What's the use of kapok? I saw many aunts and mothers-in-law holding bamboo poles to pick …

Kapok Efficacy: It has the functions of clearing heat, promoting diuresis and relieving summer heat. Bark has the functions of expelling wind and removing dampness, promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling. The root has the analgesic effect of kapok (figure 1).

The early spring in February and March is also the flowering season of kapok. Kapok is also called hero flower. It is not only beautiful, but also widely used and has high medicinal value.

There is a saying in Guangdong that kapok blooms and winter never comes again, which means that as long as you see kapok blossom, warm spring will come. Early spring and February are the days when kapok blooms. In some places where there are kapok trees in our town, brilliant flowers have been in full bloom one after another. Seen from a distance, the orange-red color of a tree is particularly energetic.

Kapok not only has high ornamental value, but also has medicinal value in flowers, skins and roots. Dry cooking porridge or soup with kapok can detoxify, clear away heat, drive away cold and dehumidify; Boiled water with kapok bark also has the effects of clearing heat, diuresis and detoxification, and has obvious curative effect on chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, diarrhea and dysentery.

In addition, kapok has a wide range of uses, and its stamens are good fabric materials. The ancient book records that "the kapok tree is two or three feet high and cut into paulownia. In February and March, the flowers are both withered and the core is cotton. He wove it into a blanket, white as snow and extremely warm. " On the other hand, kapok is soft and can be used to make packaging boards, matchsticks, wooden boats, barrels and pots. , is also the raw material of papermaking.

[Edit this paragraph] Chinese medicine therapy

1. Treatment of dysentery: kapok, honeysuckle and Pteris multifida each 15g, decocted in water.

2, treatment of red and white dysentery: kapok, tea each 15-30 grams, decoction. Kapok (Figure 2)

3, treatment of damp-heat diarrhea: kapok15g, fish-shaped anemone12g, amaranth head 30g, decocted in water.

4. Treating female wind in Yuezi: 60g of kapok root bark, 30g of safflower louse female head root, decocted in water and served with wine.

5, treatment of lung cancer, intestinal cancer: kapok root 15-30 grams, 3 bowls of water to take more than half a bowl of warm clothes.

6, cure stomach pain: 30 grams of kapok root or bark, 6 grams of thorns, decoction.

7, bleeding after defecation: 30 grams of kapok skin, 90 grams of pig red meat, soup service.

8, treatment of joint pain: 30 grams of kapok roots, decoction.

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