application of Pueraria lobata has expanded the original efficacy and scope of treatment through research and practice. Especially in the coronary heart disease, angina, cerebral thrombosis and other heart and cerebrovascular diseases show a good prospect, today to talk about kudzu.
Chinese medicine
The traditional Chinese medicine Pueraria lobata is the dried root of the leguminous plant Pueraria pueraria or Gankua vine. The former is commonly known as "wild kudzu", and the latter is commonly known as "pink kudzu". Kudzu is mainly produced in Henan, Hunan, Zhejiang, and Sichuan; Ganger vine is mainly produced in Guangxi and Guangdong. Wild kudzu is dug in autumn and winter, mostly cut into thick slices or small pieces while fresh, and dried; Gangera vine is dug in autumn and winter, the outer skin is removed, slightly dried, cut in half or cut into thick pieces obliquely, and dried. Pueraria kudzu is better if it is loose and fibrous in section; Pueraria pueraria is large, solid, white, powdery, and less fiber. Use raw or simmered.
This product is sweet, pungent and cool. Return to the spleen, stomach, and lung meridians. It has the effects of relieving muscle and reducing fever, quenching thirst, diaphragm, rising yang and stopping diarrhea, activating meridians and channels, and detoxifying alcohol.
Note: The toxic side effects of this product are not obvious, and in ancient times, kudzu root was also "steamed". or "cut into the boiled tea to treat the guests". However, some doctors believe that it should be used with caution. For example, the Ming Dynasty's "Materia Medica": "cold sex, easy to vomit, people with cold stomach should be cautious"; Qing Dynasty "Materia Medica": "The summer moon is full of sweat and taboo". Attention should also be paid to clinical evidence.
Pueraria lobata can be used as medicine fresh (called raw kudzu in ancient formulas), and it can be sliced and dried before being used in medicine. In order to show the difference, the Tang Dynasty's "Treatise on Medicinal Properties" called the latter Gankudzu. The name of Gan Ge was mostly used in medical prescriptions after the Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the kudzu root was called Gange, and the "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" was called "sweet and bitter, and bitter and bitter". Pueraria peduncularis Grah., a plant of the same genus as Pueraria peduncularis Grah, is bitter and unwilling, poisonous, and generally not used for medicinal purposes.
Bupleurum, cimicifuga, kudzu
Bupleurum chinensis, cimicifuga, and kudzu can all be published and ascended, and can be used to treat wind, heat, cold, fever, headache, and Qingyang does not rise. Among them: Bupleurum chinensis and cimicifuga can both lift the yang and sag, and treat qi deficiency and sagging, eating less loose stools, prolapse of the anus for a long time, stomach prolapse, kidney prolapse, uterine prolapse and other organ prolapse; Cimicifuga and Pueraria lobata can also penetrate the rash, and are commonly used to treat measles at the beginning and poor penetration. However, Bupleurum mainly promotes the qi of the liver and gallbladder, which is good at evacuating the evil of Shaoyang and half of the surface and half of the inside, reducing fever, soothing the liver and relieving depression, and is an important medicine for the treatment of Shaoyang syndrome. It is also often used for typhoid fever in Shaoyang, cold and heat, chest and flank bitterness, bitter mouth and dry throat, dizziness; cold and fever; Symptoms such as liver stagnation, chest and flank swelling and pain, menstrual irregularities, and dysmenorrhea. Cimicifuga mainly promotes the spleen and stomach and clears the yang qi, and its lifting (lifting the sun) is stronger than that of Bupleurum chinensis, and is good at clearing heat and detoxifying, and is often used for a variety of heat poison syndromes. Pueraria lobata mainly promotes the spleen and stomach and clears yang qi to achieve the function of quenching thirst and diarrhea, and is often used for fever, polydipsia, yin deficiency and thirst; Fever, diarrhea, diarrhea, spleen deficiency and diarrhea. At the same time, Pueraria lobata muscle decelerates fever, and can be used for external symptoms, such as fever and chills, headache without sweating, and strong pain in the neck and back, regardless of wind chill and wind heat; And kudzu can activate the meridians, detoxify alcohol, and can also be used to treat dizziness and headache, stroke hemiplegia, chest paralysis and heartache, and alcohol poisoning.
"Materia Medica"
Cheng Chat Clouds: Materia Medica clouds can be light, and ephedra and kudzu are also genera. It is true to the stroke, so two things are added to the cinnamon soup.
Jie Guyun: Cure spleen and stomach deficiency and thirst, relieve alcohol and poison, and pass the Foot Yang Ming Sutra. "Indications" cloud: cold nature, sweet taste, thin smell, light body, floating and slightly decreasing, yang and yin. There are four uses: one to quench thirst, two to relieve hangover, three to diverge the evil, and four to diverge the sores in children. Yiyang Shengjin, do not take more, for fear of damaging the stomach.
Dongyuan Yun: Pueraria lobata is sweet, pure yang, quenches thirst, heats the body, detoxifies all kinds of poisons, treats typhoid fever and stroke headaches, dissolves muscles and sweats, and opens the stomach. Youyun: Dry Ge Qi Qi is frivolous, encouraging stomach qi to go up, generating jin liquid and relieving muscle heat.
Haizang Clouds: Into the Yang Ming Sutra. Dongyuan Yun: The sun certificate of the world or the beginning of the illness, and those who take kudzu root cohosh soup, are the sun, not only the scriptures, but also the evil qi of the sun into the yangming, which cannot be solved. Zhu Fengyiyun: If the headache is broken, even the white soup with green onions is the master. The second time is endless, the kudzu green onion white soup is the main one. It is afraid that the sun will flow into Yangming, so it is used to cut off the way of the sun into Yangming, not the sun medicine. Therefore, Zhongjing treats the sun and Yangming, and adds ephedra and kudzu to the cinnamon soup; There is also Pueraria Scutellaria Scutellaria and Coptis Muscle Relief Soup, which is known to be Pueraria Root Non-Sun Medicine, that is, Yang Ming Medicine. Easy to get old and cloudy: The sun is first sick, before the sun is bright, and those who have headaches should not take kudzu root soup lightly. If you obey it, it is a thief. If you have frontal pain, you can take it. Kudzu root soup is the elixir of Yang Ming since stroke.
Commentary on the Materia Medica
Ge Gen Qi Ping, the golden Qi of the Heavenly Autumn Level, start with the Taiyin Lung Meridian; The taste is sweet and spicy, non-toxic, and the taste of the golden soil is obtained, and it enters the dry golden stomach of the Yang Ming meridian. The smell is light and clear, and the yang is also.
Its main thirst-quenching person, the kudzu root is sweet and sweet, and the stomach qi rises, and the qi is full of liquid. Its main body is hot, the kudzu is flat, the flat is the autumn gas, and the autumn gas can solve the heat. If the spleen is damp and hot, it will vomit; Kudzu root is bitter and sweet, rising stomach yang, stomach yang agitation, then dampness and heat descend and vomiting stops. All paralysis arises from the lack of circulation of qi and blood; Kudzu root is sweet and scattered, the qi and blood are alive, and the paralysis is self-healing. The yin is from the yang, the yin of life, the spleen is the origin, the spleen and the stomach are combined, the bitterness and sweetness enter the stomach, the stomach is agitated, and the yang is healthy, the spleen and yin also rise; The sweet one is the taste of the earth, and the peaceful one is the harmony of the gold, so the detoxification is also.
Ge Gu is flat and sweet, and it enters the stomach of Yang Ming, the large intestine of Yang Ming, and the Yin and Yang. The yang in the yin is less yang, light and up, and can lead to the rise of stomach qi, so the main dysentery is more than ten years old, and the evidence of yang trapping is also.
Recipe: Pueraria lobata with fragrant herbs, raw land, decoction, can prevent fever. With white peony, licorice, yam, white cocoon, and burnt rice, it cures dysentery and blood. Kudzu is a blind treatment for poisoning.
Modern pharmacology
Traditional Chinese medicine "Pueraria lobata decoction, Pueraria lobata ethanol extract, puerarin and so on have antipyretic effects on experimental fever model animals. Pueraria lobata decoction, alcohol infusion, total flavonoids, daidzein, and puerarin can all fight acute myocardial ischemia caused by posterior pituitary. The total flavonoids of Pueraria lobata can dilate coronary and cerebrovascular vessels, increase coronary blood flow and cerebral blood flow, reduce myocardial oxygen consumption, and increase oxygen supply. Pueraria lobata can directly dilate blood vessels, reduce peripheral resistance, and have a significant antihypertensive effect, which can better alleviate the symptoms of "tightness" in hypertensive patients. Puerarin can improve microcirculation, increase local microblood flow, and inhibit platelet aggregation. The different components contained in Pueraria lobata have the effect of contracting and relaxing visceral smooth muscles, respectively. It also has the effects of lowering blood sugar, lowering blood lipids, and antioxidants.
Kudzu
The traditional Chinese medicine Kudzu flower is the unopened flower bud of the leguminous plant wild kudzu or sweet kudzu vine. Sweet and flat. Functions to detoxify alcohol, awaken the spleen and stomach. It is mainly used for excessive drinking, headache, dizziness, polydipsia, vomiting, chest fullness and other symptoms.
Time: 2024