Traditional Chinese medicine believes that persimmon is sweet and astringent in taste and cold in nature, and enters the spleen, stomach and lung meridians. Compendium of Materia Medica says:? Persimmon is the fruit of spleen and lung blood, so it has the functions of strengthening spleen, relieving cough and stopping bleeding, and persimmon itself is cold, so it is very suitable for dry and hot cough, stomach heat and polydipsia, hemorrhoids and bleeding.
The analysis of nutritional components also shows that persimmon contains sucrose, glucose, fructose, protein, carotene, vitamin C, iodine, calcium and phosphorus, but the immature fruit contains a lot of tannins.
Fresh persimmons can only be eaten after they are astringent, and they can be eaten after they are cooked thoroughly. Cooked persimmons are generally soft. Or green persimmon can be eaten after astringency. This persimmon is usually hard, but the taste becomes crisp, sweet and delicious after astringency. Persimmons can be made into dried persimmons and dried persimmons.
Persimmon, a processed cake-like food, has enhanced the functions of moistening lung and astringing intestine, stopping bleeding and stopping dysentery, especially moistening intestine and stopping bleeding, but it is still cold. Therefore, it is more suitable for people with cough, hemoptysis, bloody stranguria, hemorrhoids and dysentery.
Persimmon cream, there is a layer of white persimmon cream on the persimmon, which is the sugar condensate oozing out when drying persimmon, showing white powder. This layer of persimmon cream is more focused on symptoms such as lung dryness, cough due to yin deficiency, sore throat and dry throat, and has strong lung moistening ability.
The real medicinal parts are actually persimmon stems and persimmon leaves. Persimmon stems are bitter and flat in taste, and enter the stomach meridian, which has the effect of lowering qi and stopping cough. This product is an important medicine for treating hiccups, and can be used to treat various hiccups with the symptoms.
Persimmon leaves taste bitter and cold, and return to the heart and lung meridians. It has the function of relieving cough and asthma. Suitable for lung distension, asthma, emphysema and various internal bleeding.
For normal health care, persimmon leaves and persimmon stems can be boiled into porridge, which can relieve cough, asthma and asthma.
Taboos 1, Persimmons are delicious, but don't eat them on an empty stomach, because persimmons contain a lot of persimmon pectin, gum, etc. These ingredients will condense into insoluble lumps when they meet gastric acid. Small lumps will be excreted with the stool, while large ones will be difficult to excrete and stay in the stomach, which will form? Stomach persimmon disease? , mild epigastric pain, nausea and vomiting, severe cases lead to gastric bleeding or gastric perforation.
2. Persimmons contain a lot of tannins, which will hinder the absorption of iron in food. People suffering from iron deficiency anemia or taking iron should not take persimmons.
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