Pueraria Lobata – Therapeutic properties and benefits
Kudzu does not yet invade the rays of herbal medicine but this plant is very invasive! It is a climbing plant that grows at high speed (up to 20 m per season) and covers everything on its way (vegetation, habitation etc.). In the same family as the bean (Leguminosae), the plant wraps with its woody stems around any support, it is also called the kudzu vine. Its Latin name is Pueraria lobata. The plant is edible: its flower is cooked like the zucchini flower, in donuts. The young leaves can be consumed as salad. The root, which can reach 2 meters, makes it possible to obtain, after grinding in water and filtration. Its medicinal use is particularly interesting: the root of kudzu provides effective components in smoking cessation or alcoholic. It allows alcohol and tobacco cessation by reducing drug consumption (in the broad sense). Kudzu is an anti-alcohol and anti-tobacco plant. The treatment of addiction is possible thanks to the flavonoids (isoflavones) it contains. Puerarin, di...