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What are the benefits and effects of morning glory seeds? A detailed guide

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This plant has roughly more than 60 varieties of flowers. Some have leaves with three lobes, and the flowers are medium-sized, borne singly or in threes in the leaf axils, in colors of clear blue, white, or magenta. If the leaves are more rounded, the plant's leaves take a heart shape, and its flowers are relatively small, white or magenta, just like the previous type. This plant likes to grow in shrubs in mountain fields or along village roads, prefers a mild climate, and loves sunlight, with ventilation that is just right.

I. Medicinal effects of the plant

1. It can treat cold-induced wandering pain, as well as symptoms of low back pain that make it hard to bend over or straighten up. You can use 3 liang of the plant's seeds after being fried, then 2 liang of fried Psoralea corylifolia, and 2 liang of Corydalis yanhusuo; grind these three herbs together into powder, then slowly simmer it with garlic into pills about the size of wutong seeds. Take about 30 pills each time, and swallow them with a soup made by boiling chopped scallion and salt; take the medicine before meals.

2. It can treat abdominal bloating with constipation and abdominal pain. You can use 3 qian of the top powder of morning glory seeds, 1 qian of myrrh and frankincense, 2 qian of pangolin scales, and 2 qian of rhubarb; add these medicines together and grind them into powder. Take 3 qian each time and wash the powder down with boiled water.

3. It can treat acute conjunctivitis, especially redness of the whites of the eyes. You can use an appropriate amount of morning glory seeds, grind them into powder, and mix them with a soup of scallion white into a paste to apply externally to the affected area.

4. It can treat abdominal bloating and difficult urination in children. You can grind 1 qian of morning glory seeds into powder and take it with water on an empty stomach.

5. It can treat edema. You can take an appropriate amount of morning glory seeds, grind them into powder, and drink it with water, preferably once a day.

II. Pharmacological applications

1. It can be used to move the bowels. The seeds of this plant contain a special chemical component with a very strong diarrheal effect. It can stimulate the stomach and intestines and then promote gastrointestinal peristalsis. Generally, diarrhea occurs about three hours after taking it. Moreover, it does not cause too drastic a change in blood sugar.

2. It helps with urination. A component in the seeds of this plant can accelerate the excretion of inulin.

Having said so much, everyone probably now knows roughly what effects the seeds of this plant have and how to take them. Among the seeds of this plant, there is a special component that has a great effect on constipation.

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