Excuse me: What are the advantages or disadvantages of kapok? How to use it? In a hurry ... thank you for your questions.

The efficacy and function of kapok is the city flower of Guangzhou, and the flower language is to cherish the people around you and happiness. Kapok not only has beautiful flowers, but also has the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis and detoxifying. It can be used to make soup, whether fresh or dry. Kapok in the fruit can be used to make cotton-padded clothes, quilts and pillows. Because cotton is not produced in South China, kapok cotton wool is undoubtedly an excellent substitute. Li Cong, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said, "Clothes cut kapok." Kapok is very special to Guangzhou people. -The efficacy of kapok: In addition to the medicinal efficacy of kapok, there is kapok in the herbal tea Wuhua Tea, which is one of the most popular herbal teas. Or directly boil water with kapok and a little sugar, which also has a good effect of eliminating dampness and detoxifying. Kapok not only has high ornamental value, but also has medicinal value in flowers, skins and roots. Dry cooking porridge or soup with kapok can detoxify, clear away heat, drive away cold and dehumidify; Boiled water with kapok bark also has the effects of clearing heat, diuresis and detoxification, and has obvious curative effect on chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, diarrhea and dysentery. In addition, kapok has a wide range of uses, and its stamens are good fabric materials. The ancient book records that "the kapok tree is two or three feet high and cut into paulownia. In February and March, the flowers are both withered and the core is cotton. He wove it into a blanket, white as snow and extremely warm. " On the other hand, kapok is soft and can be used to make packaging boards, matchsticks, wooden boats, barrels and pots. , is also the raw material of papermaking. Medicinal value: the bark of kapok is used as medicine in Guangdong, which is called the bark of Erythrina kwangtungensis. Bitter in taste and flat in nature, it has the functions of expelling wind, removing dampness, dredging collaterals and killing insects. Treat rheumatism, arthralgia, dysentery, toothache and scabies. ① Materia Medica of Haiyao: Treating lumbago and leg pain, intractable leg and knee pain, cholera, red eyes and white dysentery, bloody dysentery and scabies. ② "Rihuazi Materia Medica": Treat the pain of vascular paralysis and decoct and wash the red eyes. 3 "Kaibao Materia Medica": the main cholera is evil, long red and white, except sweet scabies. Toothworm is painful, contain it in water, and wash your eyes with water to remove redness and swelling of the skin. ④ "Outline": It can activate the meridians, reach the affected area, enter the blood, dispel wind and kill insects. ⑤ Collection of Lingnan Materia Medica: promoting granulation and relieving pain, dispersing blood and cooling skin, and traumatic injury. ⑥ Nanning Medical Journal: detumescence, blood stasis and pain relief. Treat cough and stop postpartum blood stasis pain. ⑦ "Guizhou herbs": clearing away heat, removing blood stasis, detoxifying and promoting granulation. Treat carbuncle and fracture of breast. Various factions discussed 1, "Essentials of Raw Medicinal Materials": white is better for dysentery. 2, "Materia Medica Seeking the Original": Red people go to red dysentery, white people treat white dysentery, and the same Wuyi tea is often drunk. 3, "Lingnan Materia Medica Collection": Summer. 4. New version of Chinese medicine: diuresis and stomach strengthening. -5. Nanning pharmacology: eliminating damp heat. Treatment of bloody collapse, gold wound. 6, "Guangxi Chinese Medicine": to remove dampness and poison, treat malignant sores. 7. Handbook of Chinese herbal medicines commonly used in Guangzhou army: clearing heat and promoting diuresis, treating enteritis and bacillary dysentery.