What are the efficacy and effects of golden buckwheat?
Golden buckwheat, also known as bitter buckwheat, wild bridge buckwheat, heaven buckwheat, etc., is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Fagopyrum in the Polygonaceae family. It is mainly produced in Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Hunan and other provinces. It is cool in nature and pungent and bitter in taste, and has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and strengthening the spleen and draining dampness. Now let us take a look at the efficacy and effects of golden buckwheat!
The medicinal efficacy of golden buckwheat
[Nature and taste]Sweet, astringent, slightly bitter in taste, cool in nature.
[Meridian tropism]Lung, liver, spleen, stomach, and large intestine meridians.
[Efficacy]Clearing heat and detoxifying, dispersing wind and resolving phlegm, promoting blood circulation and dispersing stasis, strengthening the spleen and draining dampness. It mainly treats sore throat, lung-heat cough, lung abscess with foul sputum, rheumatic arthralgia, pulmonary abscess, dysentery, unnamed swellings and toxin, traumatic injuries, muscle and bone aching pain, head wind, stomach pain, bacillary dysentery, leukorrhea and other conditions.
The pharmacological effects of golden buckwheat
1. Anti-cancer effect: Golden buckwheat has an anti-cancer effect, attributed to its efficacy in clearing heat and detoxifying and promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Modern medical research has found that the anti-cancer pharmacological effect of golden buckwheat is to obviously inhibit nucleic acid metabolism within cancer cells, thereby inhibiting the growth and proliferation of cancer cells, and to kill cancer cells, effectively inhibiting the development of cancer tumors. Golden buckwheat has a broad-spectrum anti-cancer effect in the treatment of malignant tumors such as lung cancer, cervical cancer, kidney cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, and stomach cancer.
2. Antibacterial effect: Golden buckwheat has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and the effect of the alcoholic preparation is greater than that of the aqueous preparation. It has also been reported that golden buckwheat and its separated fractions have no in vitro antibacterial effect. Intraperitoneal injection of 83 mg/kg of golden buckwheat extract at different times before infection had an obvious protective effect on mice with intraperitoneal Staphylococcus aureus infection, but administration at the same time as infection or after infection had no protective effect.
3. Enhancing immunity: Golden buckwheat has the effect of enhancing cellular immunity, has the effect of strengthening the phagocytic function of macrophages, can improve the ability of immune cells to clear pathogenic bacteria, inhibit external invasion, and play a role in resisting the occurrence of disease and assisting in the treatment of disease.
4. Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis: The effect of golden buckwheat in promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis also has a good effect on relieving pain caused by qi stagnation and blood stasis, and this effect of golden buckwheat also has a therapeutic effect on gynecological diseases caused by qi stagnation and blood stasis, such as breast hyperplasia, uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts and other diseases, with a good effect on relieving pain and eliminating masses.
5. Other effects: Intraperitoneal injection of 83 mg/kg of golden buckwheat extract can enhance the phagocytic function of mouse peritoneal macrophages, but the total number of macrophages was not seen to increase. Oral administration of golden buckwheat extract to rabbits with fever induced by triple vaccine has an antipyretic effect, and oral administration of golden buckwheat extract to mice has a mild antitussive effect.
Medicinal selected prescriptions of golden buckwheat
1. Golden buckwheat for nasopharyngeal cancer: Fresh wild buckwheat, fresh Stephania tetrandra, and fresh Achyranthes bidentata 30 grams each. Decoct in water and take. In addition, take rush pith, crush it, and hold it in the mouth, and apply mashed Sedum sarmentosum externally. In the prescription, golden buckwheat clears heat and detoxifies, promotes blood circulation and removes wind-dampness, and is the monarch drug.
2. Golden buckwheat for laryngeal cancer: Wild buckwheat, Paris polyphylla, and Duchesnea indica 15 grams each, Ludwigia prostrata 9 grams, Solanum nigrum and Solanum dulcamara 30 grams each, decoct in water and take, 1 dose per day. It can relieve difficulty in breathing, pain on swallowing, and so on, and neck masses and lymphoid tuberculosis gradually disappear.
3. Golden buckwheat can reduce swelling and astringe blood, used for swelling, pain and bleeding: For joint swelling, wild buckwheat 60 grams, decoct in water 3 times, and take after meals. For uterine bleeding, wild buckwheat 250 grams and seven slices, add 1250 milliliters of water, place in a pottery vessel and seal it, steam-cook over water for 3 hours, obtaining about 1000 milliliters of clear juice. Take 40 milliliters each time, 3 times a day.
4. Golden buckwheat for vocal cord cancer: Wild buckwheat, Salvia chinensis, and Duchesnea indica 15 grams each, Hedyotis chrysotricha and Ophiopogon japonicus 12 grams each, Solanum nigrum and Solanum lyratum 30 grams each, decoct in water 2 times, and take separately in the morning and evening. It can make the cancer tumor disappear and restore lost voice.
5. Golden buckwheat for rectal prolapse: Fresh heaven buckwheat and Sophora flavescens 300 grams each. Decoct in water, and while hot, fumigate the affected area. In the prescription, golden buckwheat clears heat and detoxifies and promotes blood circulation, and is the monarch drug.
6. Laryngeal cystic tumor: Wild buckwheat 60 grams, Spilanthes acmella, Prunella vulgaris, oyster shell, and Peristrophe japonica 30 grams each, Asparagus filicinus and Ophioglossum vulgatum and Ranunculus ternatus 15 grams each, decoct in water 3 times and take separately. It can relieve symptoms such as breathlessness and asthma, and the cystic mass disappears.
7. Golden buckwheat for amenorrhea: Fresh wild buckwheat leaves 90 grams (dried leaves 30 grams), mash them, mix with 4 eggs, fry them thoroughly with tea oil, add rice wine and boil together, and take orally. In the prescription, golden buckwheat promotes blood circulation and is the monarch drug.
8. Golden buckwheat for nasopharyngeal cancer: Fresh wild buckwheat, fresh Stephania tetrandra, and fresh Achyranthes bidentata 30 grams each, decoct in water and take. In addition, take rush pith, crush it, and hold it in the mouth, and at the same time apply an appropriate amount of mashed Sedum sarmentosum to the nose. Continuing medication for 2 months can reduce purulent and bloody secretions, and the cancer tumor gradually diminishes.