Cure cough due to cold with guava tree

According to traditional medicine, the whole guava tree has medicinal properties. The guava root has a sweet and bitter taste, is cold, and has a cooling effect.

According to traditional medicine, the whole guava tree has medicinal properties. The guava root has a sweet and bitter taste, is cold, and has a cooling effect. The guava leaves are cool, have an anti-inflammatory effect, and treat itching and snake bites. The flowers have a sweet, bland taste, are cool, and have a hemostatic effect. However, people usually only pick the leaves, flowers, and branches, dry them, and use them as medicine.

The fragrant guava tree is also called the five-color tree, the four-season flower, the four-season flower, the single horse, the grape guava, the guava flower, the Tay people call it the house of the air mu. It is a small tree, bush-like, 1 - 2m high. The square trunk is covered with rough hairs and has downward-curving thorns. The branches extend long. The leaves grow opposite, oval, round or heart-shaped at the base, pointed at the tip, and evenly serrated edges.

The inflorescences grow in the leaf axils and at the ends of branches, forming a pseudo-spherical head. The whole plant has a special pungent smell. The flowering and fruiting season is from April to September. The plant grows wild in many places, often on hills, vacant lots, and forest edges. Nowadays, people often plant the plant as an ornamental plant because it has beautiful flowers that bloom all year round. The flowers of the guava tree are red, orange-yellow... and grow in a spherical cluster that resembles a very beautiful head.

Some empirical remedies

Lesson 1: Cure colds: Guava leaves, lemon leaves, grapefruit leaves, lemongrass leaves, bamboo leaves, basil leaves, perilla leaves, thuja leaves, kudzu leaves... a handful of each, wash, put in a pot to boil water to cure colds, then eat hot porridge and cover with a blanket.

Lesson 2: Cure cough due to cold: Take 20g fresh guava flowers or 10g dried, boil with 500ml water until 100ml remains, drink during the day. Use alone or combine with black roasted pagoda tree flowers and white atractylodes root, each 8g. Can add sugar to make it easier to drink. This decoction also cures colds and high blood pressure. Use for 5 consecutive days.

Lesson 3: Hemostatic, antiseptic, treatment of small narrow wounds: 30g of guava leaves and flowers combined with 10g of fresh ginger, dried or dried, crushed, sifted into fine powder, sprinkled on the wound. Change the bandage once a day or use fresh guava leaves, wash, crush and apply to the wound. If the wound is large, give first aid and then go to a medical facility for emergency treatment.

Lesson 4: Treat diabetes mellitus: Take all the branches, leaves and flowers of the guava tree, dry them. Cut into pieces and put them in a sealed jar. Use gradually, take about 40g each day, add 500ml of water, boil down to 150ml, drink instead of tea every day. You can combine it with porridge cooked from yam and water chestnut, which is even better. Use continuously for 10 days.

Lesson 5:Treating rashes: About 30 - 50g of guava leaves and flowers, boil to get concentrated water, bathe and soak daily.

Note:Lantana camara L. belongs to the verbena family (Verbenaceae), avoid confusing it with Ageratum conyzoides L. belonging to the Asteraceae family, which treats sinusitis.

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