Persimmon leaves

Introduction

Persimmon leaf, a Chinese medicine name. It is the leaf of Breynia retusa (Dennst.) Alston, a plant of the Euphorbiaceae family. It is distributed in Fujian, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet and other places. It has the effects of drying dampness and relieving itching, astringing and stopping bleeding. It is often used for eczema, dermatitis, traumatic bleeding, boils, and burns.

Nutritional value of persimmon leaves

It contains several times or even dozens of times more natural vitamin C than ordinary tea leaves, and the content of rutin, choline, flavonoids and 17 essential amino acids for the human body is also dozens of times higher than that of fruits, vegetables and ordinary beverages. Natural vitamin C promotes human metabolism and has certain therapeutic effects on scurvy, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Rutin and choline have the effect of softening blood vessels and preventing arteriosclerosis. Flavonoids can lower blood pressure, increase arterial blood flow, and have a significant inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus.

The efficacy and function of persimmon leaves

Persimmon leaf is also called persimmon leaf. It is the leaf of the persimmon plant of the Ebenaceae family. Persimmon leaf has the effects of quenching thirst, relieving lung bloating, clearing blood and reducing inflammation. Persimmon leaf can treat cough and asthma, lung bloating, and various internal bleeding. It is used for lung heat cough, hemoptysis, hematemesis, bloody stool, hematuria, metrorrhagia or excessive menstruation.

Medicinal value of persimmon leaves

Treats cough and asthma, lung bloating, and various internal bleeding; used for cough due to lung heat; epistaxis, hemoptysis, hematemesis, bloody stool, metrorrhagia or menorrhagia, hematuria, and purpura; restlessness, heat, and thirst.

Persimmon leaves, hawthorn and tea are more beneficial for increasing coronary blood flow, lowering blood lipids and blood pressure. They can be used to prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia and hypertension.

1. Persimmon Leaf and Platycladus Orientalis Leaf Powder: 9g each of persimmon leaf, Platycladus Orientalis Leaf and Scutellariae Rhizoma. Grind into fine powder, take 3g each time with warm water. This recipe uses persimmon leaf and Platycladus Orientalis Leaf to clear heat and cool blood, and Scutellariae Baicalensis to clear heat and purge fire, both of which can stop bleeding. It is used for bleeding in various parts of the body caused by blood heat.

2. Persimmon leaf and hawthorn tea: 10g persimmon leaf, 12g hawthorn, 3g tea leaves. Soak in boiling water and drink from time to time.

3. Treat thrombocytopenia: decoct dried persimmon leaves, indigo, donkey-hide gelatin, and cypress leaves. (Jiangxi "Chinese Herbal Medicine")

4. For hemostasis, take the persimmon leaves that fall naturally in autumn, wash and dry them, grind them into powder and sieve them for oral administration, 5 grams each time (10 grams for heavy cases), 3 times a day.

5. Treatment of thrombocytopenic purpura: Wash and dry the persimmon leaves that have fallen due to frost, grind them into fine powder, take 1 qian each morning and evening, and take one month as a course of treatment. If there is no significant effect after two courses of treatment, it is not necessary to take it again. It is suitable for patients whose acute symptoms of thrombocytopenic purpura have been relieved, but the platelet count is still lower than the normal value, and there are scattered purpura or mild bleeding signs.

Side effects and contraindications of persimmon leaves

Persimmons can moisten the lungs, regulate qi and resolve phlegm, and can be taken by tuberculosis patients. Persimmon leaves are the leaves of persimmon flowers, and their effects are the same as persimmons. If persimmon leaves are taken for a long time, diarrhea may occur and liver damage may occur. Therefore, you should eat some liver-protecting foods when drinking persimmon leaf tea.

How to eat persimmon leaves

Persimmon Leaf Tea

Ingredients: Any amount of persimmon leaves and an appropriate amount of green tea.

Preparation: Wash the persimmon leaves, dry them in the sun (those that fall naturally in autumn are better), grind them into fine powder, and store them in a porcelain jar. Take 2-3 times a day, 6 grams of the powder each time, decoct it with tea leaves, and drink it after it cools down.

Efficacy: Cools blood and stops bleeding.

Indications: Hemoptysis due to pulmonary tuberculosis, hemoptysis due to bronchiectasis, blood in sputum, bleeding from gastric ulcer, and various types of bleeding such as blood in the stool, blood in the urine, uterine bleeding, and purpura.

Persimmon Leaf and Sugar Porridge

Ingredients: 35 grams of fresh persimmon leaves, 100 grams of rice, 30 grams of white sugar.

practice:

1. Wash the fresh persimmon leaves, blanch them in boiling water, take them out, drain the water, and wrap them with clean gauze; wash the rice and set aside.

2. Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, put in the persimmon leaf bag and rice to cook porridge. When it is cooked, pick out the persimmon leaf bag and add sugar.

Usage: Take twice a day for 5-7 days.

Efficacy: Persimmon leaves are bitter, cold in nature, enter the lung meridian, contain flavonoids, reducing sugars, polysaccharides, volatile oils, organic acids, chlorophyll and rich vitamin C, carotene and other ingredients... It has the effects of killing bacteria and reducing inflammation, stopping bleeding and lowering blood pressure, clearing the heart and calming the nerves, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, relieving cough and asthma, and softening blood vessels.

Indications: Oliguria.

Persimmon Leaf Instant Drink

Efficacy: astringent to the intestines and stop bleeding, clearing away heat and moistening the lungs. Suitable for nephritis with stubborn proteinuria.

Ingredients: 3000g fresh persimmon leaves, some sugar

Preparation method: Wash and chop fresh persimmon leaves, add water and boil them, remove the residue and take 1000 grams of juice, concentrate it on low heat until it becomes thick and sticky, add sugar to absorb the juice, roll it into powder and bottle it.

Usage: Take 15 grams each time, 3 times a day.

Source: Experience

Clove and Persimmon Leaf Soup

Efficacy: Cough, retching, sweating and Yin syndrome.

Prescription: 1 qian of cloves, 1 qian of persimmon leaves, half a liang of licorice (roasted), and half a liang of ginger.

Preparation method: Grind the above ingredients into powder.

Dosage and Administration: Take 2 qian each time with hot soup at any time.

Source: Volume 1 of "Danxi's Heart Method and Its Remaining Part"

Persimmon Leaf and Hawthorn Soup

Ingredients: 10 grams of persimmon leaves, 12 grams of hawthorn, and rock sugar.

Preparation: Boil persimmon leaves and hawthorn together in water, add appropriate amount of rock sugar. Directions: Drink instead of tea.

Efficacy: Clears away heat, promotes the production of body fluid, activates blood circulation and unclogs meridians.

Main indications: Prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia and hypertension.

Description: This recipe is mainly used to clear away heat and promote blood circulation, and can prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases. The persimmon leaves in the recipe are the leaves of the plant Diospyros persimmon, which is slightly sweet and cool in nature. They can clear away heat and promote the production of body fluids. According to experimental research and analysis, they can lower blood pressure and increase coronary blood flow. Hawthorn can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and help digestion and remove fat. The combination of the two can promote blood circulation and promote blood circulation, increase myocardial blood supply, lower blood lipids and lower blood pressure. It is a common health drink for people with cardiovascular diseases.

Persimmon Leaf Hawthorn Tea

Ingredients: 10 grams of persimmon leaves, 12 grams of hawthorn, and 3 grams of tea leaves.

Method: Decoction in water, or wrap in gauze and soak in boiling water for 10-15 minutes, drink as often as you like.

Usage: 1 dose daily.

Efficacy: This tea is beneficial to increase coronary blood flow, lower blood lipids and blood pressure. It can calm blood pressure and can be used to prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia and hypertension.

The persimmon leaves in the recipe can clear away heat and promote fluid production, cool blood and stop bleeding, and have the effect of lowering blood pressure and increasing coronary blood flow; combined with hawthorn, which can promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, help digestion and remove fat, and green tea, which can clear away heat and promote fluid production, and reduce weight and fat, it can not only clear away heat and promote diuresis, eliminate fat and remove stagnation, but also dilate blood vessels, promote blood circulation and unclog meridians, which is beneficial for increasing coronary blood flow, increasing myocardial blood supply, improving blood circulation, lowering blood lipids and lowering blood pressure. Therefore, it is a commonly used health tea recipe for patients with cardiovascular diseases.

Qiju Persimmon Leaf Tea

Efficacy: Nourishes the liver and kidneys, calms the liver and relieves pain, suitable for premenstrual headaches caused by Yin deficiency and Yang hyperactivity.

Ingredients: 6g persimmon leaves, 10g wolfberry, 5g chrysanthemum

Preparation: Wash 6g of dried persimmon leaves (12g of fresh persimmon leaves), dry them in the sun, grind them into coarse powder for later use. Put 10g of wolfberry, 5g of chrysanthemum and the coarse persimmon leaves into a covered cup, brew with boiling water, cover and simmer for 10 minutes. It can be drunk frequently instead of tea, brew once a day, brew 1 dose each time, and brew each dose about 5 times.