The efficacy and function of Lu Li

Deer pear is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine and is very helpful for many diseases. Let us give a brief introduction to Deer Pear below.

[Other names] Yangyang (The Book of Songs), Chiluo (Mao Shi Zhuan), Luo (Erya), mountain pear, Yangyang, mouse pear, red radish (Lu Ji's Shishu), tree pear (Compendium of Materia Medica), sour pear (A Long Compilation of Illustrations of Plant Names and Realities), wild pear (Jiangxi's Handbook of Herbal Medicine).

[Source] It is the fruit of the Rosaceae plant Pyrus affine .

[Original form] Deciduous tree or shrub, up to 9 meters high. The bark is gray-black; the twigs are smooth; the winter buds have fine hairs. The leaves are simple and alternate, or clustered on short branches, broadly ovate or ovate, 4-8 cm long, 3.3-5.5 cm wide, with a short sharp tip, a rounded to broadly cuneate base, finely and bluntly serrated edges, and glabrous on both sides; the petiole is 2-4 cm long. The umbel is racemose, with 6 to 12 flowers and a diameter of 2 to 2.5 cm; the pedicel is 1.5 to 3 cm long; the sepals are 5, lanceolate, slightly shorter than the calyx tube), glabrous on the outside and sparsely hairy on the inside; the petals are 5, ovate, white with short claws; the stamens are 20; the styles are 2, rarely 3. The pear fruit is spherical, about 1 to 2 cm in diameter, dark brown with spots, and the calyx lobes fall off; the fruit stalk is slender. Seeds dark brown. Flowering period is April. Fruiting period is September.

[Habitat distribution] It grows beside streams, roadsides and mixed woods. It is distributed in Guangdong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places.

【Chemical composition】 Water content: 75-80%, sugar content: about 15-20%.

【Nature and flavor】 "Compendium of Materia Medica": "sour, astringent, cold, non-toxic."

【Function】 "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Braised food to treat dysentery."

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] From "Compendium of Materia Medica".

The above are some of the basic functions of deer pears introduced to you, as well as how to eat deer pears, so that you will not make mistakes when eating them and can also maximize the value of deer pears more correctly.