1. Kapok tastes sweet, light and cold. Dry cooking porridge or soup with kapok can detoxify, clear away heat, drive away cold and eliminate dampness.
2. Kapok has the effect of regulating the stomach. Kapok, a traditional Chinese medicine, can treat gastrointestinal dysfunction and has good curative effect on chronic gastritis, abdominal distension and diarrhea.
3. Kapok has the function of cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Porridge with dried tangerine peel can strengthen spleen and stomach, moisten lung and relieve cough, and cool blood and benefit blood.
4. Cooking soup with kapok skin also has the effects of clearing heat, diuresis and detoxification, and has obvious curative effect on chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, diarrhea and dysentery.
Extended data:
Kapok is not suitable for people with yin deficiency and body fluid deficiency or cold deficiency. If you are allergic to pollen, it is also recommended not to use kapok to avoid side effects. Pregnant women and menstruating women are also not suitable for taking kapok, because kapok is cold and sweet, which can easily lead to negative body increase and seriously endanger life safety.
References:
People's Health Network: Jianpi Qushi Hu Aishan Kapok Decoction