What are the taboos of drinking water boiled with loquat leaves?

Loquat is a relatively common plant, especially in the southern region. Because loquat is a delicious seasonal fruit, loquat has very good medicinal and health effects, especially using loquat leaves to boil water can play a good role in treating colds. Therefore, many people like to boil water with loquat leaves. However, what are the taboos of drinking loquat leaves boiled water? Let’s take a look at the explanation below.

Contraindications of boiling loquat leaves in water to relieve cough :

1. Be sure to brush the fluff clean, otherwise it will not only fail to cure the cough, but will make it worse!

2. Loquat leaves are bitter and refreshing, so use with caution if you have a cold cough or vomiting due to stomach cold!

3. Although the efficacy of boiled loquat leaves in water in treating cough is undeniable, everyone's physique, severity of symptoms and causes are different. If you blindly use boiled loquat leaves in water to treat your own or your family's cough and take it for a long time, it may actually delay the disease! If you take boiled loquat leaves in water for a period of time but do not see any relief in the cough symptoms, you should go to the hospital in time to avoid delaying the disease.

Cooking method 1 :

Prepare ingredients : 5 loquat leaves, 1 piece of rock sugar

1. Take 5-6 fresh loquat leaves, rinse off the dirt in running water, and use a brush to clean all the fluff on the back (note, the fluff must be brushed clean, otherwise it will aggravate the cough).

2. Put them in a basin, add water to cover the loquat leaves, soak for 15 minutes, rinse with running water, drain and set aside.

3. Prepare a piece of rock sugar, yellow rock sugar is best, then cut the leaves into pieces, put them into a cooking pot, pour in about 800 ml of water, cook over high heat, after the leaves are boiled, stir the floating leaves with chopsticks, then turn to medium or low heat.

4. Add a piece of rock sugar at this time and cook for 20 minutes. Do not open the lid immediately after cooking, continue to simmer for a while.

5. Pour out the loquat leaf water. It is still tea-colored at this time, but will turn into wine red after a while, with a faint fragrance of loquat leaves. The boiled water can be used as daily tea. You can take a small amount every day, 3-4 times is fine. It has a good effect in relieving cough and reducing phlegm.