What are the uses and benefits of the green plant kudzu root?
Kudzu root contains a large amount of substances beneficial to the human body. Besides purifying the air, it can also have therapeutic effects. Let us take a look together at the benefits and uses of kudzu root.
Kudzu root has the effect of "harmonizing hundreds of medicines and serving as a chief tonic," and has long been praised as "Asian ginseng," "plant gold," and "longevity powder." Legend has it that Peng Zu "did not eat the food of ordinary mortals," but he could not go without kudzu root, taking kudzu root as the root of life itself.
It is said that during the Green Forest Uprising at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, plague raged in the Green Forest mountains, and many insurgents died of illness. The army physician offered a plan to the rebel leaders Wang Kuang and Wang Feng: dig up kudzu root to serve as military rations, eaten raw or boiled at all three meals a day, and after seven days all the officers and soldiers recovered. This legend may contain some exaggeration, but there is certainly no problem with using kudzu root to stave off hunger. This is because kudzu root contains a large amount of starch; the starch content of dried kudzu root can reach 35%-40%, and fresh kudzu root also contains about 20%. After kudzu root is ground into powder, the starch content can reach as high as 76%. Besides being able to serve as food, what is even more important about kudzu root is its medicinal value.
First, it can be used for externally contracted wind-cold. When one has a cold, there will be symptoms such as aversion to cold, intolerance of wind, fever, aching bones and muscles, headache, and absence of sweating. Kudzu root can relieve muscle tension, induce sweating, and reduce fever. Used together with cassia twig, ephedra, and white peony root, it can achieve even better results. The "Treatise on Cold Damage" by Zhang Zhongjing of the Han Dynasty records: "For taiyang disease, with stiffness of the neck and back, absence of sweating, and aversion to wind, Kudzu Root Decoction governs it." This famous formula is still an important formula for releasing the exterior today.
Kudzu root has the effect of improving blood circulation in the brain, and has a relatively good relieving effect on symptoms such as headache, dizziness, tinnitus, and soreness of the waist and legs caused by high blood pressure. The newly developed bottled kudzu root tea is a food-grade beverage that has undergone effective extraction through high-tech methods while retaining its active ingredients. Kudzu root is the root of kudzu, a vine plant, and mostly grows in wild grass thickets and deep in the soil. Because it absorbs the essence of the earth, its taste is clean, sweet, and refreshing, with a unique style.
Kudzu root has the effect of improving blood circulation in the brain. Kudzu root tea has effects such as clearing heat, breaking down alcohol, sobering up and strengthening the stomach, and relieving alcohol and protecting the liver. It has obvious effects on lowering blood lipids, blood pressure, and blood sugar, and on assisting in the treatment of coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, and neurogenic headache. Drinking it before alcohol can greatly increase alcohol tolerance, and drinking it after alcohol can promote the rapid breakdown and excretion of alcohol. If it is brewed as a conventional beverage and drunk over a long period, it can lower blood lipids, lower blood sugar, lower blood pressure, and nourish the liver and protect the stomach. It has a relatively good relieving effect on symptoms such as headache, dizziness, tinnitus, and soreness of the waist and legs caused by high blood pressure. Regular drinking of kudzu root tea has an obvious therapeutic effect on treating high blood pressure. The preparation method is to wash kudzu root and cut it into thin slices, 30 grams per day, add water, boil, and drink it as tea.
The uses and benefits of kudzu root
1. Antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and immune effects
Kudzu root and Kudzu Root, Scutellaria, and Coptis Decoction have an obvious antipyretic effect on experimental fever, and an obvious anti-inflammatory effect on experimental foot swelling. In in vivo experiments, Kudzu Root, Scutellaria, and Coptis Decoction can inhibit the death of mice caused by pneumococcus and Shigella. Kudzu Root Decoction can obviously enhance the phagocytic function of mouse macrophages and has an anti-type I allergic reaction effect.
2. Effects on the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems
Total kudzu flavonoids and puerarin can obviously dilate the coronary arteries, possibly through a direct relaxing effect on vascular smooth muscle. Total kudzu flavonoids and puerarin can reduce oxygen consumption in normal myocardium and in myocardial infarction areas, and have the effect of enhancing the myocardium's tolerance to ischemia. Kudzu daidzein has an anti-arrhythmic effect, and Kudzu Root, Scutellaria, and Coptis Decoction has a counteracting effect on experimental ventricular premature beats in animals. Total kudzu flavonoids can slow the heart rate and increase stroke volume. Puerarin is a beta-receptor blocker and has an obvious blood pressure-lowering effect. Puerarin has an obvious improving effect on blood flow in peripheral microvessels and cerebrovascular disorders, reducing vascular resistance and increasing blood flow.
3. Antispasmodic effect
Kudzu flavonoids, Kudzu Root Decoction, and Kudzu Root, Scutellaria, and Coptis Decoction can counteract histamine and acetylcholine on the intestines and have a papaverine-like antispasmodic effect. They also have an inhibitory effect on the contraction of bronchial smooth muscle and intestinal smooth muscle.
4. Anticoagulant effect
Kudzu Root Decoction has an obvious anti-thrombotic effect and a significant inhibitory effect on platelet aggregation. Puerarin can slow the metabolism of sugars and amino acids in the inner vessel wall, relatively reduce collagen fibers, and is beneficial for preventing and treating atherosclerosis, platelet adhesion, and thrombus formation.
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collagen fibers are relatively reduced, which is beneficial for preventing and treating atherosclerosis, platelet adhesion, and thrombus formation.The above is the entire content of the uses and benefits of the green plant kudzu root that I have summarized for everyone. I hope this article can help everyone. Please also continue to follow us.