Loquat leaves are a well-known traditional Chinese herb due to their fragrant smell and slightly bitter taste. They can be made into various medicinal remedies, but many people don't know how to consume them. So, how to eat loquat leaves? Let's find out together!
How to eat loquat leaves
1. Loquat leaf porridge: Boil loquat leaves in water, remove the residue and extract the juice. Add the juice to rice and cook it into porridge. It can nourish the lungs, transform phlegm, and nourish the stomach. It is suitable for those with qi deficiency and yin deficiency and fever.
2. Mulberry leaf and loquat tea: Take 10 grams each of loquat leaves, wild chrysanthemum flowers, and mulberry leaves. Grind them into coarse powder and make tea. It can clear the liver, drain fire, dispel wind, and transform phlegm. It is suitable for symptoms such as sore throat, cough, wheezing, dry mouth and bitterness, high blood pressure, and dizziness caused by liver fire attacking the stomach. It is important to note that these three ingredients are cold and cool in nature. If there is abdominal pain and diarrhea after consumption, it should be stopped immediately. People with yang deficiency and fear of cold should use it with caution.
3. Loquat leaf and honey jujube soup: Wash the loquat leaves and wrap them in gauze. Add honey jujube, almonds, and platycodon to 3 bowls of water and cook until it reduces to about 1.5 bowls. Add an appropriate amount of rock sugar before drinking.
4. Loquat leaf and bamboo leaf tea: Brush off the fuzz from fresh loquat leaves and wash them together with bamboo leaves. Brew them with boiling water and cover for 15 minutes. Add an appropriate amount of white sugar or rock sugar before drinking. This formula should be avoided by those with wind-cold cough.
The benefits of loquat leaves
1. Clearing the lungs, transforming phlegm, and stopping cough
Used for lung heat and cough. The bitter taste of this herb can descend and clear lung heat. It is often used in combination with mulberry leaves and fritillary bulbs to treat lung heat cough. It can also be used for dry heat cough and asthma in combination with mulberry bark, anemarrhena, and dwarf lilyturf tuber. If the cough is due to long-term lung deficiency, it can be used in combination with donkey-hide gelatin and lily to nourish yin and moisten the lungs.
2. Descending rebellion and stopping vomiting
Used for vomiting due to stomach heat. This herb can clear stomach heat and descend stomach qi, thereby stopping vomiting and belching. It is often used in combination with tangerine peel and bamboo shavings. In addition, it can also be used for thirst and diabetes caused by heat disease, taking advantage of its ability to clear the stomach and relieve thirst.
3. Antitussive, expectorant, and asthma-relieving effects
The bitter almond glycosides contained in this herb can hydrolyze into hydrogen cyanide, which has antitussive effects. The decoction or ethyl acetate extract has expectorant and asthma-relieving effects. The volatile oil in the leaves also has a mild expectorant effect. However, some reports suggest that the antitussive effect of loquat leaves is strong, but the expectorant effect is relatively poor.
