Main effect: treating lung-heat cough, asthma, vomiting, thirst.

Main effects: moistening the lungs and lowering the qi; quenching thirst.

The therapeutic efficacy and function of loquat

Fruit: sweet and sour taste, flat nature; nucleus: bitter taste, flat nature, into the lung and stomach meridian;

Fruit: clearing lungs and generating fluids to quench thirst; nucleus, expectorant and relieving cough, harmonizing with the stomach and lowering rebelliousness;

Mainly used in the treatment of lung fever and cough, prolonged cough, dry throat and thirst and stomach qi deficiency and other conditions.

Applied to cough: loquat kernel 9 to 15 grams, pounded, add 3 slices of ginger, decocted in water, remove the dregs to take, 1 time in the morning and evening.

The fruit of loquat, a tree plant of the Rosaceae family. Varieties have two categories: red sand species and white sand species. China's East China, Central and South China, Southwest China and Shaanxi, Gansu, Taiwan and other places are distributed. Harvested in the spring, peeled off the skin, take the pulp fresh; can also use the fruit (even the seeds).

[Properties] Sweet, slightly acidic flavor, cool nature. It can moisturize the lungs to stop coughing, promote the production of fluids to quench thirst, and the stomach to lower the rebellious.

[Reference] The pulp contains sugar, protein, fat, pectin, carotene, vitamins B1 and C, tartaric acid, malic acid, citric acid and other ingredients.

[Usage] Used for yin deficiency and lung dryness, cough, or hemoptysis; gastric yin deficiency, dry throat and thirst, or qi loss and descending, dry vomiting without appetite.

[Usage] Raw food, boiled paste, or decoction.