Modern scientific research has proved that Ficus carica is a fruit that cannot be underestimated, and it is rich in protease, amylase, yeast, trace elements and vitamins, especially vitamin C, which is 2 times that of grapes.

Ficus carica leaves have certain medicinal value. They are mainly used to treat hemorrhoids, toxic swelling, heartache, detoxification, detumescence, circulation of qi and pain relief, etc. In fact, Ficus carica leaves are very practical. Many people will take Ficus carica leaves to soak in water to drink, and the effect is relatively good. It can clear away heat and relieve summer heat. It is very suitable to eat them in summer, but be careful not to overdo them. Excessive consumption is also very bad.

fumigation and washing the affected area with fig decoction can play a good role in detoxification, detumescence, qi circulation and pain relief. Children with vomiting and diarrhea can soak their feet after decocting fig leaves in water for three times a day. In addition, fig leaf decoction can also help improve hemorrhoids. Fig leaves have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, invigorating spleen and stomach, and relaxing bowels. For people with dry stools, taking figs and fig leaves has a laxative effect.

The main functions of Ficus carica leaves are clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, detoxicating and reducing swelling. Many Chinese medicine practitioners like to add some fig leaves when taking medicine, which can help improve the damp-heat diarrhea and carbuncle pain.

Ficus carica is not only a flavor fruit with rich nutrition, but also a Chinese herbal medicine with high medicinal and health care value. It is listed in the Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and there are 72 kinds of diseases in the Uyghur medicine book. There are many folk prescriptions of fig for treating diseases, which have good effects on hemorrhoids, habitual constipation, chronic gastritis, chronic enteritis, infantile diarrhea and so on. Most interestingly, in areas where figs are often eaten, cancer rarely occurs.

it is recorded in Chang's prescription: "fig can be decocted in water and taken orally three times a day, which can cure gastric pyloric cancer." Modern medical research has found that Ficus carica contains many anticancer active substances, such as benzaldehyde, psoralen, coumarins, furan aromatic compounds, macrocyclic terpenoids and bergamot lactone, etc. Especially Ficus carica is a selenium-rich plant, with high selenium content in its leaves and fruits, with selenium content of ·189ppm in its leaves and .54ppm in its fruits. The synergistic effect of the above anticancer substances can inhibit and destroy the production of protease in cancer cells, so that cancer cells lose nutrition and die, but there is no side effect on healthy cells.