6 ways to use kudzu to cool the body in the summer

Kudzu (also known as cat root).

The scientific name of the cassava root is Radix Pueraria thomsonii, belonging to the butterfly family. People take the cassava root, wash it to remove dirt and sand, peel off the outer skin, and cut it into 10cm long pieces. Then dry it in the sun or with a dryer.

If you want to make tapioca starch, pound it, filter the starch, filter it many times and then dry it.

Store processed tapioca starch in a glass jar, keep in a dry place, avoid mold and moisture.

1. Health benefits of kudzu

According to modern medicine, kudzu contains 15% starch (fresh roots), contains many flavonoids (daidzin, puerarin, formononetin...), triterpenoids, succinic acid, allantoin...

In Oriental medicine, cat's claw is sweet, spicy, neutral, and non-toxic; it enters the spleen, bladder, and lung meridians. It has the effects of dispersing heat, relieving the exterior, detoxifying, generating body fluids, penetrating the digestive tract, relieving thirst, stopping diarrhea, relieving spasms, relaxing muscles, and lifting stomach qi.

Can be used in decoction form, mixed with drinking water, cooked porridge, cooked sweet soup, steeped in boiling water to drink.

2. Ways to use kudzu

2.1.With sliced ​​cassava root

Use:After drying, store in a sealed jar for later use. Every day, take 20-30g, steep with boiling water in a sealed jar, after about 20 minutes you can drink it, drink instead of tea during the day. When drinking, you can add a little rock sugar to enhance the flavor.

Effect:Rejuvenates, quenches thirst, and relieves symptoms.

Sliced ​​sand root can be steeped in boiling water and drunk during the day.

2.2.With tapioca starch

Use:Take 3 teaspoons of tapioca starch, add white sugar and mix with filtered water, stir well and drink. You can add a little lemon juice.

Effects: Clears the exterior, detoxifies, generates body fluids, and dissipates heat.

Tapioca starch water is refreshing and easy to make.

2.3.Tapioca starch and rice porridge

Ingredient:30g tapioca starch, 50g rice.

How to do:Soak rice in water overnight, cook with tapioca starch and a little sugar to eat.

Uses:Suitable for patients with fever, fatigue, dysentery, poor appetite.

2.4.Gotu kola and arrowroot juice

Ingredient:Fresh pennywort 20-30g, tapioca starch 20g.

Use:Wash pennywort, crush and add 100-200ml of boiling water, filter the water and mix with tapioca starch to drink. You can add sugar to make it easier to drink.

Effect:Used when the patient has fever, boils, bloody dysentery, heat in the body or thirst.

2.5.Cook tapioca starch dessert

Ingredient: 3 tablespoons tapioca starch, 200ml water, 2 tablespoons white sugar.

Use:Add water, tapioca starch, sugar into the pot, stir well until the tapioca starch is no longer lumpy. Place on the stove over low heat, stir with a spoon and chopsticks, cook until the tapioca starch thickens and turns clear white, then turn off the stove.

Tapioca starch dessert.

2.6.The medicine "Cat Can thang"

Ingredient:Sand root 160g, ephedra (remove eyes) 120g, cinnamon 80g, peony 80g, ginger 120g, licorice 160g, jujube 12g.

Use:Boil 800ml of water with sand root and ephedra until 600ml remains. Skim off the foam and add the other herbs. Boil until 300ml remains. Filter out the residue and drink while still warm. After drinking, cover yourself with a blanket to sweat.

Effect:Relieves the exterior, induces perspiration, promotes body fluids, and relaxes muscles.

Main treatment:Colds, flu, acute enteritis, early stage bacillary dysentery.

Sand root is the main ingredient in the prescription "Cat root thang".

3. Notes when using kudzu

Choose a reputable source of kudzu root, ensure quality, avoid buying fake goods. Sand root is incompatible with honey, grapefruit flowers, lotus, jasmine so they should not be used together. The reason is that sand root is sweet, cold in nature; grapefruit flowers, lotus, jasmine have bitter, warm in nature... if used together (such as cooking, decoction) will reduce the heat-clearing effect of sand root. Children, pregnant women, people with cold bodies, fatigue, people with threatened miscarriage, people with weak stomachs, diarrhea, cold hands and feet should not use. You should only drink 1 cup of kudzu root per day, mixed with a moderate amount of sugar.