Kumquat peel cures hiccups

Kumquat is also called doi (commonly called in Thanh Hoa region) or hoang bi, tangerine peel (these names are easily confused with ornamental kumquat).

Scientific name: Clausena lansium (Lour.) Skeels, belongs to the citrus family. This is a woody plant, about 3 to 5 m high, often growing wild or planted from Ha Tinh to the North, to Southern China.

According to Oriental medicine, kumquat leaves are spicy, bitter, neutral, and have the effect of relieving heatstroke, flu, reducing fever, expectorant, and cough. The fruit is sour, neutral, and slightly warm, and has the effect of reducing cough, expectorant, stimulating digestion, and stopping vomiting.

The medicinal parts include the fruit (cut lengthwise, dried and called kumquat peel or red peel); kumquat seeds and root bark have a bitter taste, warm properties, and aid digestion. The ripe fruit is dried and used in combination with a medicinal plant, crushed into pulp, to treat venomous snake bites. The leaves have a spicy, bitter taste and are neutral in nature, and have the effect of relieving colds, reducing fever, and reducing coughs. The dried root bark is used to make medicine for the whole kumquat tree.

The bark of the kumquat tree combined with several other medicinal herbs is used for women after giving birth. Folklore often uses it to treat stomach pain, epigastric pain or gastrointestinal spasms in women after giving birth.

Kumquat leaves are used to treat colds, fevers, support malaria treatment, and shampoo to remove dandruff and smooth hair. The fruit is used for people with poor digestion, nausea, and prolonged cough (if the cough is acute due to infection, antibiotics must be combined; if the cough is due to tuberculosis, specialized medicine must be used).

Some experiments show that the extract from rose apple leaves has antispasmodic effect on the ileum of mice thanks to the active ingredient lasimit; inhibits some strains of malaria parasites and kills intestinal parasites.

In addition, the dry extract extracted with methanol has antibacterial effects: Staphylococcus aureus and E.coli intestinal bacteria. Clinical trials have shown that kumquat peel treats amoebic and bacillary dysentery (combined with bitter melon and pagoda tree flower) with better results than modern medicine (ganidan, tetracycline).

Oriental medicine uses many parts of the kumquat fruit to make medicine, including the seeds and root bark. The taste is bitter, spicy, warm, and has pain-relieving and digestive-aiding effects.

Below are some ways to treat diseases with kumquat.

* Cold and fever relief:30g fresh kumquat leaves, wash, dry, boil and drink to sweat.

* Cough treatment for children:Fresh persimmons, steamed with sugar, feed children 3 times a day: morning, noon, and evening.

* Good treatment for whooping cough:Dried fruit, seedless 50g, mulberry root bark (tang bach bi) 50g, lemongrass root 50g, fritillary root 50g, apricot 50g, Platycodon grandiflorum 50g, almonds 50g, perilla 50g, licorice 50g, mint 50g.

Boil all ingredients with water several times. Take the concentrated liquid, add sugar and cook into syrup. Drink 1-5 spoons each time depending on age and severity of illness.

* To stimulate digestion and prevent disease for postpartum women:Take 30g of kumquat bark or root, 20g of Chinese clematis root, and 20g of star fruit. Fry the ingredients until golden brown, boil until concentrated, and divide into several doses to drink during the day. Can be used for many days in a row.

* Cure hiccups: Use 15 - 20 ripe kumquats, mash them with 1 teaspoon of sugar or honey, steam them, when the fruits are ripe, mash them and mix them with water to drink.

* Hold vomiting:Chew fresh kumquat skin and swallow juice gradually.

According to Agriculture-NT