Loquat leaf is a kind of commonly used traditional Chinese medicine, with a large loquat leaf dried into medicine, need to brush off the fuzz, otherwise people cough. It is bitter and cold, with the function of lowering the qi, clearing the lungs and stopping the cough. It can be used to treat lung-heat cough, and can be used with scutellaria, raritus skin and other medicines to clear the lungs and resolve phlegm and stop coughing. It has the function of clearing lung and stomach heat, lowering qi and resolving phlegm, and is used for lung-heat dry cough, stomachache, nosebleed, stomach heat and vomiting; loquat leaf has strong cough-relieving effect and poor expectorant effect. It is often combined with other herbs, such as "Chuanbei loquat paste".

Loquat leaf has no antibacterial effect, and can stimulate the growth of Staphylococcus aureus. It has been reported that ethanol cold-soaked extract of loquat leaf has anti-inflammatory effect on foot swelling caused by rat carob gum localized, warm-soaked extract localized or administered by gavage, and cold-soaked extract administered by gavage have no anti-inflammatory effect.

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Experienced old pharmacist told us:

Loquat leaves, that is, we eat in the food side of the fruit loquat leaves, loquat is Rosaceae, loquat genus plants. Evergreen small trees, up to 10 meters high;

Leaf blade leathery, lanceolate, oblanceolate, obovate or elliptic-oblong, 12-30 centimeters long, 3-9 centimeters wide. Abaxially densely covered with rust-colored tomentum. Used as a cough suppressant medicine, usually, harvested in the fall, around the time of frost.

This harvested, the treatment is more difficult, he is not directly into the medicine, his leaf back, there are thorns. The downy, the terminology is called downy, that has to be dealt with, usually with a brush, after drying with a brush to brush off the downy. That has to be removed, the fuzz. It's a burr. If you don't remove that, that has an irritation to the throat that causes this cough. That's it.

Piece by piece, boiled herbs, he dealt with the concoction of the part is quite troublesome, and then that the whole leaf, he has to cut, after the treatment of the leaves after the villi removed, cut into no more than seventy millimeters, cut, after that, you want to raw products.

General cough also need to use honey system.

This a lot of cough medicine, all to honey. But this thing is a little more special, the general add honey cough medicine to add honey twenty-five percent. For this medicine, you want to make it with honey after the dosage than the general are larger, his dosage can be up to thirty-five percent, there is to say that after the fried. I want him to be even, to thirty-five percent, you can fry over. You machine frying manual frying, which kind of. Thirty. Can't be any less. When can't less it, he this to you cut after or the surface area of the leaf is particularly large, after you fried is, some leaves he can't see the honey, that is to use a larger amount, that's the point. The honey system this more special this situation generally reach thirty-five percent.

After frying the pan, the surface with a little burnt yellow, the honey on his surface after you hand pinch, a little like sticky hands, after drying. A kind of brownish yellow color, and then dry after he is not sticky hands, this is a special point he used to cough.

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Summary of the experience of the old pharmacist loquat leaves boiled in water with the following: (concocted points)

1. loquat leaves need to be harvested before and after the frost season, the quality is good.

2. Because the leaves of the loquat are densely covered with thorns (downy hairs), they need to be carefully brushed off one by one after drying in the sun, otherwise they will make people cough, which is a difficult and complicated process. If the hairs are not removed, it is a bad medicine.

3. Cut the silk for 70 millimeters wide. Only easy to decoct, conducive to the efficacy of the drug.

4. The amount of honey used in the honey process needs to be 35%, which is more than the normal regulation of 25%.

5. Finished products need to be evenly distributed honey, hand pinch soft, let go of non-stick, dry and crispy. The color is brownish-yellow, and the aroma is strong.

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(Thirty years of experience in Chinese medicine concoction teacher. Reprints need to be linked.)