If ya have the hiccups, and a hot dry cough, come on over to my house and pluck yourself some Pi Pa Ye from the backyard.
枇杷叶
Pi Pa Ye
Pi = loquat
Pa = loquat
Ye = leaf
Loquat Leaf
Bitter
Neutral (some sources say cool)
Lung and STOMACH
Pi Pa Ye, the leaf of the loquat tree (which I have in my backyard, see pics, below) is helpful for transforming phlegm, and stopping cough, specifically from lung heat (which is why I think some sources say it is cool). This herb also travels to the STOMACH -- the only one of this category that does so. Therefore, it also clears stomach heat, and redirects stomach qi downward (belching, hiccups, heartburn, vomiting).
Pretty exciting to have it in my backyard all these years and finally realize what it is, and what its medicinal properties are.
The candidate for Pi Pa Ye is someone with a dry, hot cough. It acts as a sedative, expectorant, and antitussive (cough suppressant).
Dosage is typical, 6 - 15 g, but it can be used fresh at 15-30 g (remove the fuzz from the leaves). Can be prepared with ginger or honey. The seeds and small leaves, according to Wikipedia, are slightly poisonous, containing small amounts of cyanide, like its relative, the apple (though I think the apple poison is arsenic?). If you eat a large quantity of the fruit, they have a sedating effect that can last a day. Too bad our tree hasn't produced any fruit in ten years -- until this year it hatched just a couple of little deformed fruits.
The tree is indigenous to southeastern China, and also grows in my backyard in southwestern Berkeley:
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