What are the benefits and effects of Yangque flower?

Yangque flower is the flower of Caragana yunnanensis, a plant of the genus Caragana in the Fabaceae family, distributed in Sichuan, Yunnan and Tibet, China, and other places. The flowers and roots of the congeneric plant Caragana erinacea are also used medicinally, with the same functions as Yangque flower. As a medicine it has the effect of tonifying the kidney and strengthening the spleen, and has a therapeutic effect on conditions such as kidney-deficiency tinnitus, dizziness and blurred vision, headache, pulmonary tuberculosis cough, and infantile malnutrition. Let us take a look together at the benefits and effects of Yangque flower!

The medicinal effects of Yangque flower

[Nature and flavor] Sweet in taste, slightly bitter, neutral in nature.

[Meridian entry] Kidney meridian.

[Effects] Tonifies the kidney and strengthens the spleen; mainly treats kidney-deficiency tinnitus, dizziness and blurred vision, headache, pulmonary tuberculosis cough, and infantile malnutrition.

Related discussions on Yangque flower

1. "Gangmu Shiyi": Treats traumatic injuries and cough. Warms the sinews and bones, treats gout; its nature can expel wind and invigorate blood, and also unblocks the blood vessels and disperses clotted toxins.

2. "Zhiwu Ming Shi Tu Kao": Remove the skin, stew with pig heart, eliminates tuberculosis. Tonifies the sinews and bones.

3. "Kaibao Bencao": Clears the lungs and benefits the spleen. Treats dizziness, cough, asthma, the five consumptions and seven injuries, and epistaxis.

4. "Guizhou Folk Prescriptions and Medicines": Unblocks menstruation and promotes urination. Treats strangury and leukorrhea. It can also promote lactation.

The pharmacological effects of Yangque flower

Intraperitoneal injection of the alcohol extract of Yangque flower at 90 g of crude drug/kg can cause a prolonged drop in blood pressure in anesthetized cats. According to a preliminary analysis, the hypotensive principle is believed to be related to the nerve center. Intraperitoneal injection in mice gave a median lethal dose of 309.7 g/kg. The ether extract also has a hypotensive effect.

Medicinal selected formulas of Yangque flower

1. To treat leukorrhea due to weakness of the spleen and kidney, and wind generated by blood deficiency from consumptive injury, and damp-heat itching: Stew the root bark of Jinqui flower with chicken and take it.

2. To treat hypertension: Take Tu Huangqi, wash it clean, remove the outer skin, slice it, and use it fresh or dried, 8 qian to 1 liang per day; decoct in water and take the juice, add an appropriate amount of white sugar, and take it in three divided doses.

3. To treat irregular menstruation in women: Jinqui root and Dangshen. Decoct in water and take.

4. To treat leukorrhea in women: Jinqui root and brown sugar. Decoct in water and take.

5. Jinqui root bark, white cockscomb flower, and Niuxi. Stir-fry together with vinegar, then add water and vinegar, half each, decoct into half a small bowl of soup, and take it in three divided doses a day.

6. To treat red flooding: Jinqui root bark and Cilao Bao root. Steam with sweet rice wine and take.

7. To treat joint wind pain: 1 to 2 liang of Jinqui root and one pig trotter. Stew with half wine and half water and take.

8. To treat traumatic injuries: Pound Jinqui root to extract the juice and take it mixed with wine; apply the residue to the injured area.