What are the benefits of boiling loquat leaves in water?

Loquat is a common fruit in daily life. Loquat not only tastes good, but also has high nutritional value. Regular consumption is very good for the body and can also prevent lung diseases. Not only loquat can be eaten, but loquat leaves can also be eaten. Water boiled with loquat leaves has the effect of moisturizing the lungs and treating coughs. It is very effective in relieving cough and sore throat.

What are the benefits of boiling loquat leaves in water?

1. Strengthen your body

Usually, people boil loquat leaves in water and drink it, which can allow the human body to absorb rich nutrients, vitamins and minerals. They can promote human metabolism and improve the body's disease resistance. Drinking it regularly is very beneficial to enhancing human fitness.

2. Moisturize the lungs and relieve cough

Boil loquat leaves in water and drink it regularly to moisten the lungs and relieve coughs. It can clear away lung heat and relieve lung dryness, eliminate inflammation in the trachea, dilute phlegm, speed up phlegm discharge, and effectively reduce the occurrence of common respiratory diseases such as dry cough and tracheitis.

3. Prevent influenza

Loquat leaves have strong antiviral ability and can eliminate a variety of pathogens in the human body. In the season when influenza is prevalent, drinking water boiled with loquat leaves can reduce the harm of influenza virus to the human body and can effectively prevent the occurrence of influenza.

4. Detoxification and Anti-cancer

Boiling loquat leaves in water and drinking it can also remove various toxins accumulated in the human body and reduce their damage to human skin tissue cells. In addition, regularly boiling loquat leaves in water and drinking it can inhibit the activity of various viruses in the human body, effectively prevent tissue cells from becoming cancerous, and play a good role in cancer prevention and treatment.

Taboos of drinking boiled loquat leaves

Before drinking loquat leaves boiled in water, you must remove the tiny hairs on the back, because these tiny hairs have a significant irritating effect on the human oral mucosa. If you do not remove them and boil the water directly to drink it, it will cause inflammation in the mouth, or cause severe coughing and vomiting, which is very harmful to human health.

Ingredients

Recipe calories: 79.4 (kcal)

Ingredients

5 loquat leaves

Excipients

1 piece of rock sugar

Method steps

1. Take 5-6 fresh loquat leaves, rinse them in running water to remove dirt, and use a brush to clean all the fluff on the back;

2. Put the leaves in a basin, add water to cover the leaves, soak for 15 minutes, and then rinse with running water;

3. Prepare a rock candy. It is best to cut the leaves of yellow rock candy into pieces, put them into a cooking pot, pour about 800 ml of water, and cook over high heat. After the leaves are boiled, use chopsticks to stir the leaves that float on the surface, and then turn to medium-low heat.

4. Add a piece of rock sugar 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. Adults can also use it. It has a good effect in relieving cough and reducing phlegm.

Precautions

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