As food, it is recommended that people with allergies and those with poor gastrointestinal function should not eat or eat less acacia flowers; as a traditional Chinese medicine, it should be taken with caution by people with cold spleen and stomach.
Sophora flowers are the flowers or buds of the deciduous tree Sophora japonica of the legume family, which can be eaten and used as traditional Chinese medicine. Sophora flowers contain nutrients: rutin, quercetin, ellagitannin, acacia diol, vitamin A and other substances.
As a traditional Chinese medicine with the same source of food and medicine, acacia flowers are bitter and cool in nature, non-toxic, and are attributed to the liver and large intestine meridians, with the efficacy of cooling the blood, stopping bleeding, clearing the liver and cathartic fire. It is used in treating blood in stool, hemorrhoidal blood, bloody diarrhea, bleeding, hematemesis, epistaxis, liver-heat and red eyes, headache and dizziness. People with cold spleen and stomach should not take it.
Sophora japonica is rich in dietary fiber, relatively indigestible, so for people with poor gastrointestinal function, need to eat less or not eat. And have allergic phenomenon of the crowd is not to eat.
Normal people moderate consumption of acacia flowers is safer, can be eaten without fear; as a traditional Chinese medicine treatment of disease, need to be used under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner.