The medical value of Pueraria

Kudzu root is the tuber root of the legume plant kudzu It is a common vegetable in some southern provinces of China It is sweet, cool and delicious, and often used for soup making Its main component is starch, in addition, it contains about 12% brass compounds, including more than 10 kinds of Soybean (soybean) glycosides, daidzein, puerarin, etc.; it also contains carotenoids, amino acids, coumarins, etc Pueraria is an ancient and commonly used traditional Chinese medicine As early as in the treatise on Febrile Diseases by Zhang Zhongjing of Han Dynasty, "Pueraria Decoction" is a famous prescription, which is still an important solution to the external symptoms "Herbal justice" says that Gegen "can develop the Qi of clearing Yang in spleen and stomach" Kudzu root is sweet and pungent, fragrant and cool It has spleen and stomach channels It has the functions of relieving muscle, Promoting Yang, penetrating rash, relieving heat and generating laws It is used to treat the symptoms such as fever, the beginning of measles, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, fever, thirst and thirst Pueraria has the effect of promoting the spleen and clearing the Yang, mainly as follows: 1 Treating blindness (1) central retinitis, 37 cases were treated with Pueraria Extract Tablets alone, all of them were effective; 10% puerarin eye drops could be used for chronic simple glaucoma They can also be taken with fresh Pueraria and 200g lean pork in soup (2) For retinal artery occlusion, 4 ml of 1:1 puerarin injection was intramuscularly injected twice a day, or 200 mg of puerarin injection was added into glucose solution for intravenous drip All of them were taken orally with vitamin 13, C, e, inosine and vitamin B12 (3) For retinal vein occlusion, puerarin can also be used as intravenous drip (4) For chronic simple glaucoma, 1% puerarin 1 was used for eye drop, and the intraocular pressure began to drop 2 hours after the treatment, and the effect could be maintained for 10 hours, twice a day （5） Senile cataract can be treated with Yiqi Mingming Decoction (Ge Gen, Cimicifuga, Vitex trifolia, astragalus, dangshen, paeony, moxibustion licorice and Phellodendron) In addition, it can also treat optic atrophy For fundus diseases, Pueraria brass solution can be injected under the conjunctiva or after the ball 2 For the treatment of tinnitus and deafness, such as cochlear deafness (sensorineural deafness), including sudden deafness, hydrocephalus of inner ear, noise traumatic deafness and concussion deafness of inner ear, it can be taken orally with Pueraria ethanol extract tablets, or puerarin flavone tablets (40 mg each time, 3 times a day), or puerarin flavone injection intramuscular injection (20 mg each time, 2 times a day), or Tongqiao Yiqi Decoction: Puerarin 30 g for Astragalus, 30 g for Salvia miltiorrhiza, 10 g for Vitex trifolia, 10 g for Bupleurum chinense, 10 g for peach kernel mud, 10 g for safflower, 10 g for chuanxiong, 10 g for red peony, 5 pieces for green onion tube, treated with syndrome differentiation and flavor modification, more than 1-4 weeks after taking medicine can be cured For vertigo of inner ear, we can add and subtract Pueraria Decoction: Pueraria, astragalus, mother of pearl, magnetite, cicada exuviate, calcined Longzhi, Cinnamon Twig, white peony, liquorice, and Chaihu to treat liver stagnation and blood deficiency; for the upper part, add Salvia miltiorrhiza, Uncaria (later), cassia seed to treat liver and kidney deficiency 3 For the treatment of rhinitis, such as allergic rhinitis, acute and chronic simple rhinitis, and chronic sinusitis, we can use Gegen Decoction (Pueraria, ephedra, Ramulus Cinnamomi, white peony, moxibustion liquorice, ginger, jujube) plus chuanxiong, Hua, Xanthium, etc 4 For the treatment of toothache such as acute and chronic pulpitis, caries, pericoronitis, alveolar abscess, toothache caused by long wisdom teeth, it can be added and subtracted by Gegen Decoction: 20-25g for Pueraria, 15g for paeony, 6-10g for ephedra, 10g for Ramulus Cinnamomi hive, and then added and subtracted by syndrome differentiation, with remarkable effect 5 In the treatment of aphthous ulcer (oral ulcer), 30 g Pueraria and 20 g mianjunchen are commonly used, and water is boiled instead of tea, which has a good effect All of the above diseases can be treated with Pueraria as dietary assistant The daily dosage of dried Pueraria is 15-30g and fresh Pueraria is about 100 If the dosage is used alone, it can be increased by 1-2 times and taken twice Fresh products can be steamed, soup can be made, can be used alone, can also be used with meat, fish, delicious.