What is Pueraria root kudzu root?Value of Pueraria root kudzu root and Pueraria root kudzu root extracts?

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Traditional Chinese Medicine Description.

Pueraria root Extract Pueraria Lobata Extract CAS 223748-08-1 photo picture image Kudzu is a coarse, high-climbing, twining, trailing, perennial vine. The huge root, which can grow to the size of a human body, is the source of medicinal preparations used in traditional Chinese medicine and modern herbal products. Kudzu grows in most shaded areas in mountains, fields, along roadsides, thickets, and thin forests throughout most of China. The root of another Asian species of kudzu, Pueraria thomsonii, is also used for herbal products. Kudzu root is high in isoflavones, such as daidzein, as well as isoflavone glycosides, such as daidzin and puerarin. Depending on its growing conditions, the total isoflavone content varies from 1.77-12.0%, with puerarin in the highest concentration, followed by daidzin and daidzein. As is the case with other flavonoid-like substances, the constituents in kudzu root are associated with improved microcirculation and blood flow through the coronary arteries. A widely publicized 1993 animal study showed that both daidzin and daidzein inhibit the desire for alcohol.The authors concluded that the root extract may in fact be useful in reducing the urge for alcohol and as treatment for alcoholism. This has not yet been proven in controlled clinical studies with humans.

 TCM classifies it as a sweet and pungent herb with a mild property. It is spasmolytic, antipyretic, secretory, and anti-diarrheal. It is also thought to induce the eruption of measles at the early stage.

 Applications:

 1. Used for exterior syndromes caused by exopathogens:

 Being sweet and pungent in taste, cool in nature and so light as to be able to rise and disperse and enter the spleen and stomach channels, this herb relieves exterior syndromes by means of profuse perspiration and expels pathogenic factors from muscles and skin to reduce fever, so it is often used together with Chinese thorowax root (Radix Bupleuri), skullcap root (Radix Scutellariae), dahurian angelica root (Radix Angelicae Dahuricae), etc., e.g., Chaige Jieji Tang, for the treatment of exterior syndromes caused by exopathogens such as fever-causing stagnation of pathogenic factors, serious fever with light chills, headache with dryness of the nasal cavities, slight thirst with thin and yellow fur; often used in combination with ephedra (Herba Ephedrae), cassia twig and herbaceous peony root (Radix Paeoniae Alba), e.g., Gegen Tang, for exterior syndromes caused by pathogenic wind-cold, such as chills with anhidrosis and pains and stiffness of the nape and back.
 Pueraria root Extract Pueraria Lobata Extract CAS 223748-08-1 photo picture image

 2. Used for measles without adequate eruption:

 This herb relieves exterior syndromes by dispersing exopathogens, expels pathogenic factors from muscles and skin to reduce fever and promotes eruption, so it can often be used together with skunk bugbane rhizome (Rhizoma Cimicifugae), e.g., Shengma Gegen Tang, for the treatment of initial attacks of measles, attacks of exopathogens on the superficies of the body and measles without smooth eruption; it can also be used together with peppermint, great burdock achene (Fructus Arctii), jingjie (Herba Schizonepetae), cicada slough, etc.

 3. Used for thirst due to febrile disease and diabetes due to yin deficiency:

 Being sweet and cool, this herb can encourage stomach-qi to rise while reducing fever, with the effect of promoting the production of body fluids to quench thirst and is often used with common reed rhizome (Rhizoma Phragmitis), Chinese trichosanthes (Radix Trichosanthis), windweed rhizome (Rhizoma Anemarrhenae), etc., for the treatment of thirst due to febrile diseases and impairment of body fluids; largely used in combination with black plums, ophiopogon root (Radix Ophiopogonis), Chinese trichosanthes (Radix Trichosanthis), dangshen (Radix Codonopsis Pilosulae), milk vetch root (Radix Astragali seu Hedysari), etc., e.g., Yu Chuan Wan, for the treatment of diabetes due to internal heat.

 4. Used for diarrhea or dysentery due to pathogenic heat and diarrhea due to deficiency of the spleen:

 This herb can not only clear away and disperse pathogenic heat, but also raise lucid yang in such a way as to encourage the clear yang-qi of the spleen and stomach to rise and achieve the effect of relieving diarrhea or dysentery, so it is often used together with skullcap root (Radix Scutellariae), Chinese goldthread rhizome (Rhizoma Coptidis) and licorice, e.g., Gegen Qin Lian Tang for the treatment of dysentery due to pathogenic heat with undispersed exterior syndromes and the invasion of pathogenic heat into the interior; often used in combination with ginseng, tuckahoe (Poria cocos), licorice, etc., e.g., Qiwei Baishu San, for diarrhea due to deficiency of the spleen.

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last edit date:5th,May.2009.