People who smoke and drink regularly usually feel that they always want to cough up phlegm when they get up in the morning, and their throats are dry, but they have sticky phlegm; Some have nausea, retching, white cough or yellow phlegm. Many people know that this is the manifestation of chronic pharyngitis, and they usually take some throat tablets when they are sick occasionally. In fact, frequent smoking and drinking is not only easy to cause chronic pharyngitis, but also easy to hurt two places, one is the lung and the other is the liver. Research shows that 80% of lung cancer patients smoke, and 50% of lung cancer in China is caused by smoking; Smoking and drinking will have a synergistic effect on liver injury, greatly increasing the risk of liver cancer.

Although smoking and drinking are very harmful, many people are still eager to smoke and drink. So what should we eat at ordinary times? In addition to the green vegetables and fruits that we often say have a good effect of repairing and supplementing nutrition to the body, today I recommend a kind of fruit with the same origin of medicine and food-Phyllanthus emblica, also called Youkan.

Why Phyllanthus emblica? What does it do? Phyllanthus emblica is one of the three health plants designated by the United Nations Health Organization to be planted all over the world, and it is listed as a dual-purpose fruit for medicine and food by the Ministry of Health. This Phyllanthus emblica is used in the medical systems of more than 30 countries or nationalities around the world.

Phyllanthus emblica, sour, sweet and astringent, cool in nature, enters the lung and stomach meridians, and has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving sore throat and promoting fluid production, clearing away lung heat and resolving phlegm. Commonly used for sore throat, cough and expectoration, dyspepsia or blood stasis blocking collaterals, among which acute and chronic pharyngitis is the most widely used. At present, many Chinese patent medicines mainly use Phyllanthus emblica, such as Phyllanthus emblica tablets, compound Phyllanthus emblica tablets and throat tablets. Chinese medicine often uses Phyllanthus emblica with olive, forsythia, olive, mint, platycodon grandiflorum and so on. When treating lung diseases with sore throat. If the throat is dry and the voice is hoarse, terminalia chebula, ebony, wooden butterfly, etc. Will be added. Generally, it is better to drink raw food or fruit juice.

Modern scientific research shows that Phyllanthus emblica has a good protective effect on liver, and has obvious protective and preventive effects on acute and chronic liver injury. Phyllanthus emblica is rich in vitamin C, tannin and superoxide dismutase SOD. The content of vitamin C is 0.6%-0.92%, sometimes reaching 1.82%, which is 60 times that of apple. Moreover, because it is in a highly acidic environment, its vitamin C is not easy to be destroyed at high temperature. Phyllanthus emblica is rich in superoxide dismutase SOD, and its activity is as high as14000 u/g; Vitamin B 1, B2 and carotene are also rich, so it has strong antioxidant capacity. It can protect liver cells, alleviate liver injury, resist liver fibrosis, reduce alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase in serum, increase SOD activity in serum, promote glycogen synthesis and improve pathological damage of liver tissue.

In addition, because Phyllanthus emblica has super antioxidant capacity, it also has anti-inflammatory and anti-aging effects. It was found that the average life span of Drosophila melanogaster fed with 25% Phyllanthus emblica nutrient solution was prolonged by more than 1 times. Phyllanthus emblica also contains a variety of phenolic compounds, such as flavonoids, organic acids, reducing sugar, protein, amino acids and so on. It can play the role of anti-HBV, reducing blood fat and blood sugar. Therefore, it is reasonable that Phyllanthus emblica is designated as a health plant by the United Nations Health Organization. For people who often smoke and drink and have chronic pharyngitis, they can eat more, which can be fruit or juice. Of course, Phyllanthus emblica is still sour, so it is not recommended to eat on an empty stomach.