Chinese medicine believes that Pueraria lobata is cool, sweet and pungent, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving muscles and fever, promoting eruption, promoting salivation, quenching thirst, promoting yang qi, stopping diarrhea, and relieving alcoholism.
The main chemical components of Pueraria lobata are puerarin, pueraria flavone, puerarin xyloside, daidzein, soybean flavonoid glycosides, etc. Modern pharmacological research shows that Pueraria lobata has the functions of improving cardiovascular and cerebrovascular circulation, lowering blood sugar and lipid, protecting liver and relieving alcoholism.
中医认为，葛根性凉，味甘、辛，具有清热解毒、解肌退热、透疹、生津止渴、升举阳气、止泻、解酒等功效。
葛根的主要化学成分有葛根素、葛根黄酮、葛根素木糖甙、大豆黄酮、大豆黄酮甙等。现代药理研究表明，葛根具有改善心、脑血管循环，降糖，降脂，护肝，解酒等作用。
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