When you have a cold and cough, you should not forget a medicine called loquat cough syrup, which is sweet and delicious and has a particularly good cough relieving effect. Its raw material is called loquat. Loquat fruit is a kind of yellow apricot fruit, which can be used as medicine or as fruit. Someone can't help but ask, is loquat fruit delicious? Let Bian Xiao give you an answer today.

Loquat fruit is the fruit of loquat tree. It tastes sweet and looks like apricots. Loquat fruit is soft and juicy, sweet and sour. With the development and application of biotechnology, loquat tastes sweet and the meat is delicate. March and April are the season of abundance every year. Loquat fruit is rich in various nutrients needed by human body, and it is a nutritious health fruit. The main functions of loquat are: treating cough and asthma caused by lung heat, vomiting and polydipsia. Main effects: moistening lung and reducing qi; Quench thirst. Fruit: clearing lung, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst; Nuclear, expectorant and antitussive, regulating stomach and descending adverse; Can be used for treating cough due to lung heat, persistent cough, dry throat and thirst, and stomach qi deficiency.

There are wild plants in Sichuan and Hubei, and they are cultivated all over the country. Loquat is widely distributed in China, but as an economic cultivation, it is limited to Dongting East, Xishan, Guangfu, Nantong, Haimen and Yangzhou in Suzhou. The output of Dongting East and Xishan Mountain accounts for more than 90% of the whole province, and it is one of the famous loquat fruit producing areas in China.

Li Shizhen, a medical scientist in Ming Dynasty, recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Loquat is a good medicine for harmonizing stomach, reducing qi, clearing heat and relieving summer heat." Loquat was rated as the "crown of fruit" because of its magical effect, and was often used as a tribute in history. The flowers and leaves of loquat can be used as medicine. Loquat leaves have the functions of clearing away lung-heat, regulating stomach, lowering qi and resolving phlegm, and are important drugs for treating lung-qi cough.

Lin Kaichun, a sage in Xiao Yun, was edited by the Hanlin Academy during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. He was a political advisor to Hu Guangyou, a political advisor in central Zhejiang, and a deputy envoy of Hu Guang. There are many verses describing loquat cultivation in his manuscript "Collection of laymen in Yunshan" (a collection of history, art and literature). There are 260 kinds of prescriptions in Yunshan College, Miaomiao, Lincaichun, Xiao Yun, and most of them use loquat leaves as medicine. Thus, Xiao Yun was rich in loquat in the Ming Dynasty, and its efficacy was well known.

Loquat is the earliest ripe fruit variety in a year. High-quality loquat has large fruit, few stones, orange peel, soft and juicy pulp, moderate sweet and sour taste, unique flavor and rich nutrition, and has the effects of clearing away heat, moistening lung, relieving cough and invigorating stomach. High-quality loquat has quietly entered the high-grade fruit market, not only selling high, but also selling well. Planting loquat has a broad market prospect.