Sophora flowers are edible and have the effect of cooling the blood, stopping bleeding, clearing the liver and cathartic fire.
Sophora belongs to the medicinal and food substances, can be eaten, and has a certain medicinal value. Sophora flowers taste bitter, slightly cold, return to the liver, large intestine meridian, has the effect of cooling blood to stop bleeding, clearing the liver and diarrhea.
Sophora can be used to treat various bleeding conditions caused by blood-heat paranoia (abnormal outflow of blood due to heat), such as blood in stool, hemorrhoids, dysentery, metrorrhagia (excessive menstrual flow or dripping), vomiting and epistaxis, etc. It can also be used to treat eye redness, distension, headache and dizziness caused by liver fire.
Sophora as a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, with gardenia viscera and bowels with the treatment, the effect is better, after decoction can be used, also can be fried charcoal into medicine, used for stopping bleeding.
It should be noted that the spleen and stomach cold and yin deficiency fever without real fire should be used with caution, its adverse effects are not clear. Sophora should be used under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, not blindly dispensed and taken on their own, so as not to affect the health of the body.