What are the effects and functions of loquat leaves?

Loquat is a fruit we often eat, and loquat is its leaves. Loquat leaves can also be used as a Chinese herbal medicine to treat some cough diseases, and have the effects of relieving cough, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, and removing athlete's foot, etc. Loquat leaves are widely used, and everyone can learn more about its effects.

Benefits of loquat leaves:

Treats lung heat, phlegm and cough, hemoptysis, epistaxis, and vomiting due to stomach heat.

① "Bielu": It is used to treat continuous vomiting and to relieve gas.

② "Compendium of Materia Medica for Food Therapy": Boil the juice and drink it to cure thirst, treat cough caused by heat in the lungs, lung wind sores, and sores on the chest and face.

③ "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": It can stop cough, eliminate phlegm and relieve asthma, break up phlegm, dissolve stubborn phlegm, disperse wheezing and stop shortness of breath.

④ "Compendium of Materia Medica": Soothes the stomach and lowers qi, clears away heat and relieves summer heat, and treats athlete's foot.

⑤ "Bencao Zaixin": Clears lung qi, reduces lung fire, relieves cough and resolves phlegm, stops vomiting blood and choking blood, and treats carbuncle, impotence, heat and toxicity.

⑥ "Anhui Medicinal Materials": Decoction is used to wash abscesses, ulcers, and hemorrhoids.

The role of loquat leaves:

1. Antitussive, expectorant and antiasthmatic effects: The hydrocyanic acid produced by the hydrolysis of amygdalin in the body has an antitussive effect. The water decoction or ethyl acetate extract has expectorant and antiasthmatic effects. The volatile oil contained in its leaves has a mild expectorant effect. There are also reports that loquat leaves have a strong antitussive effect but a poor expectorant effect.

2. Antibacterial effect: Experiments have shown that the water decoction or ethyl acetate extract of this product has antibacterial effects on white or aureus Staphylococcus, Pneumococcus, and Shigella flexneri. However, some people believe that loquat leaves have no antibacterial effect and can stimulate the growth of Staphylococcus aureus.