The efficacy and effects of acacia and contraindications

March 27, 2023

Sophora is the dried flowers and flower buds of Sophora japonica, produced in most areas of China, is one of our traditional Chinese herbs, harvested in the summer when the flowers open or buds form, dried in time, used raw or fried yellow or fried charcoal for medicine. So what are the effects and contraindications of acacia flowers?

Cooling the blood to stop bleeding

It is suitable for the treatment of various bleeding symptoms caused by blood heat delusion, such as blood in the stool, hemorrhoids, blood dysentery, collapse, vomiting, epistaxis, etc. Because of its bitter downward movement, it is good at clearing the heat of the large intestine, so it is most effective for blood in the stool, hemorrhoids and blood dysentery caused by fire in the large intestine.

Clearing fire from the liver

It is bitter and cold in nature, and is good at clearing liver fire, so it can be used to treat redness of the eyes, headache and dizziness caused by inflammation of the liver, and can be taken as a tea with a decoction of Sophora flowers alone, or used with other liver-clearing drugs to treat symptoms such as redness of the eyes, headache and dizziness caused by liver heat.

Antibacterial

Sophora flavescens decoction has different degrees of inhibitory effect on various ringworm, stellate Nucella and other skin fungi.

Hemostatic

Sophora japonica fried carbon has a strong coagulant effect and has a good hemostatic effect on various bleeding symptoms, and its mechanism of action may be related to its tannin content in Sophora japonica carbon.

Contraindications of Sophora

Because of the sweetness of acacia flowers, diabetic patients should not eat more; acacia flowers are slightly cold, not suitable for people with cold spleen and stomach and frequent diarrhea and yin deficiency and fever without real fire; at the same time, people with allergies should also be cautious in eating acacia flowers.

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