Medicinal uses of kumquats for Tet

Kumquat fiber and seeds have many medicinal uses such as regulating the air, dissolving phlegm, treating chest coughs or coughing up blood, reducing back pain, treating early stage breast cancer...

During Tet, families often buy meaningful plants to display in their homes such as apricot, peach, kumquat... Among them, kumquat is a popular choice, has a reasonable price and is easy to care for.

Explaining the reason why kumquat is chosen by many people as a decorative tree during Tet, Dr. Huynh Tan Vu, Head of the Daytime Treatment Unit, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City - Campus 3, said that in Chinese, "quất" is pronounced similar to the word "cát" in "cat tuong", meaning good luck and blessings.

When buying kumquat trees for Tet, buyers often choose trees with green leaves, even yellow fruits, and many fruits, representing prosperity, promising a new year with a good harvest, good business, and good health. If you are lucky enough to choose a tree with ripe fruit, green fruit, and young shoots, it will be very good, because it represents fullness, success, and luck.

What is special is that kumquat not only decorates the house during Tet but is also used as food and medicine very well. People can eat kumquat segments or use kumquat to make jam, syrup, soak in wine... In addition, according to Oriental medicine, kumquat segments, peel and leaves are used as medicine to treat diseases of the liver, digestion, cough, blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases...

According to Dr. Vu, there are two parts of the kumquat that can be used as medicine to treat many diseases, but few people know about it and often throw it away when eating. First, kumquat fiber has a bitter taste, neutral properties, and is rich in vitamin P, which helps prevent and treat high blood pressure, and is very useful for the elderly. Kumquat fiber also has the effect of regulating the flow of air, dissolving phlegm, clearing the channels, and clearing the meridians. It is often used to treat stagnant qi, chest pain, coughing up blood, etc.

The second is kumquat seeds, also known as kumquat kernels, which have a slightly bitter and spicy taste and warm properties. They are effective in regulating qi, relieving pain, dissolving lumps, and are often used to treat cysts, testicular swelling and pain, back pain, mastitis, early stage breast cancer, etc. In addition, kumquat seeds combined with lychee seeds and another remedy are very good for treating male infertility.

Doctor Vu advises that when eating kumquat, you should not throw away the fiber and seeds, but should know how to utilize them, dry them, and preserve them carefully for use when needed.

Some remedies using kumquat

Cure for colds: 30g fresh kumquat peel, 15g saposhnikovia, pour in 3 cups of water, boil to get 2 cups, mix in white sugar, drink one cup while hot, after half an hour reheat and drink the remaining cup.

Cure flu, headache: Kumquat leaves and other aromatic leaves such as lemongrass, chrysanthemum, great compassion, basil, grapefruit leaves, lemon leaves..., boil water to drink and steam to sweat.

Cure rheumatism, back pain, body pain: 16g kumquat root, 12g Smilax glabra, 12g Achyranthes bidentata, 8g Achyranthes bidentata. Chop all ingredients, boil in water or soak in wine to drink. Can also be cooked into a paste and mixed with wine to drink.

Cure cough due to wind heat: 20g kumquat root bark, 10g mulberry root bark, 10g licorice root or leaves (or 5g licorice). Slice the three ingredients thinly, dry them, boil with 400ml of water until 100ml remains, add sugar, divide into 2-3 portions to drink during the day.

Cure for cough with phlegm: Mix 8-16 green kumquats with a small spoon of sugar or honey, a little salt and 5g of soot (burned with wood). Steam all of the ingredients for 15-20 minutes, take out, crush, mix well, divide into 2-3 portions to drink during the day.

Cure dysentery: 20g kumquat bark, 20g pomegranate peel, 20g banana peel, 2g ivy root, 10g guava buds, finely chopped, dried, decocted to drink.

Cure stomachache, backache, knee pain: 15-30g kumquat root, boil in water to drink.

Cure tooth decay: Dig up kumquat roots, wash them, add a little salt, chew and hold in your mouth. After a while, the toothache will stop.

Treat swelling and blood stasis: 40g kumquat leaves, divided into 2 parts, one part dried, fried until golden brown, boiled to drink, one part kept fresh, crushed, applied to the injured area. Do this continuously for 3-4 days.

Treatment for long-standing fistula with pus: 20g kumquat leaves, 20g lemon leaves, 10g bamboo essence, dry all, grind into powder, sift finely, sprinkle on the wound.

Cure boils: Use equal amounts of kumquat root and wine residue, crush, heat, and apply to the boil.

Snake bite treatment: A handful of kumquat leaves, wash, crush, add a little salt and a cup of boiled water to cool, strain the water to drink and use the pulp to apply to the wound.

Cure vomiting: 10g kumquat peel, 15g loquat leaves, wrap in cloth, boil in water to drink.

Cough with phlegm: Sand pink (a type of processed kumquat peel) 10g, fritillary powder 3g, processed loquat leaves 15g, decoct and drink.

Cystitis, testicular swelling: equal amounts of kumquat seeds and fennel, roast until golden brown, grind into powder, drink 3-6 g daily with warm wine.

Pain in flank: 10g kumquat fiber, 10g green tangerine peel, 10g cyperus rotundus, decoct and drink.

Doctor Vu noted that the parts of kumquat used for food and medicine must be safe and not soaked in chemicals.

Kumquat trees used for Tet decoration can be stimulated by growers to produce even, beautiful, large, round fruit. Therefore, we should discard all the fruit when it wilts or falls off or cut it off after Tet. We should only eat the fruit that comes out later to ensure safety and avoid chemical poisoning.

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