Sweet in taste and cold in nature, it has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, purging fire and relieving annoyance, stimulating appetite, helping digestion and diuresis. It is mainly used for summer heat, polydipsia and urination. But patients with heart failure and edema should not eat more.
Bananas:
It has the effects of stabilizing blood pressure and relaxing bowels, moistening lung, promoting fluid production, nourishing yin and eliminating dryness, and can be used for treating dermatoses and resisting cancer. However, eating on an empty stomach has an inhibitory effect on cardiovascular system, causing symptoms of numbness and drowsiness fatigue. People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, stomachache and diarrhea should eat less, and those with hyperacidity and poor stomach function and arthritis and muscle pain should not eat. It has serious side effects on kidney patients, which can slow down local blood circulation, accumulate metabolites, make joints and muscles ache and aggravate chronic nephritis. Patients with edema symptoms should eat carefully. Because of the high sugar content, diabetic patients should eat less or not.
Sugarcane:
It is sweet in taste and cold in nature, and has the functions of clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, lowering qi and moistening dryness. It is often used for fever, body fluid injury, upset and thirst, nausea and vomiting, lung dryness and cough, and dry stool.
Olives:
It tastes sweet and sour, and has the functions of clearing away lung heat, promoting fluid production, relieving sore throat and detoxifying. Mainly used for sore throat, polydipsia, cough due to lung heat, hemoptysis, food stagnation, alcoholic dampness and heat.
Water chestnut:
Sweet and cold, it has the functions of clearing away the heat of the lung and stomach, resolving phlegm and resolving food stagnation, improving eyesight, treating hemorrhoids and bleeding in stool. Prevent meningitis and hypertension, and can help treat chronic cough and thick phlegm.
Apple:
Sweet and cool, it has the effects of promoting fluid production, relieving annoyance, stimulating appetite, regulating spleen, moistening lung and pleasing heart, astringing intestine and stopping diarrhea. Can lower cholesterol, prevent arteriosclerosis and have anticancer effect. However, people with myocardial infarction and diabetes should not eat it, because it is easy to cause constipation because it contains more acid.
Pear:
Sweet and cool, slightly sour, it has the functions of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, moistening lung and resolving phlegm, and is often used for fever and body fluid injury, polydipsia and thirst quenching, hot cough and dry cough, dyspnea and aphonia, constipation, etc. However, those who have diarrhea due to stomach cold and spleen deficiency are forbidden to eat.
Orange:
Sweet and flat, it has the functions of soothing the liver, promoting qi circulation and relieving pain. It is mainly used for activating the qi of Jue Yin and stagnation of cold, as well as women's poor milk discharge and breast swelling, hardness and pain.
Loquat:
Benefiting lung qi, resolving phlegm and relieving cough (hot cough), harmonizing stomach and reducing qi, and having the effects of cooling and promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Constipation, treatment of sores and bronchitis are forbidden.
Persimmon:
It is sweet and astringent, cold, moistening lung and relieving cough, clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, resolving phlegm and softening hardness, strengthening spleen, astringing intestine, treating cough and stopping bleeding, and has curative effects on hypertension and hemorrhoid bleeding. Eating too much will produce persimmon stones.