Chinese medicine believes that boat-fruited Sterculia is sweet in taste and cool in nature, and has the effects of clearing away lung-heat, benefiting throat, detoxicating and relaxing bowels. It is used for hoarseness due to lung heat, sore throat, heat constipation and excessive use of sound, and has a certain auxiliary effect on throat diseases such as sore throat and acute tonsillitis caused by exogenous diseases.
Clinically, it is used for lung qi stagnation, phlegm-heat cough, hoarseness, sore throat, etc., and is often used with herbs such as Radix Platycodi, Radix Glycyrrhizae, Periostracum Cicadae, Herba Menthae, Flos Lonicerae and Radix Ophiopogonis.
Extended data:
Boat-fruited Sterculia is not suitable for everyone, and it is not suitable for some situations:
1, spleen and stomach deficiency cold constitution, manifested as loss of appetite, abdominal cold pain, loose stool, then taking boat-fruited Sterculia is easy to cause diarrhea.
2. Cough and sore throat caused by wind-cold and cold are manifested as aversion to cold, physical weakness and white phlegm cough.
3, cough caused by lung yin deficiency, manifested as dry cough without phlegm, hoarseness, mostly chronic respiratory diseases.
4. Boat-fruited Sterculia has the function of lowering blood pressure. Therefore, people with normal blood pressure or low blood pressure may be at risk of low blood pressure if they take it for a long time. Fifth, boat-fruited Sterculia contains galacturonic acid, arabinose, galactose acetic acid, galactose and so on. Therefore, it is best for diabetics to drink less.
References:
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