Main efficacy: Treating cough and asthma due to lung heat, vomiting and polydipsia. Main effects: moistening lung and reducing qi; Quench thirst.
Discussion on the efficacy of loquat by famous experts
1. "Ben Feng Jingyuan": Everyone must be familiar with it. It has the function of quenching thirst and moistening the five internal organs. If it tastes sour, it can help the liver cut the spleen and make people full of diarrhea.
2. Meng Hao: beneficial to the five internal organs.
3. Cui Yuxi's "Food Classics": reducing qi and stopping vomiting.
4. "Daily Chemicals": Treating lung qi, moistening five internal organs, lowering qi, stopping vomiting and quenching thirst.
5. "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": Treating lung flaccidity, vomiting blood, coughing, spitting and wheezing. It also treats infantile convulsion and fever.
Taboo "Life Taste Diet Spectrum": Eating more helps to dry dampness and produce phlegm, and people with spleen deficiency and diarrhea should not eat.
Therapeutic effect and function of loquat
Fruit: sweet and sour, flat; Nucleus: bitter taste, flat nature, entering the lung and stomach meridians; Fruit: clearing lung, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst; Nuclear, expectorant and antitussive, regulating stomach and descending adverse; It is mainly used for treating cough due to lung heat, persistent cough, dry throat and thirst, and insufficient stomach qi. Used for cough: loquat core 9 ~ 15g, mashed, ginger 3 pieces, decocted in water to remove residue, morning and evening 1 time. The fruit of loquat, a tree of Rosaceae. There are two varieties: red sand and white sand. Distributed in East China, South China, Southwest China, Shaanxi, Gansu and Taiwan Province Province. Harvesting in spring, peeling for fresh use; Fruit (including seeds) can also be used.
[Attribute] Sweet, slightly sour and cool. It can moisten lung, relieve cough, promote fluid production, quench thirst, regulate stomach and reduce adverse flow.
[Reference] The pulp contains sugar, protein, fat, pectin, carotene, vitamin B 1, c, tartaric acid, malic acid and citric acid.
【 Usage 】 Used for lung dryness due to yin deficiency, cough or hemoptysis; Deficiency of stomach yin, dry throat and thirst, or loss of breath, vomiting and aversion to food.
[Usage] Eat raw, boil cream, or make soup. [Attachment] Loquat Zhike Decoction: Loquat (fruit) 100g, peeled in half, mashed with stones and decocted in water. Loquat fruit includes pulp and stone. The former can moisten lung and relieve cough, while the latter can eliminate phlegm and relieve cough, while * * * plays the role of moistening lung and eliminating phlegm, relieving cough and reducing qi. Used for dryness and heat of lung meridian, cough and expectoration.
Garden application: Loquat tree is neat and beautiful, with large shade leaves, which is a good ornamental tree species in the southern courtyard. It can be planted in clumps or in groups on the edge of lawns, Chi Pan by the lake, hillsides and other sunny places.
In the Yuan Dynasty, Jia Ming mentioned in "Dietary Instructions" that "wheat should not be eaten with millet and loquat".
Suitable for ordinary people.
1. Patients with lung flaccidity, cough, chest tightness and excessive phlegm, strain vomiting blood and scurvy are especially suitable for eating;
2. People with diarrhea due to spleen deficiency and diabetics should not eat.