Can I eat Pueraria root during menstruation?

There are many things that female friends are not allowed to eat during menstruation. So, can you eat Pueraria root during menstruation? To answer this question, we cannot simply say yes or no. We need to understand what Pueraria root is and its functions and effects, what kind of health benefits and health care effects can eating Pueraria root regularly bring us, or what kind of side effects will eating Pueraria root bring.

Pueraria root has very high therapeutic effects. Eating Pueraria root regularly can relieve fever and inflammation. Pueraria root can enhance the body's immunity and has antibacterial benefits. Eating Pueraria root regularly can also protect our cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems.

1. Antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and immune effects

Pueraria root and Pueraria root Qinlian decoction have obvious antipyretic effects on experimental fever and obvious anti-inflammatory effects on experimental foot swelling. In vivo experiments on Gegenqinlian decoction showed that it could inhibit the death of mice caused by Pneumococcus and Shigella.

Gegen decoction can significantly enhance the phagocytic function of mouse macrophages and has the effect of resisting type I hypersensitivity.

2. Effects on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems

Pueraria lobata total flavonoids and puerarin can significantly dilate coronary arteries, which may be due to the direct effect of relaxing vascular smooth muscles.

Pueraria lobata total flavonoids and puerarin can reduce oxygen consumption in normal myocardium and myocardial infarction area, and have the effect of enhancing myocardial tolerance to ischemia.

Pueraria daidzein has anti-arrhythmic effects, and Pueraria lobata Scutellaria baicalensis decoction has an antagonistic effect on experimental ventricular premature beats in animals. Total flavonoids of Pueraria root can slow down the heart rate and increase the stroke volume.

Puerarin is a beta-receptor blocker with a significant antihypertensive effect. Puerarin has a significant effect on improving the blood flow of peripheral microvascular and cerebrovascular disorders, reducing vascular resistance and increasing blood flow.

3. Antispasmodic effect

Pueraria flavonoids, Pueraria decoction, and Pueraria lobata-sinensis decoction can counteract histamine and acetylcholine and have a poppyrine-like antispasmodic effect on the intestine. It has an inhibitory effect on the contraction of bronchial smooth muscle and intestinal smooth muscle.

4. Anticoagulant effect

Ge Gen Tang has obvious anti-thrombotic effect and significantly inhibits platelet aggregation.

Puerarin can slow down the metabolism of sugar and amino acids in the inner wall of blood vessels and relatively reduce collagen fibers, which is beneficial for preventing and treating atherosclerosis, platelet adhesion and thrombosis.

5. Antihypertensive effect

Pueraria root, total flavonoid daidzein and puerarin have obvious therapeutic effects on symptoms such as headache, dizziness, tinnitus, etc. caused by hypertension. Intravenous injection of Pueraria root extract, total flavonoids and puerarin caused a transient and significant decrease in blood pressure in normal anesthetized dogs. The decoction and alcohol extract can be administered orally to dogs with renal hypertension, which also has a certain antihypertensive effect. Intraperitoneal injection of puerarin can significantly reduce blood pressure and slow down heart rate in conscious spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). It can also significantly reduce the serum renin activity (PRA) of SHR. Solid dispersion of daidzein has a relatively early and weak hypotensive effect in anesthetized rabbits.

6. Inhibit platelet aggregation

Puerarin can inhibit ADP-induced platelet aggregation in rats in vitro, and also has an inhibitory effect on ADP- and 5-HT-induced platelet aggregation in rabbits, sheep and normal humans. It can also inhibit the release of H-5-hydroxytryptamine in rat platelets.

7. β-receptor blocking effect

Pueraria root extract has a significant antagonistic effect on the effect of isoproterenol on various isolated tissues with β-adrenergic receptors. Puerarin can significantly reduce the maximum binding capacity of β-receptors in rat myocardial membrane preparations. Completely inhibits the activation of adenylate cyclase by adrenaline. This indicates that it has a broad β-receptor blocking effect.

8. Antiarrhythmic effect

Pueraria flavonoids, soybean aglycone and Pueraria ethanol extract have obvious antagonistic effects on arrhythmias caused by aconitine, barium chloride, calcium chloride, chloroform-epinephrine and acute myocardial ischemia.

9. Improve cerebral blood circulation

Total flavonoids from Pueraria root increase cerebral blood flow, decrease cerebral vascular resistance, and significantly improve microcirculation disorders caused by local drip of norepinephrine. Intramuscular injection in patients with hypertension and arteriosclerosis can reduce cerebral vascular resistance, shorten blood inflow time, and have a mild effect on improving cerebral blood circulation.

10. Effects on smooth muscle

The various isoflavone components in Pueraria root may be antispasmodic components that relax smooth muscles, and the contractile components may be substances such as choline-acetylcholine and casaerine R. In particular, soybean jaundice has an anti-acetylcholine effect.

11. Anti-cancer and inducing cancer cell differentiation

The active ingredient extract of Pueraria root and soybean aglycone can inhibit the proliferation of HL-60 cells, causing the cells to develop from primitive promyeloblasts to mature mesomyeloblasts, agranules and mature rod-shaped granules and lobed nuclei. The extract has a G1 phase blocking effect on the transition of HL-60 cell cycle. When daidzein is used alone to treat HL-60 cells, its induction effect on the cells is weak. When daidzein is used in combination with BC-4, the active ingredient of frankincense, it has a significant inhibitory effect on the growth of HL-60 cells and a differentiation-inducing effect.

12. Antioxidant Effect

PG1, a flavonoid component isolated and purified from Pueraria root, can significantly inhibit hemolysis of erythrocytes caused by oxidative damage and inhibit the formation of lipid peroxides caused by active oxygen species (—OH, O2) in microsomes.

13. Hypoglycemic effect

Puerarin administered orally to mice had an inhibitory effect on alloxan-induced hyperglycemia in mice. For adrenaline-induced hyperglycemia in mice, puerarin only showed a hypoglycemic effect when used together with aspirin. Pueraria root decoction has a slight hypoglycemic effect on normal rabbits.

14. Improve learning and memory functions

Both the alcohol extract and total flavonoids of Pueraria root can counteract the memory acquisition impairment caused by scopolamine and the memory re-impairment caused by 40% ethanol in mice. Pueraria alcohol extract can also counteract the inhibition of operant conditioning in rats caused by scopolamine.

15. Effects on immune function

Pueraria root extract can enhance the function of macrophages in phagocytizing carbon particles. The decoction can enhance the ability of leukocytes to phagocytize Staphylococcus aureus in vitro. Pueraria root liquid, together with PHA or concanavalin A, can be used to co-culture hybrid and C3H pure mouse lymphocytes, which has the effect of promoting "lymph metastasis".

16. Other functions

Pueraria juice beverage can lower blood alcohol concentration and restore abnormal blood viscosity caused by ethanol to normal, and has the effect of sobering up. Intragastric administration of Pueraria alcohol extract has a significant antipyretic effect on fever caused by typhoid vaccine in rabbits. Large doses of puerarin and its compound can significantly reduce serum cholesterol levels;

Pueraria root decoction has the effect of first raising and then lowering blood sugar;

Pueraria root has estrogen-like effects and can increase the weight of the uterus in mice;

Pueraria root has the effect of capturing free radicals and resisting oxidation;

Gegenqinlian decoction has the effect of inhibiting Pneumococcus and Shigella in vivo experiments;

Pueraria root has certain anti-cancer effects, has a significant effect of inducing tumor necrosis factor, and has a toxicity-reducing and efficacy-enhancing effect on cisplatin.

Above we introduced what Pueraria root is. We know that Pueraria root has very high medicinal value. Eating Pueraria root regularly can protect our cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems and has antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and antipyretic effects. In addition, Pueraria root also has anticoagulant effects and the benefit of lowering blood pressure, so female friends during menstruation can eat Pueraria root.