VARIANT NAMES: Kuaiguo, Guozong, Yuru, Mifu.
ORIGIN: Mainly the cultivar fruit of Pyrus brets-chneideri, P. pyrifolia and P. ussuriensis [Rosaceae].
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION: Containing sugars (fructose, sucrose, glucose), citric acid, malic acid, vitamin B1, B2 and A, calcium, phosphorus, iron, a trace of protein and fat.
NATURE, FLAVOR AND CHANNEL TROPISM: Sweet, slightly sour in flavor and cool in nature, acting on the channels of the lung and stomach.
EFFICIENCIES AND INDICATIONS: Promoting the production of body fluid, moistening dryness, clearing away pathogenic heat and resolving phlegm. It is used to treat restlessness and thirst due to impairment of the body fluid during febrile diseases, Diabetes, and cough of heat type, madness by fright due to phlegm-heat, Dysphagia and Constipation.
DIRECTIONS: To be eaten raw, pounded (after peeled and stoned) to get its juice, boiled down to jelly, or decocted for oral administration. Those who suffer from loose stools caused by insufficiency of the spleen should avoid it.