Renhua Pueraria

Renhua Pueraria

　　Pueraria

　　Pueraria, scientifically known as Pueraria lobata. It has a cool nature and a sweet, slightly pungent flavor, offering various benefits such as relieving exterior symptoms and reducing fever, promoting body fluid production, facilitating rash eruption, raising yang energy, and alleviating diarrhea. It can treat a range of ailments including exogenous fever and headache, stiff neck due to high blood pressure, thirst, diabetes, blocked measles rash, heat rashes, and diarrhea. Ordinary pueraria tends to be tough with strong fiber, whereas Chenjiang, due to its unique soil conditions, produces pueraria with thick, tender flesh that is not fibrous, leaves no residue when eaten, and can be consumed as food or used medicinally.

　　Pueraria has a long history of cultivation in Xinshao Town, Renhua, mainly distributed across villages such as Chenjiang, Tujing, Dongshan, Shuikou, and Huanglangshui. The planting area covers nearly 2,000 mu, with a total annual yield reaching 2,400 tons. The harvest takes place in late autumn and early winter, and the produce can be stored for up to one year. Currently, the residue-free pueraria from our town accounts for most of the pueraria sold in major markets across Shaoguan City. Its current market price ranges from 3 to 4 yuan per kilogram. Pueraria combines both edible and medicinal uses and also serves as one of the raw materials for starch production.