China's traditional snack "ice candy gourd", the beginning is - a kind of cure for diseases.

The Emperor Guangzong of the Southern Song Dynasty was named Zhao Dun, and his reign name was Shaoxi. Shaoxi years, Song Guangzong's favorite Huang Guifei sick, she was yellow and thin, do not think of eating, the imperial doctors used many expensive drugs, all did not see any effect. The emperor saw his favorite concubine emaciated, but also all day long worried, and finally had no choice but to open the list of doctors.

A jianghu Langzhong open list into the palace, for Huang Guifei pulse diagnosis, said: "as long as the use of rock sugar and red fruit (i.e., hawthorn) decoction, eat five to ten before each meal, not half a month of disease quasi see good." At the beginning, we will believe, well in this way of eating is also suitable for the taste of the princess, the princess according to this way to serve, really as expected to heal. Later, this practice spread to the people, the people and put it on a string to sell, it became the ice candy gourd.

Ice candy gourd eating taboos

1, many people often have no taboos when eating ice candy gourd, usually when you want to eat eat, which is also very wrong. Especially some like to eat before meals, the crowd should pay special attention to, although the sweet and sour ice gourd is more appetizing, but this not only can not play the role of appetizing, but will lead to gastrointestinal function is impaired. Experts remind in the fasting state is best not to eat hawthorn, so as not to affect the normal digestion and absorption function of the stomach and intestines.

2, if the teeth have problems, in ordinary life should also pay attention to eat as little as possible some ice candy gourd. Especially for young children, if you eat too much ice cream, it is easy to cause tooth decay, caries and other symptoms. Therefore, for children, parents should try to avoid letting them eat hawthorn in excess.

3, there are spleen and stomach weakness and other symptoms of patients in ordinary life should also pay attention to minimize some ice candy gourd, in the "herbs ready to" recorded: "Hawthorn more food people noisy annoyance easy to starve, anti-devastation of the spleen and stomach gas." Therefore, people with digestive dysfunction should try to eat less of this kind of food.

The above content reference? Baidu Encyclopedia - ice candy gourd