[Variety Source]
This product is the root of kudzu (Pueraria lobata (Willd.) ohwi) or kudzu (Pueraria thomsonii benth.), a perennial deciduous vine of the legume family. Distributed throughout the north and south of my country. It is excavated, sliced and sun-dried in spring and autumn. Use raw or simmered.
[Property]
sweet and acrid, cool. act on spleen and stomach channels.
[Efficacy]
Releasing flesh reduces fever, releases hair measles, promotes fluid production to quench thirst, promotes yang and stops diarrhea.
[Indications]
- For external exterior contraction syndrome/pattern. This product is sweet, pungent and cool in nature. It can be easily dispersed and enters the spleen and stomach meridian. It has the effect of inducing sweating to releasing exterior and releasing flesh and reducing fever. Therefore, it can be used to treat external contraction exterior syndrome/pattern, evil stagnation and fever, severe fever, and aversion to cold. Mild, headache, dry nose, slight thirst, thin yellow coating, often used synonymously with Bupleurum, Skullcap Root, Dahurian Angelica , such as Bupleurum and Pueraria Flesh-Releasing Decoction; if syndrome/pattern of common cold due to wind-cold, symptoms include aversion to cold without sweating, strong pain in the neck and back, often used with Ephedra , Cinnamon Twig, Peony Root are used together, such as Pueraria Decoction.
- Used for measles to be opaque. This product has the effect of releasing and dispersing pathogens, releasing flesh, reducing fever, and releasing measles. Therefore, it can be used to treat measles at the beginning, exterior pathogens, and rashes that are not smooth. It is often used with Cimicifuga Rhizome, Peony Root, Liquorice Root, etc., such as Cimicifuga and Pueraria Decoction; can also be used with Mentha, Great Burdock Achene, Schizonepeta, Cicada Slough, etc. can be used.
- Used for Rebing thirst, yin deficiency consumptive thirst. This product is sweet and cool, can clear away heat, and can encourage the rise of stomach qi, and has the effect of promoting fluid production to quench thirst. It is used to treat Rebing body fluid injury and thirst. It is often used with Reed Rhizome , Snakegourd Root, Anemarrhena can be used equally; if used to treat consumptive thirst caused by internal heat, it should be used with Smoked Plum, Snakegourd Root, Ophiopogon Tuber, Tangshen, Astragalus Root are equivalent, such as Jade Spring Pill.
- It is used for heat diarrhea due to spleen deficiency. This product can not only clear away expelling pathogenic heat, but also raise clear yang, encourage the rising of qi of clearing yang in the spleen and stomach, and have the effect of stopping diarrhea and dysentery. Therefore, it can be used to treat exterior syndrome/pattern heat that has not been solved and the pathogenic heat has entered the inside. For diarrhea, heat and dysentery, often used together with Skullcap Root, Coptis Rhizome, Liquorice Root, such as Pueraria , Skullcap and Coptis Decoction; if diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, often paired with Tangshen, Poria, Liquorice Root, etc. Use, such as Seven-Ingredient White Atractylodes Powder.
[Documentation]
- Benjing: "Maintains consumptive thirst, severe body heat, vomiting, yin qi, and relieves various poisons."
- Bielu: "Treats disease Caused by cold apoplexy headache, releasing the flesh and effusing the external, sweating, striae and interstice. ""Root juice, cures consumptive thirst, disease caused by cold high fever."
- "Medicinal Symbols": "Its. The qi is light, encouraging the stomach qi to ascend, producing body fluids, releasing flesh heat, and treating spleen-stomach weakness and diarrhea."
[Usage and Dosage]
Decoct and take 10-15g. It is suitable to be used raw to reduce fever and promote fluid production, and it is suitable to be used simmered to promote Yang and relieve diarrhea.
[Modern Pharmacology]
This product mainly contains flavonoids: daidzin, daidzin, as well as daidzin-4,7-diglucoside, Pueraria Root, Pueraria Root-7-xyloside, Pueraria Root alcohol, Pueraria Root vinelin and Isoflavone glycosides and starches.
- Pueraria Root can dilate coronary blood vessels and cerebral blood vessels, increase coronary blood flow and cerebral blood flow.
- Pueraria Root total flavonoids can reduce myocardial oxygen consumption and increase oxygen supply.
- Pueraria Root can directly dilate blood vessels, reduce peripheral resistance, and has obvious antihypertensive effects, which can better relieve the "neck tightness" symptoms of patients with hypertension.
- Pueraria Root can inhibit platelet aggregation.
- Pueraria Root has broad beta-blocking effects.
- Didzein has a significant antispasmodic effect on the isolated intestine of mice and can resist intestinal spasm caused by acetylcholine.
- Pueraria Root also has significant antipyretic properties.
- It also has a slight hypoglycemic effect.
[Supplementary Medication]
Pueraria Flower: The unopened flower buds of Pueraria. The nature and flavor are sweet and flat. It has good functions in detoxifying alcohol and refreshing the spleen and stomach. Mainly used for excessive drinking, headache, dizziness, polydipsia, vomiting, chest and diaphragm fullness and other symptoms. The usual amount is 3~15g.