A, loquat leaf effects and functions are as follows:

1, loquat leaf, also known as: loquat leaf

2, flavor attribution: bitter taste, nature of the flat; to the lungs, stomach meridian.

3, clearing heat, phlegm, cough common medicine

4, loquat leaf is a traditional cough and asthma commonly used medicines, phlegm, cough, and the stomach to lower the effect. Newly Revised Materia Medica" records, loquat leaves, "the main cough, not down to eat". The "Compendium of Materia Medica" records, "and the stomach to lower the qi, clearing heat to resolve the summer poison, treatment of foot qi (foot shin numbness, soreness, weakness, a vitamin deficiency disease, not Western medicine, fungal infections caused by foot qi)."

5, loquat leaf medicinal part of the loquat leaves, can be harvested throughout the year. The loquat leaves to seven or eight minutes dry, tied into a small handful, and then dry, remove impurities, brush the back of the leaf fluff, water spray, cut silk, dry, that is, raw loquat leaves; or with condensed honey mixed loquat silk, fried until not sticky, that is, for the honey-roasted loquat leaves. The phlegm is suitable for the honey-baked loquat leaves, and the stomach is suitable for the raw loquat leaves.

6, efficacy

(1), efficacy of phlegm cough, and stomach to lower the reverse.

(2) It is used for coughing, sputum yellow and thick, bitter mouth and dry throat caused by lung heat.

(3) It is used for vomiting caused by stomach heat.

Expanded Information:

p>1, cough effect: Wang Li-Wei et al. used xylene to mice ear swelling method, sulfur dioxide caused by cough in mice and guinea pigs cough model of sulfur dioxide spray to observe the loquat leaves of different isolated parts and single components of the anti-inflammatory and cough effect, the results show that loquat glucoside, ouabain acid and the total triterpene acid is the loquat leaves of the anti-inflammatory, cough effect of the main components.

2, anti-tumor effect: Chauds et al. examined the anti-tumor activity of loquat leaf alcohol extract, and found that loquat leaf triterpenic acid can inhibit the activity and expression of MMP-2 and MMP-9, and inhibit the metastasis and spread of lung cancer and other cancer cells.

3, antioxidant effect: loquat leaf flavonoids have strong in vivo and ex vivo antioxidant effect.

4, anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic effects.

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