Eriobotrya japonica leaves have the effects of clearing away lung-heat, relieving cough, reducing adverse reactions and stopping vomiting, and have curative effects on cough due to lung heat, dyspnea due to qi adverse reactions, vomiting due to stomach heat, heat annoyance and thirst. Modern research has found that loquat leaves contain triterpenoids, volatile oil, flavonoids, sesquiterpenes and other components. Drinking loquat leaf water can play a role in diminishing inflammation, relieving cough, regulating immunity, and resisting oxidation. When the loquat leaves are boiled, they need to be wrapped in clean gauze first, and then boiled in water. In addition, people with stomach cold vomiting and cough due to wind cold should not drink loquat leaf water.
Loquat leaves are also helpful to some people who retch after drinking. For people who often drink, it is well known that if they drink too much, it is easy to have symptoms of retching, which is very painful. In this case, this situation can be effectively suppressed by soaking loquat leaves in water, so that the stomach is smooth and comfortable and helps to fall asleep. At the same time, loquat leaves also have the function of stopping vomiting, which can also be used for some people who want to vomit because of drinking.
Loquat leaves can also be used for skin care. For some people who often stay up late, many pimples and comedones often appear on their faces. At this time, hot compress with loquat leaf water can effectively eliminate it, and drinking loquat leaf water can effectively alleviate it. One of the functions of loquat leaves is to moisten the lungs and throat, which is a good medicine for some people or occupations who often use the pharynx. After excessive use of the voice, the throat will be strained to a certain extent, leading to uncomfortable symptoms, and drinking loquat leaves can play a certain role in relieving and making the voice more comfortable.
Loquat leaves contain a substance called amygdalin, which can clear lung heat, prevent wind-heat colds, relieve cough and phlegm, and stop diarrhea and vomiting. If almond oil is extracted from loquat leaves, it can also be made into cough cream or cough syrup to treat cough. If fresh loquat leaves are washed, chopped and fried, and a little salt or rice wine is added, it is beneficial to human body and can treat male prostatitis, arthritis, scapulohumeral periarthritis and other diseases.