Loquat leaves are the dried leaves of loquat, a plant of the Rosaceae family. Mainly produced in Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hubei and other places. It can be harvested throughout the year, and when it is dried to 70% or 80%, it is tied into small handfuls and then dried in the sun.

The Story of Loquat Leaves and Zheng Banqiao

During the Qing Dynasty, the county magistrate Zheng Banqiao had a rough life, at the age of 73 over the age of old, at that time can be considered a long life.

Zheng Banqiao in his later years, has been living in seclusion thatched cottage. One winter, suddenly suffered from a cough, but he hated to take medicine, the disease can not be cured over and over again. He spent the whole day in his own courtyard, just at this time, since the usual drinking tea just run out, and can not buy tea in a timely manner, the courtyard planted loquat tree branches and leaves green, no choice but to pick a few loquat leaves, wipe off the white hairs on the leaves, and then rinse water as a tea to drink, who knew that after drinking coughing a little bit better, and then continuously drinking a few days, coughing disease was cured. Zheng Banqiao inadvertently found that loquat leaves can cure cough, often talk about this with friends, and gradually spread to the world.

Dietary therapy of loquat leaves

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Recipe: Fresh loquat leaves: 1000g. Honey: appropriate amount

Method of Preparation:

1 Fresh loquat leaves (washed and dehairing) 1000 grams, add 8000 milliliters of water.

2 decoction for 3 hours and then filter the dregs, and then concentrated into a paste, blended into the right amount of honey and mixed, stored for spare.

Dosage: 10 grams to 15 grams each time, twice a day.

Effects: Clearing away heat from the lungs, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.

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Loquat leaf is the fruit loquat leaves, belongs to the plant for the Rosaceae batch loquat genus, mainly distributed in the provinces south of the Yangtze River, as well as Shaanxi, Gansu, Guizhou, Yunnan, Taiwan. For evergreen trees, leaf blade leathery, petiole short or sessile, gray-brown tomentum. Flowering period 1O December, fruiting period May-June, generally domestic species.

Concoction of loquat leaves

Raw loquat leaves.After the loquat leaves are harvested, the leaf lint is brushed off, washed and shredded and dried in the sun. In clinical application, the raw product is mainly used for lung-heat cough.

Honey-roasted loquat leaves.Take the honey diluted with the right amount of water, add loquat leaf silk mix, smothered, and then put into the pot, the fire fried until slightly yellow, take out and let cool that is to become. For every kilogram of loquat leaves, add 20Og of honey. honey-roasted loquat leaves main treatment of lung dry cough.

Fried loquat leaves.Take the net loquat leaves into the pot, stir-fry with mild fire until slightly charred, with aroma, take out and let it cool. Stir-fried loquat leaves are often used to harmonize the stomach and stop vomiting.

The main functions and actions of loquat leaves

Loquat leaf is one of the commonly used traditional Chinese medicine tablets, in Chinese medicine clinic, widely used in the treatment of lung heat cough, lung dry cough. For example, we are familiar with the Chinese patent medicine Chuanbei loquat syrup, Niancimen honey refined Chuanbei loquat cream and so on. In folklore, some people use raw loquat leaves decoction water, used to treat cough. However, due to the lack of knowledge of concoctions, directly with no hair of the raw loquat leaves decoction water, often lead to the pharyngeal itching, cough aggravation of the phenomenon. This is mainly due to the loquat leaves on the villi stimulation. Therefore, with the treatment of lung-heat cough, must use the raw loquat leaves have been dehairing. For the treatment of lung-heat cough, it is often used together with Aster, Donghua, Almond and Sangbai Pi. For the treatment of prolonged cough with dryness of the lungs and dry cough without phlegm, it is appropriate to use roasted loquat leaves, which are often used clinically together with Radix Panax Ginseng, Radix Phellodendron Bidentata, Platycodon Grandiflorus and Fructus Schisandrae chinensis. For the treatment of vomiting, regurgitation and nausea caused by gastric fever, it is suitable to use fried products, with bamboo and gypsum.

Note on use!

Loquat leaves for the cough for lung heat, lung dry cough, also known as the folk said "fire cough", because of its nature of cold, cold cough should not be used.

Loquat Leaf is the leaf of loquat in the genus Loquat, family Rosaceae. Mainly used for clearing lung and resolving phlegm, expelling phlegm and calming asthma, and relieving vomiting.

Leaf blade leathery; petiole short or subsessile, 6-10 mm long, gray-brown tomentose; stipules subulate, hairy; leaf blade lanceolate, oblanceolate, obovate, or long elliptic, 12-30 cm long, 3-9 cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, base cuneate or attenuate into the petiole, margin sparsely serrate distally, shiny and wrinkled above, densely gray-brown tomentose below and on petiole, lateral veins 11-21 pairs, the Panicles terminal, the common pedicel and pedicels densely rust-colored tomentose; flowers 1.2-2 cm in diameter; calyx tube shallowly cupular, sepals triangular-ovate, outside rust-colored tomentose; petals white, oblong or ovate, 5-9 mm long, 4-6 mm wide, base clawed, rust-colored tomentose; stamens 20, styles 5, free, stigma head-shaped, glabrous.

The leaves of loquat, at a very young age, know that it can be used as medicine, as long as a cough, will pick a few loquat leaves, with a brush to wash the hairs off, water rinse clean, put inside the pot of medicine, add a few rock sugar together to simmer, sheng out of the soup and drink it, cough can be relieved.

Loquat, because its leaves resemble a pipa, so the name harmonizes. The loquat tree flowers in November and February and produces fruit in March and April of the following year.

Loquat leaf: from the plant Loquat, family Rosaceae, dried leaves for medicine. The loquat tree is a small evergreen tree, tall and stout; the leaves are leathery, lanceolate, obovate, acute or acuminate at the apex, cuneate or attenuate into petioles at the base, remotely serrate at the margins, wrinkled on the upper surfaces, and densely gray-brown tomentose on the lower surfaces and petioles; the panicles are terminal, and the flowers are white.

Pei Pa Koa Leaf: Slightly cold and bitter in nature; belongs to the lung and stomach meridians. Effects: Clearing the lung and relieving cough, reducing rebelliousness and vomiting. It is used in treating lung-heat cough, retching and shortness of breath, stomach-heat and vomiting, and irritable heat and thirst.

Loquat leaves, which are much used in respiratory diseases, have the effect of suppressing cough, expectorant and asthma. In addition, in the clinical, digestive system diseases leaves commonly used.

Compendium of Materia Medica" records: loquat leaves, the treatment of lung and stomach diseases, most of them to take its lower gas function ear. Gas under the fire down phlegm, and the inverse is not inverse, vomit is not vomit, thirst is not thirsty, cough is not cough carry on. Therefore, loquat leaf is bitter and cold in nature, can lower the gas to clear the lungs to stop coughing, used for lung-heat cough, with Scutellaria baicalensis, Psidium guajava, such as phlegm cough; loquat leaf such as the stomach meridian, good to clear the stomach heat, lower the stomach gas is easy to stop the vomiting, can be equipped with ginger, half-summer, etc., to strengthen the power to stop vomiting.

In terms of proprietary medicines, the most familiar one is Chuanbei Pei Pa Koa Ointment, in which loquat leaves are used. The loquat leaves are roasted with honey, which enhances its ability to relieve coughs, resolve phlegm, and calm asthma.

There is a saying that the new leaves of loquats are poisonous and the old leaves are non-toxic. This is obviously not true, both new and old leaves are non-toxic. However, a layer of hair on the loquat leaves can make the cough worse if you don't get rid of it.