Old Chinese medicine doctor comments on various fruits

Given everyone’s love for traditional medicine and health preservation, I hope you can find reasons to eat your favorite fruits from the comments of old Chinese medicine practitioners. Let's enjoy the colorful fruit feast with me!

apple

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Chronic diarrhea caused by spleen and stomach deficiency and cold needs to be wrapped in tin foil and stewed before eating. It contains the most fructose, organic acid, pectin and trace elements.

1. Pectin: It is a soluble fiber that promotes cholesterol metabolism, lowers cholesterol levels, and promotes fat excretion;

2. Trace elements: Potassium dilates blood vessels and is beneficial to patients with hypertension; zinc deficiency can cause blood sugar metabolism disorders and decreased sexual function.

3. It can regulate the stomach and intestines: fiber helps excretion and also has an astringent effect on diarrhea.

4. Boil apple peel and a few slices of ginger in water: can stop vomiting.

5. It can reduce the coldness of pears and strengthen their lung and stomach moistening effects.

Autumn lung-nourishing syrup: several apples/pears + 1 liang of lily + 15g of dendrobium + 9g of almonds

pawpaw

Longevity fruit. Sweet, neutral, slightly cold, a proteolytic enzyme.

1. The enzymes it contains are similar to human growth hormone. Eating more of it can keep you young.

2. Protein enzymes help break down proteins and starches, which is beneficial to the digestive system.

3. In addition to aiding digestion, it can relieve heat and thirst, moisten the lungs and relieve coughs. It is helpful for colds, coughs, constipation, and chronic bronchitis.

Cooked papaya + dried persimmon cake can cure asthma-related coughs

Peeled ripe papaya + steamed + honey, cure dry cough

Raw papaya juice or dried and ground powder can repel insects.

Boil papaya with fish tail or pig's trotter to promote milk secretion.

watermelon

It is cold in nature.

It is not suitable for people with cold stomach, pregnant women, and those with slightly hot body and cold constitution.

Suitable for strong and hot people.

If you accidentally eat too much and feel dizzy, you can hold a piece of ginger in your mouth to relieve the pain.

pear

The king of all fruits, a great product for clearing away heat. It is cold in nature, so people with weak constitution or cold cough should not eat it raw. It must be steamed in water, put in soup, or stewed with medicinal herbs.

Swan pear, fragrant pear and tribute pear are cooler in nature; rough-skinned sand pear and imported beer pear are even colder.

Sore throat after eating too much

mango

It is not advisable to eat too much, it has medicinal value. It is mild in nature, sweet in taste, and can quench thirst and promote salivation.

Mangoes are damp and toxic, so people with skin diseases or tumors should avoid eating them (eczema/purulence/gynecological diseases/edema/athlete's foot – eating mangoes will make the condition worse)

Unripe ones may treat allergies, but are contraindicated in treating asthma.

One of the few fruits rich in protein, eating more will make you full.

1. Good for eyes and moisturizing skin.

2. Detoxify, eliminate stagnation and lower blood pressure.

3. Stop vomiting and treat seasickness. Pregnant woman nausea

Kiwi fruit

There are ways to prevent cancer. Eating while coughing may aggravate the condition.

1. Vitamin C content is 20-80 times higher than that of apples and 5-10 times higher than that of citrus fruits. This antioxidant can effectively prevent the formation of carcinogenic nitrite in the human body.

2. Regulate the middle and lower qi. Nourishes the body, clears away heat and promotes diuresis, clears the stomach and relieves dryness.

3. Treat internal heat and irritability, prevent and treat scurvy, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, cancer, etc.

4. It is particularly useful in treating digestive tract cancer and lung cancer.

Mangosteen

It is very cold in nature, so those with weak constitution can eat a little, but not too much. Do not eat it with cold foods such as watermelon, soy milk, beer, cabbage, mustard greens, bitter melon, winter melon and lotus leaf soup.

If you accidentally eat too much, boil brown sugar and ginger tea to relieve it.

durian

Used for tonic of deficiency and cold, hot and stagnant in nature

Cancer patients or those recovering from cancer, skin diseases, or those suffering from yin deficiency and liver heat should avoid eating this food.

People with weak constitution can eat it to strengthen yang and increase fire.

It can be used as a tonic for those suffering from coldness after childbirth.

If you eat too much, you can eat a few mangosteens immediately to relieve it.

litchi

Hot girl, aphrodisiac

People with excess heat, yin deficiency and excessive fire (skin diseases, dry mouth, insomnia) should not eat it.

People with gout and diabetes should not eat too much.

People with a balanced constitution or cold constitution can enjoy it.

If you eat too much, eat watermelon which is cold in nature or drink a bowl of lotus leaf and winter melon water.

coconut

Mild in nature, coconut meat can replenish yang fire and strengthen the body. It is suitable for those who are weak, have weak limbs, and are easily tired.

Not suitable for people with excessive heat in the body. High in fat and protein.

Coconut glutinous rice stewed chicken has a tonic effect.

Coconut water + Adenophora Root + Lily + Dendrobium = Clearing away heat and nourishing yin

Coconut water + winter melon seeds = relieve lung heat

Coconut water + Tremella fuciformis (cooling) or Rhizoma fuciformis (tonifying)

lemon

Fruit for women, people with stomach problems should not drink lemon tea.

1. Lemon juice + warm water + salt = expectorant, stronger than orange and tangerine.

2. Early stage of cold: lemon + honey water = soothe sore throat / reduce dry throat discomfort

3. It can stabilize pregnancy [good for mother and child], beautify the face, remove spots, prevent pigmentation, improve uterine anteversion, uterine ligament sagging and even amenorrhea

4. Lemon can lower blood pressure and cholesterol and improve cardiovascular system.