Can you eat saponaria?

Soapwort rice, known in Chinese medicine as saponaria, is generally not used as a food because it is poisonous. However, soapberry can be used as a traditional Chinese medicine. Soappods are effective in expelling phlegm and relieving cough, opening and closing the orifices (opening the head orifices), and killing worms and dispersing lumps (killing worms and dispersing lumps). Soapberry pods contain saponin is toxic, the use of the doctor’s diagnosis under the guidance of the correct use, patients do not use without authorization. Soap pods for the legume soap pods plant soap pods fruit or sterile fruit, with expectorant cough, open and close the mouth, kill insects and dissipate the efficacy. It is mainly used to treat phlegm cough and asthma fullness, stroke and mouth silence, phlegm and saliva congestion (abnormal phlegm, excessive production of saliva), fainting and speechlessness, epilepsy, laryngeal paralysis (redness, swelling and pain in the pharynx, or dryness, foreign body sensation, or itching and discomfort in the pharynx, and difficulty in swallowing) and other medical conditions. Saponin contained in soap pods is toxic, and excessive dosage can lead to toxic reactions. Lead to gastric mucosa is destroyed and absorption of toxicity, can appear dry throat, epigastric fullness and burning sensation, nausea, vomiting, irritability, diarrhea and other symptoms. Therefore, the usage and dosage of soap pods, need to be used under the guidance of the doctor’s diagnosis, patients do not use without authorization.