The efficacy of jujube leaves

The date tree is a tree that grows dates. Of course, in addition to the edible fruits produced by the jujube tree, its leaves also have certain medicinal value. For example, the jujube tree leaves can achieve many effects and functions such as stopping vomiting and treating prickly heat. They can also be used to treat diseases such as fever in children. Next, I will introduce to you in detail the effects and functions of jujube tree leaves!

1. The efficacy and function of jujube leaves

1. Medicinal value of jujube leaves

Jujube leaves contain various medicinal ingredients such as berberine and berberine, which have a certain anesthetic effect. They are mild and non-toxic, and have many functions such as clearing away heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and relieving pain. They can be used to treat various diseases such as children's fever and sores. During treatment, they can be decocted and taken, or the decocted medicine can be used to directly wash the affected area.

2. Jujube leaves can stop vomiting

Soothing the stomach and stopping vomiting is one of the important functions of jujube leaves. When people usually have nausea or vomiting, you can prepare one or two ounces of dried jujube leaves, two fen of Patchouli and cloves, grind them together into powder, take out two cents each time, add an appropriate amount of water and half a fen of ginger and boil it directly. After boiling, remove the ginger and take it directly with the residue.

3. Jujube leaves can cure prickly heat

Jujube leaves can clear away heat and detoxify, and can also relieve itching and pain. When people get prickly heat due to high temperatures in summer, they can directly use jujube leaves for treatment. During treatment, you can grind the jujube leaves into fine powder, mix them together with kudzu powder, and then apply them directly to the areas where prickly heat grows. This can make the prickly heat disappear quickly. If there is no kudzu powder, you can also use jujube leaves to make a decoction, and then wash the affected area after decocting, which can also play an important role in eliminating prickly heat.

2. Chemical composition

The leaves contain wax alcohol, protoopine and berberine, with a total amount of 0.2%.

The leaves of Ziziphus vulgaris, a plant of the same genus, contain an ingredient that can completely anesthetize the taste buds for a short period of time. The effectiveness of this ingredient remains unchanged after the dried leaves have been stored for 2 years, but the leaves are non-toxic to livestock.

3. Selection

① For treating children with persistent hot temper: a handful of jujube leaves (cut), one liang of ephedra (remove roots and nodes), a handful of scallion whites (cut), and one fen of fragrant beans.

For the above medicines, boil a large cup of boy's urine until it is reduced to five parts. Remove the residue and take two he of the warm medicine for children aged three or four years old, three to four times a day. According to the size of the child, add or subtract the amount as you wish.

② Treat nausea and vomiting: 1 liang of dried jujube leaves, 5 qian of patchouli, 2 (1) fen of cloves.

Grind the above medicines into powder.

Take two cents each time, add a small cup of water and half a cent of ginger, boil until six parts are left, then remove the ginger. Take it hot with the residue at any time.