LO HON KO TO CURE COUGH

Lo Hon Kuo 羅漢果 or Arhat Fruit (Siraitia grosvenorii ) is used for cooling drinks and in traditional Chinese medicine. Actually, the extract of the fruit is very sweet and is used as a sweetener. In the above picture you can see the dried form of the Lo Hon Kuo sold at the Chinese Medicine Shop. The fruit can used to make a herbal drink and also soup. Some of the medicinal uses of the Luo Hon Kuo are for treating heat stroke, sore throat, chronic cough, and constipation.  

My beautician, Shermone, shared on herbal remedy for cough using the Luo Hon Kuo.  She said to boil two of the fruit in half a pot of water at night and then drink it the next morning before brushing ones teeth.  Shermone told me that the remedy was passed on to her by one of her clients who got cured after trying it out.