What does kapok do and how to use it

Medicinal value. Kapok efficacy: It has the function of clearing away heat and dampness, and relieving heat. The bark has the function of dispelling wind and dampness, invigorating blood and reducing swelling. The root has the function of loose kapok (Fig. 1) to relieve pain.

In early spring, it is the season when kapok is in full bloom, and kapok is also called hero flower, it not only grows beautifully, but also has a wide range of uses and high medicinal value.

There is a saying in Guangdong that when kapok opens, winter will not come again, which means that as long as you see kapok open, warm spring will come. In early spring in February, it is the day when the kapok blooms, and in some places where there are kapok trees planted in our town, brilliant flowers have bloomed one after another.

In addition to its high ornamental value, kapok's flowers, bark and roots all have medicinal value. Cooking dried kapok into porridge or soup can detoxify, clear heat, drive away cold and dampness; Kapok skin boiled water also has the effects of clearing heat, diuretic, detoxifying, etc., and has significant curative effects on chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, diarrhea, dysentery, etc.

In addition, the use of kapok is also very wide, its stamens are very good fabric materials, the ancient book records that "the kapok tree is two or three zhang high, cut like paulownia wood, February and March flowers are both grateful, the core is cotton." They weave it as a blanket, white as snow, and extremely warm. The soft wood of kapok can be used to make packaging boards, match stems, wooden boats, barrels and basins, etc., and it is also a raw material for papermaking.

This paragraph] Chinese herbal remedies.

1. Treatment of dysentery: 15 grams of kapok, honeysuckle, and anchovy grass, decoction in water.

2. Treatment of red and white dysentery: 15-30 grams of kapok and tea leaves, decoction in water. Kapok (Figure 2).

3. Treatment of damp and hot dysentery: 15 grams of kapok, 12 grams of fishy wind and blood rain grass, 30 grams of amaranth head, decoction in water.

4. Treatment of women's intramenstrual wind: 60 grams of the second layer of kapok root, 30 grams of safflower lice mother head root, decoction and wine service.

5. Treatment of lung cancer and intestinal cancer: 15-30 grams of kapok root, 3 bowls of water to fry most of the bowl warmly.

6. Treatment of stomach pain: 30 grams of kapok root or bark, 6 grams of thorns, decoction in water.

7. Blood after stool: 30 grams of kapok bark, 90 grams of pork red meat, and soup service.

8. Treatment of paralysis: 30 grams of kapok root, decoction in water.

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The role of kapok: the flowers, bark and roots of kapok all have a medicinal bridge ** value. Kapok is abundant in South China, and many people use the fallen kapok to make soup and porridge after drying, which can detoxify, clear heat, drive away cold and dampness.

Kapok skin boiled water also has the effects of clearing heat, diuretic, detoxifying, etc., and has significant curative effects on chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, diarrhea, dysentery, etc. The bark of kapok is used as tung bark in Guangdong as medicine, and it is called tung bark in Guangdong. Bitter taste, flat nature, function to dispel rheumatism, through the meridians, insecticide.

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Fresh kapok can be used as an ingredient, and dried can be used as a medicinal herb. In spring, the humidity is heavy, and eating fresh kapok soup has the effect of dehumidifying. In addition, kapok can be used as a medicinal herb after drying Tanxiaolu.

The kapok is strung with a rope and hung upside down on the balcony to dry, and then it can be used to boil water to make tea, which also has the effect of dehumidifying and relieving the spleen.

Kapok has the effect of clearing heat and dampness, and can remove dampness and toxin, regulate the stomach and intestines, clear heat and detoxify.

Kapok can be used to cook porridge and soup, and has a certain value in terms of food.

1. Kapok tangerine peel porridge. Efficacy: Strengthen the spleen and dispel dampness, cool blood and stop bleeding, moisten the lungs and relieve cough.

2. Kapok three-flower drink. Efficacy: Clears away heat and detoxification, cools blood and stops dysentery.

3. Crucian carp soup. Efficacy: Strengthen the spleen and stomach, clear away heat and dampness, cool blood and stop bleeding.

4. Kapok shrimp tofu. Efficacy: Clears away heat and dampness, relieves depression and relieves annoyance. The isoflavones in tofu also have antioxidant and anti-aging effects.

5. Kapok mushrooms. Efficacy: Clears away heat and cools blood, strengthens spleen.

6. Kapok soup. Efficacy: Dispel dampness and improve water, strengthen the spleen and soothe the liver.

The flowers of the kapok tree can be eaten, and the kapok seeds can be used to make pillows.