Homemade loquat paste
1. Loquat washed and peeled off the skin, pull out the loquat core.
2 Put the loquat pulp into a small cooking pot, add sugar and mix well, marinate for 30 minutes, until pickled loquat juice.
Core the loquat. 2 Place the loquat flesh in a small saucepan, add the sugar and leave to marinate for 30 minutes, until the loquat juice is released.
3 will pickle loquat cooking pot on the heat, high heat boil, reduce the heat and simmer for about 40 minutes until the pulp becomes puree, the water completely evaporated, which should be constantly stirring in order to prevent sticking to the pot.
4 simmering loquat paste from the fire to cool thoroughly, into the wash and dry a good sealed jar, into the refrigerator to keep cold.
How to eat loquat paste
The best way to eat loquat paste is: half an hour to an hour after meals, contained in the mouth and slowly melt, rather than directly swallowed, and do not use water, so as to maximize its effectiveness. When all the chemical swallowed 15 minutes later, and then drink some warm water, 37 degrees of the best.
At night, half an hour to an hour before going to bed, eat like this again. Note that loquat paste is high in sugar and is not suitable for diabetics.
How does it work
The effects of homemade loquat paste are: lung heat to stop coughing and diarrhea. Moisturize the lungs to lower the qi. In the perspective of Chinese medicine, loquat flavor sweet and sour, the property is flat with some cool, but basically it is not cold or hot, is all the physique can eat.
Note on medication
Although homemade loquat paste is often taken as a medicine, but in fact, the Chinese medicine is not loquat but loquat leaf, loquat leaf is a kind of can clear the lungs heat, reduce the stomach qi, and on the irritability, thirst of the negative emotions also have the effect of relieving. But the production of loquat paste is the old leaves, not the new sprouted leaves, the old leaves are not toxic, but the new leaves and kernels have some trace of cyanide, the cyanide is slightly toxic, can not be eaten indiscriminately. So if you can not distinguish some loquat leaves, then choose the right loquat from the production of loquat paste, so as not to cause unnecessary accidents.
The main ingredient of homemade loquat paste loquat pulp, compared with the loquat leaf, loquat fruit effect is relatively weak, usually as food to take, the usual maintenance and conditioning of the body when consumed, so there is no way to cure, so it is really too much coughing, we have to go to the pharmacy to buy loquat paste.