baai (kudzu)

Folkloric

• Root of the plant is both food and medicine; however, above ground part is considered emetic.

• Root prescribed for fevers, colds, influenza, dysentery, snake bites.

• Use to counteract the effects of croton oil and other poisonous drugs.

• Externally applied to dog bites.

• Seeds used for dysentery and alcoholic excess.

• Flowers also used for alcohol excess.

• Leaves used on wounds as styptic.

• Shoots used to stimulate secretion of milk; applied to incipient boils and aphthous stomatitis in children.

• Every part of the plant used for skin rashes.

• Flowers used as diaphoretic and febrifuge.

• In Chinese traditional medicine, used to treat tinnitus, vertigo, deafness, diabetes; used as a remedy for alcoholism and hangover; flowers used to detoxify the liver. Also used as diaphoretic and febrifuge. Root decoction used for colds, dysentery, and fever.

 

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