Can babies drink water boiled with loquat leaves?

Drinking loquat leaves boiled in water is very effective in treating long-term cough or fever, chills, vomiting, diphtheria, etc. In fact, children can also drink some loquat leaves boiled in water for the treatment of whooping cough in children. Especially if the baby has lung heat cough, parents can try to boil some loquat leaf water for them to drink, but pay attention to the fact that children have weak stomachs, so the loquat leaf water should not be too thick.

1. The efficacy and function of loquat leaves

1. Loquat leaves contain tannins, saponins, amygdalin, ursolic acid, oleanolic acid, vitamin C, vitamin Bl and other ingredients. They have the effects of clearing heat, relieving heat, harmonizing the stomach, moistening the lungs, resolving phlegm, relieving cough, and relieving asthma. They are often used to treat long-term cough, whooping cough in children, fever and chills, vomiting, diphtheria and other diseases.

2. Loquat leaves enter the stomach meridian, are good at clearing stomach heat, lowering stomach qi, and stopping vomiting and treating hiccups. It can be used alone to treat stomach heat and vomiting. If vomiting does not stop after taking the medicine, it can be combined with ginger and pinellia to enhance the anti-vomiting effect.

3. For vomiting during pregnancy, boil loquat leaves with ginger and drink it; for children who vomit milk continuously, grind mother clove into powder and drink it with jujube soup. Loquat root: bitter, neutral. Clears the lungs and relieves cough, relieves pain and promotes lactation. It is mainly used to treat tuberculosis cough, rheumatic pain in the muscles and bones, and milk obstruction.

2. Can babies drink water boiled with loquat leaves?

Loquat leaves can help regulate the stomach and intestines, treat chronic bronchitis, and also have the effect of relieving cough and expectoration. Therefore, babies can drink some loquat leaves boiled in water appropriately. If the baby has lung heat cough, loquat leaves boiled in water also has a good cough-relieving effect.

3. Tips :

Because children's gastrointestinal function is weak and loquat leaves are cold in nature, parents should not give their babies too much loquat leaf boiled water at one time to avoid symptoms such as diarrhea. Therefore, they should consume it in moderation. In addition, parents should note that drinking boiled loquat leaves in water is only an auxiliary treatment method. If the child has a severe cough, he or she should go to the hospital for treatment in time.

Loquat leaves contain calcium oxalate, which is easy to precipitate. Drinking it on an empty stomach will cause constipation, so it is more appropriate to drink the water boiled with loquat leaves after meals.