This product is the leaf of the evergreen small tree plant loquat (Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.) from the Rosaceae family. It is cultivated in most regions of the country, mainly produced in Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hubei, and other areas. It can be harvested throughout the year, dried in the sun, brushed to remove hairs, and used raw or honey-fried after being cut into shreds.

bubble_chart Properties and Meridians

Bitter, slightly cold. Act on lung and stomach meridians.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Clearing the lung and resolving phlegm to relieve cough, downbearing counterflow to stop vomiting.

bubble_chart Indications

1. Used for lung heat cough. This herb has a bitter taste that can descend, and a cold nature that can clear, descending lung qi to relieve cough. It is often combined with Mulberry Leaf, Peucedanum, etc.; for treating dryness-heat cough and asthma, it is combined with White Mulberry Root-Bark, Anemarrhena, Coastal Glehnia Root, etc.; if it is lung deficiency chronic cough disease, it is combined with Donkey-hide Gelatin, Lily Bulb, and other yin-nourishing and lung-moistening herbs.
2. Used for stomach heat vomiting and hiccups. This herb can clear stomach heat and descend stomach qi to stop vomiting and hiccups, often combined with tangerine peel, Bamboo Shavings, etc. In addition, it can also be used for Rebing thirst and consumptive thirst, utilizing its ability to clear the stomach and quench thirst.

bubble_chart Documentation

1. Bielu: "The master's choking does not stop, lowering qi."
2. Bencao Gangmu: "Harmonizing the stomach and descending qi, clearing summerheat toxins, treating beriberi." "Loquat leaf, treating lung and stomach diseases, mostly utilizing its function of lowering qi. When qi descends, fire is reduced and phlegm is smoothed, thus those who are rebellious are not rebellious, those who vomit do not vomit, those who are thirsty are not thirsty, and those who cough do not cough."

bubble_chart Usage and Dosage

Decoct 5-10g for oral use. Use honey-fried for relieving cough, and use raw for stopping vomiting.

bubble_chart Modern Pharmacology

This product contains volatile oils (mainly citronellol and farnesol), saponins, ursolic acid, oleanolic acid, bitter apricot seed glycosides, tannins, vitamins B and C, and pear alcohol. Animal experiments have shown that it has antitussive, antiasthmatic, and grade I expectorant effects; the decoction has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus in vitro, and ursolic acid has anti-inflammatory effects.