Pueraria lobata

Pueraria lobata. Kudzu is a deciduous twining vine that spreads rapidly and covers everything in its path with a dense tangle of hairy stems and large trifoliate leaves. The leaves are alternate, on rather long petioles, and each leaflet is 4-7 in (10.2-17.8 cm) long, with the middle one the longest. The purple flowers are fragrant and borne in showy erect clusters (racemes) to 10 in (25.4 cm) long. The fruit is an elongate, flat legume. Kudzu can grow up to 1 ft (0.3 m) a day and the vine can reach more than 100 ft (30.5 m) in a season. It usually dies back to the ground in winter and persists there as a (sometimes) huge tuber which provides the energy to regrow very rapidly the following spring.

The indications of Pueraria lobata are Hypertension, Alcoholism, Angina pectoris.