Pueraria lobata has extremely high health care value, and its application as a medicine is also extensive, but its main functions are as follows.
1, Radix Puerariae can disperse exterior evils.
According to Yan Hui in Materia Medica, Radix Puerariae can best "cool wind and cold, purify exterior evils and relieve muscle heat". Pueraria lobata is effective for diseases caused by exogenous wind-cold or exogenous wind-heat.
In fact, the exterior syndrome mentioned by the ancients is similar to the cold and fever we are talking about now, which means that if you eat Pueraria lobata regularly, you can effectively prevent and alleviate diseases such as colds.
2. Pueraria lobata can relieve troubles by promoting fluid production.
Pueraria is sweet, and soaking in water can help people quench their thirst. There is a record in Materia Medica: "Pueraria lobata is the medicine for those who are tired and thirsty." In addition, some medical books say that Pueraria lobata has a good effect of "quenching thirst", and diabetes mentioned by the ancients is similar to hyperglycemia often said in modern times.
Drinking Pueraria lobata water can alleviate the evil of dryness and heat in our body, or the heart heat, dry mouth and thirst caused by summer heat, and diabetes caused by hyperglycemia.
3. Pueraria lobata can strengthen the spleen and stomach.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Pueraria lobata has the effect of clearing yang in the body, and its medicine can stimulate the spleen and stomach to clear yang, thus strengthening the spleen and stomach and stopping diarrhea.
When the body is weak in clearing yang, the spleen and stomach are weak, or diarrhea and dysentery occur due to damp-heat stagnation in the spleen and stomach, using pueraria lobata to make tea and cook porridge can also play a certain role in alleviating it.
4. Modern pharmacological research on the efficacy of Pueraria lobata.
Modern medical research has found that pueraria lobata contains a lot of flavonoids, coumarins and other components, and these effective chemical components are of great help to people's health.
For example, puerarin in pueraria lobata can inhibit platelet aggregation, prevent atherosclerosis and lower blood pressure; The total flavonoids of pueraria lobata also has certain effects of dilating blood vessels, improving cerebral circulation and reducing myocardial oxygen consumption. In addition, Pueraria lobata also has certain functions of protecting liver and kidney function, resisting cell aging and antioxidation, and regulating blood sugar and blood lipid in the body.
From this point of view, it is beneficial to people's health to use Pueraria lobata frequently in life.