In fact, there are many records about the medicinal value of boat-fruited Sterculia in ancient medical books in China. For example, in Materia Medica Justice, it is said that boat-fruited Sterculia? Good at dispersing lung and benefiting throat? As a medicine, it has the functions of opening the voice to stop dumb, clearing throat and resolving phlegm. It can be seen that the ancients have realized the efficacy of boat-fruited Sterculia in dispersing lung qi and relieving sore throat. In modern times, people think that the benefits of boat-fruited Sterculia to our voice mainly include the following points through general experience and scientific research.
1, boat-fruited Sterculia is sweet, cold and moist, and has the functions of moistening throat, relieving sore throat and protecting throat.
Boat-fruited Sterculia is sweet and cold, and it has a good effect on moistening our throat when we make tea. Especially when we have heat in our body and get stuck in our throat, we often have sore throat, hoarse voice and even aphonia. At this time, it is very appropriate to make tea with boat-fruited Sterculia.
Or sometimes voice problems caused by excessive use of voice can also be alleviated by making tea from boat-fruited Sterculia. For example, talking loudly and singing for a long time cause a sore throat. Boat-fruited Sterculia tea can effectively moisten the throat, relieve sore throat and protect the throat.
2, Boat-fruited Sterculia spreads the lungs and clears away heat, which has the effect of moistening the lungs, relieving cough and protecting scorpions.
Chinese medicine thinks? Lung essence and dirty, the main declaration? And it is most afraid of the evil of heat. If the evil of dryness and heat accumulates in the lungs, it will often cause people to cough because of lung dryness and cough because of hot phlegm, and cough and asthma are not only very harmful to our throat.
For example, when we often cough, we will obviously feel a sore throat, which will cause many diseases in the throat after a long time. Drinking boat-fruited Sterculia tea can effectively promote lung heat and clear lung dryness. When the evil of dryness and heat in the lungs is dispersed, the throat will naturally be unobstructed and the sputum nucleus will be dissolved. Therefore, making tea and drinking boat-fruited Sterculia also has the functions of dispersing lung heat, moistening lung and relieving cough, relieving sore throat and protecting throat.
3, the boat-fruited Sterculia is sweet and moist, and it has the effect of moistening the throat.
Boat-fruited Sterculia is sweet and cold in nature, and can also play a very good role in moistening dryness and promoting fluid production, and can also alleviate the damage of body fluid caused by dry mouth, throat fever, dry throat and fever.
Boat-fruited Sterculia combined with mulberry bark, Ophiopogon japonicus, Radix Rehmanniae and Radix Scrophulariae is often used in Chinese medicine to alleviate this situation, and the effect is good. As far as our daily health is concerned, simply drinking boat-fruited Sterculia tea can also play a role in promoting fluid production, eliminating dryness and protecting the voice.
However, although boat-fruited Sterculia has a good function of protecting the throat, it is not suitable for long-term use because of its cold medicinal properties. When you have a sore throat every day, you can drink 2-3 pieces of tea every time, and you can stop using it when your condition recovers. In addition, if you are weak and afraid of cold, diarrhea and irregular stool often occur, and it is not appropriate to make tea with boat-fruited Sterculia.