Zhangjiajie Specialty: Kudzu Root Powder
Benefits and Health Value of Kudzu Root Powder: It clears heat, aids digestion, and is highly effective as a diuretic and in sobering up. Puerarin extracted from kudzu dilates coronary and cerebral arteries, lowers blood pressure, significantly increases blood supply to ischemic tissue, has beta-1 receptor blocking effects, notably slows heart rate, reduces myocardial oxygen consumption, and alleviates cardiac...
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The effects and health value of kudzu root powder: cooling and reducing internal heat, stimulating appetite and promoting digestion, and having remarkable effects in promoting urination and relieving alcohol.
Puerarin extracted from kudzu root has the effect of dilating coronary arteries and cerebral arteries, can lower blood pressure, can significantly increase blood supply to ischemic tissues, has a B1 receptor blocking effect, can significantly slow heart rate, reduce myocardial oxygen consumption, can alleviate myocardial ischemia, limit and reduce the scope of myocardial infarction, resist tachyarrhythmia, lower cholesterol and blood viscosity, inhibit platelet aggregation, and improve microcirculation. Kudzu powder contains more than ten kinds of amino acids and more than ten kinds of trace elements needed by the human body, among which calcium, zinc, and phosphorus are the highest in content. The selenium-rich element contained in kudzu powder has a certain anti-cancer effect.
Kudzu powder also has the effects of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and of being antibacterial and detoxifying. It has good therapeutic effects on coronary heart disease, sore throat caused by colds, mouth and tongue sores, and clearing internal heat and diarrhea in children. It can also treat headache caused by typhoid and wind-stroke, treat chest and diaphragm irritability and heat with mania, stop bloody dysentery, free the small intestine, discharge pus and break blood, promote urination and defecation, relieve alcohol, and treat diarrhea due to weakness of the spleen and stomach. Kudzu powder is widely consumed, with the highest content in liver, kidney, and heart tissues, and is especially suitable for the elderly and young children.
It is introduced in detail in eight major classics of traditional Chinese medicine, including the Compendium of Materia Medica, Shennong Bencao Jing, Zhenglei Bencao, Hua Tuo's Posthumous Writings, Chinese Pharmacopoeia, Complete Works of the Medicine King, and Handed-Down Collected Works.
Kudzu root starch was once a tribute item and has three uses: food, medicine, and special industrial use. The flavonoids contained in kudzu root and kudzu leaves have various confirmed health effects, and their clinical application shows the rare characteristics of rapid and highly effective action.
Kudzu powder not only has a unique and attractive flavor, but its taste and dietary therapeutic value are also excellent.
Especially today, with environmental pollution, chemical pollution, and even air pollution, under generally polluted conditions, people advocating pure natural, safe, effective foods with special health benefits is a global trend.
The flavonoid substances contained in kudzu powder have been praised by relevant traditional Chinese medicine experts as a "beauty vitamin enhancer." They have the function of clearing waste from the body. People who regularly consume kudzu powder can achieve the effects of strengthening tendons and bones, beautifying and strengthening the body, and prolonging life.
The living environment, distribution, and health and medicinal value of kudzu root:
1: Kudzu root is the tuberous root of the leguminous plant kudzu. It is a perennial plant. Its flowers are light purple, irregularly flat and oblong or slightly flat kidney-shaped, length: 5 mm to 15 mm, width: 2 mm to 6 mm,
thickness: 2 mm to 3 mm. Wild kudzu grows in hillside grass, shrub forest edges, roadsides, stream banks, and relatively shady and moist areas. It grows easily and is widely distributed in China in Chongqing, Guizhou, Zhangjiajie in Hunan, Hebei, Gansu, and other places.
2: According to the Compendium of Materia Medica: Kudzu root is sweet and pungent in flavor, neutral in nature, and non-toxic. It mainly treats wasting-thirst, high fever, vomiting, various impediments, raises yin qi, and resolves various toxins. It treats headache from typhoid and wind-stroke, releases the flesh and induces sweating, opens and regulates the interstices, treats metal wounds, and stops pain from rib wind. It treats epidemic upward qi with vomiting and counterflow, opens the stomach and promotes digestion, and resolves alcohol toxins. It treats chest and diaphragm irritability and heat with mania, stops bloody dysentery, frees the small intestine, discharges pus, and breaks blood. Applied topically, it treats snake and insect bites and poisonous arrow wounds. It kills wild kudzu, croton, and the toxins of hundreds of medicines. The raw form induces abortion; steamed and eaten, it resolves alcohol toxins. It can cut off grain and prevent hunger. Made into powder, it is especially wonderful. Made into powder, it quenches thirst, promotes urination and defecation, relieves alcohol, removes irritability and heat, and lowers urinary stones. Applied topically, it treats heat sores in children. Pounded into juice and drunk, it treats heat accumulation in children. For lynx-dog injuries, pound into juice and drink it, and also apply the powder topically; it disperses stagnant fire.
3: Modern medicine shows that kudzu root contains large amounts of puerarin and flavonoids, which can increase coronary blood flow, lower vascular resistance, regulate blood circulation, and reduce myocardial oxygen consumption. It is a relatively common myocardial protective substance; it can relieve spasms and pain and prevent and treat high blood pressure, dizziness and headache, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, and neurogenic headache; it has pharmacological effects such as clearing heat and cooling blood, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, antiviral, and anti-diabetic complications; it has effects such as resisting free radicals, antioxidation, anti-cancer, and enhancing the body's immunity, and is non-toxic and harmless. It is of great significance for the treatment and prevention of tumors, aging, and cardiovascular diseases in humans.
The living environment, distribution, and health and medicinal value of kudzu root:
1: Kudzu root is the tuberous root of the leguminous plant kudzu. It is a perennial plant. Its flowers are light purple, irregularly flat and oblong or slightly flat kidney-shaped, length: 5 mm to 15 mm, width: 2 mm to 6 mm, thickness: 2 mm to 3 mm. Wild kudzu grows in hillside grass, shrub forest edges, roadsides, stream banks, and relatively shady and moist areas. It grows easily and is widely distributed in China in Chongqing, Guizhou, Zhangjiajie in Hunan, Hebei, Gansu, and other places.
2: According to the Compendium of Materia Medica: Kudzu root is sweet and pungent in flavor, neutral in nature, and non-toxic. It mainly treats wasting-thirst, high fever, vomiting, various impediments, raises yin qi, and resolves various toxins. It treats headache from typhoid and wind-stroke, releases the flesh and induces sweating, opens and regulates the interstices, treats metal wounds, and stops pain from rib wind. It treats epidemic upward qi with vomiting and counterflow, opens the stomach and promotes digestion, and resolves alcohol toxins. It treats chest and diaphragm irritability and heat with mania, stops bloody dysentery, frees the small intestine, discharges pus, and breaks blood. Applied topically, it treats snake and insect bites and poisonous arrow wounds. It kills wild kudzu, croton, and the toxins of hundreds of medicines. The raw form induces abortion; steamed and eaten, it resolves alcohol toxins. It can cut off grain and prevent hunger. Made into powder, it is especially wonderful. Made into powder, it quenches thirst, promotes urination and defecation, relieves alcohol, removes irritability and heat, and lowers urinary stones. Applied topically, it treats heat sores in children. Pounded into juice and drunk, it treats heat accumulation in children. For lynx-dog injuries, pound into juice and drink it, and also apply the powder topically; it disperses stagnant fire.
3: Modern medicine shows that kudzu root contains large amounts of puerarin and flavonoids, which can increase coronary blood flow, lower vascular resistance, regulate blood circulation, and reduce myocardial oxygen consumption. It is a relatively common myocardial protective substance; it can relieve spasms and pain and prevent and treat high blood pressure, dizziness and headache, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, and neurogenic headache; it has pharmacological effects such as clearing heat and cooling blood, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, antiviral, and anti-diabetic complications; it has effects such as resisting free radicals, antioxidation, anti-cancer, and enhancing the body's immunity, and is non-toxic and harmless. It is of great significance for the treatment and prevention of tumors, aging, and cardiovascular diseases in humans.
II. How to use kudzu root powder:
How to consume kudzu root powder:
One: Mix with boiling water and drink:
(1) Put an appropriate amount of kudzu root powder into a bowl;
(2) Pour boiling water into the bowl, stir until it becomes a paste, and it is ready to eat after a few minutes.
Two: Kudzu root powder porridge:
[Ingredients] 30 grams of kudzu root powder, 100 grams of japonica rice.
[Method] Soak the japonica rice overnight, put it together with the kudzu root powder into a clay pot, add 600 grams of water, and cook over gentle heat until the rice porridge is thick.
[Effects] Releases the exterior and resolves the flesh, clears heat and removes irritability, promotes fluid production and quenches thirst, promotes eruption and stops diarrhea, and lowers blood pressure. Suitable for high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, senile diabetes, chronic diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, and summer thirst with frequent drinking.
[Commentary] Kudzu root also has the effect of lowering blood pressure and blood sugar. Patients with high blood pressure and diabetes can take it for a long time.
3. It can also be stir-fried with meat, and can even be used as a thickening starch.
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