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* Symptoms of poisoning: The fruit peel is said to be highly poisonous. Subcutaneous injection of the extract is fatal to frogs, lizards and white mice. The injection causes a brief increase in blood sugar and glucosuria in warm-blooded animals , followed by dyspnoea and a decrease in red blood cells. The seed meal, if consumed regularly, is said to cause facial edema and even death.
 
* Symptoms of poisoning: The fruit peel is said to be highly poisonous. Subcutaneous injection of the extract is fatal to frogs, lizards and white mice. The injection causes a brief increase in blood sugar and glucosuria in warm-blooded animals , followed by dyspnoea and a decrease in red blood cells. The seed meal, if consumed regularly, is said to cause facial edema and even death.
 
==Health Benefits and Uses of Styphnolobium japonicum==
 
==Health Benefits and Uses of Styphnolobium japonicum==
Dishes and teas made from fresh and dried flowers are used in traditional Chinese medicine. The flowers are said to have anti-hypertensive and anti-inflammatory effects.
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* Dishes and teas made from fresh and dried flowers are used in traditional Chinese medicine.  
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* The flowers are said to have anti-hypertensive and anti-inflammatory effects.
 
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Latest revision as of 05:23, 10 October 2021

Other Names : Japanese pagoda tree, Chinese scholar tree, pagoda tree, Sophora japonica
See also : Huai Hua Mi

Special Precautions of Styphnolobium japonicum

  • All parts of the plant except for the flowers are described as highly poisonous; the bark and seeds are mentioned, especially the peel of the fruit. The main active ingredients are 0.08% sophorabioside , rutin and others in the fruits, 2% sophoricoside in unripe fruits , and cytisine , toxalbumins and sophoramine in the seeds.
  • Symptoms of poisoning: The fruit peel is said to be highly poisonous. Subcutaneous injection of the extract is fatal to frogs, lizards and white mice. The injection causes a brief increase in blood sugar and glucosuria in warm-blooded animals , followed by dyspnoea and a decrease in red blood cells. The seed meal, if consumed regularly, is said to cause facial edema and even death.

Health Benefits and Uses of Styphnolobium japonicum

  • Dishes and teas made from fresh and dried flowers are used in traditional Chinese medicine.
  • The flowers are said to have anti-hypertensive and anti-inflammatory effects.