[Editor] According to the records in the Code of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the stem of Mimosa can cure spur, the root can diminish inflammation and relieve pain, and it can also relieve cough and resolve phlegm. The medicinal use of mimosa in traditional Chinese medicine is recorded in some ancient books:
"Basic Herbs": Relieve pain and swelling.
"Seeking Materia Medica": Apply sores.
Collection of Lingnan Materia Medica: Treating Eye Heat Pain
Modern medical research Modern medical research believes that Mimosa contains a large number of active substances beneficial to human body, including flavonoids, phenols, bioactive polysaccharides, amino acids, organic acids and other trace elements. [7] Therefore, Mimosa can be used for colds, high fever in children, acute conjunctivitis, bronchitis, gastritis, enteritis, urinary calculi, malaria and neurasthenia; External use can cure: traumatic swelling and pain, sores and swelling, hemoptysis, herpes zoster and other diseases.
Toxic mimosa is a little toxic, so it must not be taken alone, but should be used together with other drugs. Especially in animal husbandry, eating mimosa by mistake often causes animal diseases. Among them, the most common poisoning is caused by cattle eating mimosa, which usually occurs in winter. Cattle poisoning is characterized by depression, grinding teeth, wheezing, dyspnea, neurological symptoms and edema. [9] In addition, due to mimosa, camels, horses, etc. Eat mimosin, mice and rats eat 0. 5% ~ 1.0% mimosin also caused alopecia, cataract and growth inhibition. And people who eat mimosa will lose their hair, so it is not suitable for planting mimosa indoors.