Stone olive (Pholidota chinensis Lindl.), also known as stone fairy peach, its effects are as follows:

Stone fairy peach taste sweet, slightly bitter, cool, attributed to the lung, kidney meridian. It has the function of nourishing yin, clearing the lungs, inducing dampness and eliminating blood stasis. It is used for dizziness, headache, cough, vomiting blood, dreaming, dysentery, leucorrhea, noma.

For the function and main treatment of Shi Xian Tao, there are more records in the literature." Treating the interior, resolving phlegm and relieving cough." (《生草药性备要》); "Clearing heat from the lungs, nourishing the lung yin, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Treating internal injuries and coughs, and heat accumulation in children." (Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine II).

Treating lung-heat cough, urinary incontinence, damp-heat swelling, pediatric chancre (Guangxi Chinese Herbal Medicine); "treating internal injuries and vomiting of blood; treating asthma and coughing; treating heart-qi pain; treating rheumatism and bone pain; treating red-white dysentery, wind-fire toothache." (Lingnan Herbal Medicine Record); fresh or dried peach decoction for internal use, can be used to treat tuberculosis, coughing up blood, chronic cough, gastroenteritis, chronic gastritis, bone-setting injuries (Guangzhou troops, "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbs");

cough, sore throat, external use to treat traumatic injury and hemorrhage (Wenshan Chinese Herbal Medicine). It is also used in the treatment of stomach and duodenum ("Hunan Drugs"); fever paralysis, lumbar pain, hot drenching, wind-fire toothache, and sore throat due to deficiency fire ("Fujian Chinese Herbs"); and chronic osteomyelitis ("Selected Surgery from Quanzhan").

Expanded Information:

p>While the stone olive has so many roles, but there are some contraindications when consuming:

The stone olive is cold, weak spleen and stomach patients are not suitable for long-term use of this thing has a certain acid astringent astringent function, if you eat at the beginning of the cough in the external sensation cough may make the cough can not be good, so the total health care can be, but remember to not eat too much.

In addition, the stone olive is warm tonic, tonic ability is more robust, so for some Yang Sheng people are not suitable for consumption of stone olives, often dry mouth, dry stools is also not suitable for consumption of stone olives.

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