The medical value of cowpea, diseases that cowpea can treat

Cowpea is not only a vegetable with very high nutritional value, but also has certain medical value. Let me tell you about it today:

Main Ingredients

The seeds contain a lot of starch, fatty oil, protein, niacin, vitamin B1 and B2. Fresh cowpea contains 22 mg of ascorbic acid (vitamin C).

Pharmacology

Sweet, neutral. ① "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "Nude." ② "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Sweet, salty, neutral, non-toxic." ③ "New Materia Medica": "Sweet, astringent, neutral." Meridians

Enters the spleen and kidney meridians. ① "Depei Materia Medica": "Enters the Qi of the Taiyin meridian of the foot." ② "Bencao Qiuzhen": "Enters the kidney and also the stomach."

Function and indications

Strengthens the spleen and kidneys. Treats spleen and stomach weakness, diarrhea, vomiting, thirst, spermatorrhea, leucorrhea, leucorrhea, and frequent urination.

① "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "It can treat spleen and earth deficiency, stimulate appetite and strengthen the spleen."

② "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can regulate the middle qi, nourish the kidney and strengthen the stomach, harmonize the five internal organs, regulate the Ying and Wei, and produce essence. It can stop thirst, vomiting, diarrhea, frequent urination, and detoxify rat poison."

③ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can disperse blood and reduce swelling, clear away heat and detoxify."

④ "Yi Lin Zong Yao": "It nourishes the heart and drains the kidneys, infiltrates water, promotes urination, and lowers turbidity and raises clarity."

⑤ "Sichuan Chinese Medicine Records": "It nourishes yin and kidney, strengthens spleen and stomach, and helps digestion. It treats abdominal distension due to food accumulation, leucorrhea, leucorrhea, and spermatorrhea due to kidney deficiency."

Dosage

For internal use: decocted into soup, cooked into porridge, and mostly used in making sticky cakes and bean buns in the north; in the south, it is mostly used for cooking. It can be stir-fried, served cold, or fried with auxiliary ingredients such as green peppers. It is also used as a condiment for various soups and noodles.

It can be dried and is mostly used as a dried vegetable in the north. It can be stir-fried with meat or made into hot and sour soup on its own.

Practical options

1. Treat abdominal distension and belching caused by food stagnation: chew and swallow an appropriate amount of raw cowpea, or mash and dissolve in cold water. Selected from (Chengdu "Common Herbal Treatment Manual")

2. Treat leucorrhea and leucorrhea: stew cowpea, vine vegetable and chicken. Selected from (Sichuan Chinese Medicine Records)

3. Treat snake bites: Cowpea, Mountain Sagittaria, cherry leaves, soybean leaves. Mash them into fluff and apply externally.