Nutritional value of Pueraria root

People who love to make soup know that Pueraria root is mainly used for making soup and has a very high nutritional value. Let’s learn about it together.

Pueraria lobata introduction

Pueraria root is the tuberous root of the leguminous plant kudzu or sweet kudzu vine. Pueraria and sweet kudzu vine are perennial deciduous vines. Pueraria grows on hillsides, in roadside grass and in relatively shady and humid places. It is distributed in most parts of the country except Xinjiang and Tibet. Sweet kudzu vine is cultivated or grows wild in mountain shrubs and sparse forests, distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places.

After 3 to 4 years of cultivation, dig up the tubers in winter when the leaves turn yellow and before they sprout, remove the vines, cut the root heads for seeds, remove the mud and sand, scrape off the rough skin, cut into 1.5 to 2 cm thick oblique slices, and dry them in the sun or oven.

1. The complete tuber of Pueraria lobata is cylindrical, with brown surface, longitudinal wrinkles, visible lenticels and root fibrous marks. The texture is solid. Most of the commercial medicinal materials are oblique, cross-cut or longitudinal slices, of varying sizes, with rough cross-sections, light yellow-brown, and 1 to 3 concentric ring layers can be vaguely seen. It has strong fiber, slightly powdery, slight odor, and slightly sweet taste.

2. Pueraria root is the tuber of sweet kudzu vine, cylindrical or spindle-shaped, some are thick slices cut longitudinally or obliquely, of different sizes. The surface without the skin is yellowish white or light yellow, and the surface without the skin is grayish brown. The texture is hard and heavy, with weak fiber, and some are wooly and powdery.

The best ones are those with large pieces, firm texture and sufficient powderiness.

Effects of edible kudzu root

Pueraria root is sweet and spicy, neutral in nature; it enters the spleen and stomach meridians; it is mild and soothing, and has the effects of ascending, dispersing and slightly descending.

It has the effects of relieving muscle and fever, dispelling wind and clearing rashes, promoting body fluid and quenching thirst, and raising yang and stopping diarrhea.

It is mainly used to treat exogenous fever, severe pain in the head and neck, delayed outbreak of measles, thirst due to febrile disease, diabetes, diarrhea, dysentery, alcohol poisoning, chest pain and heart pain.

Pueraria root is suitable for people

1. Suitable for patients with cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and hyperlipidemia, those with chemical liver damage, people who drink excessively, mental workers, the elderly with memory loss, and patients with fever.

2. It is suitable for those suffering from five kinds of fatigue and seven kinds of injuries, upper body fullness and lower body emptiness. Even those with spleen and stomach diseases should not take it in summer. It is easy to induce vomiting and those with cold stomach should use it with caution.

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