Digest Number 1476

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In traditional Chinese medicine, persimmon calyx is associated with the Lung

and Stomach meridians, and has bitter and neutral properties. Its chief

functions are to stop hiccups and belching, and to move stomach qi downward

 

Unripe fruit and inner bark have been used in the treatment of fever,

diarrhea, and hemorrhage.

 

The Chinese System of Food Cures by Henry C. Lu lists the following uses:

coughing, vomiting of blood, mouth canker,stomachache, diarrhea, hemorrhoids,

endemic goiter, bloody urine, hypertension; hiccupping.