Medicinal value of Kapok

Harvesting and processing:

Pick or gather blooms in spring. Dry in the sun.

Medicinal properties:

The flowers are 5 to 8 cm long, wrinkled when dry, and are in irregular lumps. Most of them do not have ovaries and pedicels.

The calyx is cup-shaped, 2.5 to 4 cm long, 2 to 3 cm in diameter, 3 to 5 lobes at the apex, thick and leathery, very brittle, brown-black on the outside with longitudinal wrinkles, and covered with gray-yellow short hairs on the inside.

There are 5 petals , many stamens, arranged in multiple rows, fused at the base, and the anthers are kidney-shaped and curled. It has a faint smell and a light, slightly sweet taste. The best ones are large, complete, and brown-yellow in color.

Nature, flavor and function:

Sweet; light; cool in nature. Clears away heat, promotes dampness and detoxifies. Used for diarrhea, dysentery, metrorrhagia, and sores. The usual dosage is 5 to 10 grams.

Remark:

The bark of the kapok tree is used as medicine in Guangdong as Pittosporum tobira bark, called Guangdong Pittosporum tobira bark. It tastes bitter, is neutral in nature, and has the function of dispersing rheumatism.

function:

Clears away heat, promotes dampness and detoxifies. Used for diarrhea, dysentery, metrorrhagia, and sores.

Treatable diseases

Treat dysentery

Treat red and white dysentery

Treating Damp-Heat Dysentery

Treating menstrual wind in women

Treat lung cancer and colon cancer

Treat stomachache

Treating bleeding after defecation

Treat arthritis