What diseases can peach leaves cure?

Spring is the season when peach blossoms are in full bloom, so spring is also the best season to appreciate peach blossoms. When peach blossoms are in full bloom, peaches will be produced. At the same time, peach trees will produce peach gum, which is a health product with very obvious health effects. This also indirectly reflects that the whole peach tree is a treasure, but everyone ignores the peach leaves. In fact, peach leaves are also a kind of Chinese medicinal material. So what kind of pharmacological effect can peach leaves have on the human body?

Ripe dried peaches are called dried peaches, which can treat excessive sweating and stop bleeding. The dried young fruit is called peach, which is used to treat vomiting blood, heartache, bleeding in pregnant women, and sweating in children. The leaves are called peach branches, which can promote the flow of qi and blood, and can be boiled in water to wash rheumatism, skin diseases, and dyshidrotic eczema. The roots and dried slices are called peach roots or peach heads, which are used to treat jaundice, abdominal pain, and stomach heat. The flowers are called white peach blossoms, which can treat edema and constipation.

1. Peach leaves: Peach leaves contain glycosides, hydroxyl groups and various organic acids. Mash peach leaves, add 10 times the amount of water, stir well, filter, and spray the liquid to prevent and control aphids, borers, cabbage loopers, loopers and soft-bodied insects.

2. The leaves of the peach tree can be made into many therapeutic beverages, such as the diuretic effect of the peach tree leaves.

3. Peach leaves can eliminate acne (take 1000 grams of carrots, wash and squeeze the juice, boil 8 peach leaves in 400 ml of juice, pour it into the carrot juice, use this method to wash your face, wash your face three times a day, one dose a day, keep washing for three days, and the acne will be eliminated).

4. Peach leaves can produce hydrogen cyanide after hydrolysis.

5. Peach leaves have been used as a laxative, anthelmintic and to treat whooping cough.

6. Peach leaves have certain anti-tumor effects.

7. Peach leaves are "yang" in nature and are added to facial masks. It has special effects on young and vibrant skin, and its main function is to accelerate blood circulation in the skin.

8. Peach leaves are effective in removing psoriasis.

The effects of peach leaf extracts (1%) from different varieties of peach trees in killing mosquito larvae are basically the same, and can kill more than 95% of the mosquito larvae within 24 hours; low concentration (0.25-0.5%) extracts have no significant effect; fresh leaves and dry leaves have similar therapeutic effects, and are effective against the larvae of Culex pipiens, Anopheles sinensis, and Argonautus harassus. Some experiments have proved that peach leaves can replace chloroform or other anesthetics to kill Anopheles mosquitoes; young leaves are better than old leaves, fresh leaves are better than stale leaves, and crushed leaves are better than soaked. Because peach leaves contain glycosides, they can release hydrogen cyanide through the action of enzymes when crushed. A decoction of peach leaves at a dilution of 1:100 or above can kill Leptospira by direct microscopic examination in vitro or observation in vitro after 1, 6, 12, 24 or 48 hours of culture.