As the saying goes, "three fires in one bite of litchi", don't think it is an exaggeration. For yin deficiency and liver heat, the evidence is conclusive. I have a patient who caught fire because he was with a group of people.
It should be noted that litchi is something for nourishing blood, strengthening yang and reducing fire. Faced with this beautiful fruit like white jade, people with fever can only bear it. Gout and diabetes patients should not eat more.
If you eat too much litchi, you can take one of the following teas to reduce the fire. Use Scrophularia 3 yuan (9g), Ophiopogon japonicus 3 yuan (9g) and three corduroy flowers to make a bowl with three bowls of water. Or eat cold watermelon and drink a bowl of lotus leaf and melon water, or turn down the fire a little.
It is said that boiling water in litchi shell can cure the physical discomfort caused by eating litchi. Yang Guifei used this one-step method to eliminate the sequelae of litchi, such as nausea, limb weakness and dizziness. You might as well try. People with yin deficiency and heat or liver fire should remember that eating less lychee is better than eating more lychee. Those who are peaceful or deficient in cold can enjoy the fruits of Lingnan without worry.
The poem "Three Wonders of the Qing Palace" includes: "Chang 'an looks back at the embroidered pile, and the top of the mountain opens a thousand times. Riding a princess and laughing in the world of mortals, no one knew it was litchi. "It's about that Emperor Tang Ming sent litchi thousands of miles away to win a smile from Yang Guifei.
Root: slightly bitter, astringent and warm.
Aril (pulp): sweet, sour and warm.
Nucleus: sweet, slightly bitter, astringent, warm.
Functional indication
Root: detumescence and pain relief. Used for epigastric pain.
Aril (pulp): benefiting qi and enriching blood. It is used for asthenia, chronic diarrhea due to spleen deficiency and bloody collapse after illness.
Nuclear: regulating qi, dispersing stagnation and relieving pain. Used for hernia pain, hydrocele of tunica vaginalis, testicular swelling and pain, stomachache and dysmenorrhea.
Usage and dosage of stone: 3 ~ 5 yuan. Root number 1 2.
Litchi is rich in nutrition. According to the analysis, every 100 ml of fruit juice contains vitamin c13.20 ~ 710.72 g, and soluble solids 12.9 ~ 2 1%, so it is a nutritional product for improving health. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, litchi can "quench thirst, benefit people's color ..., soothe the nerves and improve intelligence, invigorate qi (nourish the brain and strengthen the body), cure scrofula, treat tumors and tumors ..." and other diseases.
Eat litchi in moderation.
According to Su Xiang, director of physical therapy department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and a famous health care expert, litchi is the fruit of a plant of Sapindaceae. Its pulp is rich in nutrition, containing 66% glucose, 5% sucrose, 1.5% protein, 1.4% fat and a lot of vitamin C. It is really the best in fruits. However, in the season when litchi is fragrant, if you eat a lot of fresh litchi for several days in a row, many people often have symptoms such as dizziness, palpitation, pallor, hunger and cold sweat. Even in severe cases, convulsions, irregular breathing, weak pulse and even sudden coma may occur, similar to hypoglycemia. This is acute litchi poisoning, also known as litchi disease. So how to deal with litchi disease? In case of litchi disease, patients should lie flat immediately, and then drink a cup of concentrated sugar water to recover, but severe patients should be sent to hospital in time for treatment.
Who should not eat litchi?
Litchi is warm and dry, and it is best to eat less (preferably within 0.25 kg at a time) for those with yin deficiency and strong fire. If you are suffering from acne, sores, colds or acute inflammation, you are not suitable to eat litchi, otherwise it will aggravate your condition. But if the body is weak, stomach cold is suitable for eating more.
Litchi is rich in nutrition, and the sugar content of pulp is as high as 20%. Every 100 ml of fruit juice contains up to 70 mg of vitamin C, and also contains protein, fat, phosphorus, calcium and iron. Litchi is not only a good fresh fruit, but also can be baked into dried litchi, canned litchi, concentrated into juice, wine, boiled litchi gum and so on.
In addition, according to the ancient secret recipe, litchi tea made by boiling litchi shells with water can achieve the effect of reducing internal heat and nosebleeds for people who are easy to eat litchi; I didn't expect abandoned litchi shells to be so useful!
Litchi tea tastes like herbal tea. Although a little bitter, it will become very delicious after adding honey. For example, when lying-in women are confinement after childbirth, many cold foods can't be eaten. If there is a fire in the moon, they can drink a cup of litchi tea, and the whole person will feel comfortable immediately. Now, who dares to wronged litchi is not a good fruit!
◆ Lengjinxiang
Materials: litchi 1 kg, 3 bottles of sorghum, and five or six magnolia flowers.
* Practice:
1, litchi peeled and seeded, soaked in sorghum wine and Flos Magnoliae, and sealed.
2. Seal for 3 months before opening.
Admonish:
1, the longer the soaking time, the smoother the taste.
2. Bathing with the magnolia in the cold golden fragrance can not only eliminate fatigue, but also make the fragrance of magnolia spread all over the body.
3. Don't throw away the cold, golden and fragrant litchi pulp. When cooking, whether stewed or braised, put a little cold golden flavor instead of cooking wine, and the taste of the dish will be different immediately, and there will be a faint fragrance.
◆ Litchi tea
Ingredients: about 10 litchi shell, 300㏄ water and 1 teaspoon honey.
* Practice:
1, litchi shell is washed with clear water, and then boiled in water.
2. Boil the water for 10 minute.
3. After cooling, mix in honey.