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

Kudzu (also known as cat's claw).

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 cassava in a glass jar, in a dry place, away from 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, the taste of the root 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, promoting detoxification, generating body fluids, penetrating the gastrointestinal tract, relieving thirst, stopping diarrhea, relieving spasms, relaxing muscles, and promoting stomach qi.

How to use: Can be used in decoction form, mixed with drinking water, cooked porridge, cooked sweet soup, soaked 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 in 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.

Effect: Clear the exterior, detoxify, generate body fluids, and dissipate heat.

Tapioca starch water is refreshing and easy to make.

2.3.Tapioca and rice porridge

Ingredient:30g tapioca starch, 50g rice.

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

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

2.4.Gotu kola 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, internal heat 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, turns clear white, then turn off the stove.

Arrowroot powder tea.

2.6."Cat can thang" medicine

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

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

Effect:Dissolve the exterior, induce perspiration, promote body fluids, and relax muscles.

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

Sand root is the main ingredient in the medicine "Sand 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 flower, lotus, jasmine so they should not be used together. The reason is that sand root is sweet, cold in nature; grapefruit flower, lotus, jasmine are 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 body, fatigue, people with miscarriage, people with weak stomach, 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.