Dietotherapy and health care function of persimmon 1, clearing away heat and relieving cough: persimmon cream on persimmon has the effects of clearing away heat and moistening dryness, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and has obvious curative effect on cough due to lung heat, sore throat and sore mouth; 2, reducing qi and relieving cough: persimmon has a good therapeutic effect on hiccups, nausea, whooping cough and nocturia; 3, blood pressure, hemostasis, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory: persimmon leaves are made into tea, which can improve the body's metabolism, facilitate urination, defecate, purify blood, revive the body's tissues and cells, and are beneficial to stabilizing and lowering blood pressure, softening blood vessels, preventing arteriosclerosis and diminishing inflammation; 4, suitable for thyroid patients to eat: fresh persimmons have a high iodine content, and patients with goiter have certain benefits in eating persimmons; 5, prevention and treatment of constipation, hemorrhoids, etc.: eating persimmon can reconcile the gastrointestinal tract, which has certain benefits for the prevention and treatment of constipation and hemorrhoids bleeding. Persimmon persimmon tree is a special product in China, which has been cultivated for more than 3 thousand years. "Persimmon" was first seen in Book of Rites? 6? 1 neize, wild and widely distributed. It was introduced to Europe in the second half of the 19th century. At present, there are more than 200 persimmon varieties in China, which were cultivated in Han Dynasty. Persimmon, also called rice fruit and monkey jujube, belongs to Persimmon family. There are about 200 varieties. Nowadays, persimmon trees cultivated in Southeast Asia, Europe and America are mostly descendants of persimmon trees in China. There are many varieties of persimmons in China, mainly Shaanxi Jixin Yellow Persimmon and Pointed Persimmon, Beijing Dammopan Persimmon, Hebei Lotus Persimmon, Heze Mirror Persimmon, Henan Red Persimmon, Zhejiang Copper Persimmon and Square Persimmon, which are called famous persimmons. In addition, sweet persimmon in Yixian County, Hebei Province, golden bottle persimmon in Qingdao, Shandong Province, big flower persimmon in Meitan, Guizhou Province, and bell persimmon in Anhui Province are also valuable varieties. Persimmon can be divided into sweet persimmon and astringent persimmon. Sweet persimmons can be eaten when they are ripe, and astringent persimmons must be artificially processed to remove astringency before they can be eaten. Persimmons are sweet in taste, juicy and fine in flesh, and palatable. The ancients praised them: "Color is better than gold, and it is sweeter than jade." Persimmons are rich in nutrients and are full of treasures. Persimmon contains a lot of vitamins, which far exceeds that of apples, pears, peaches, apricots and plums. Fresh persimmon fruit also contains carotene, inorganic salts, minerals and flavonoids. Chinese medical experts in past dynasties have written about the role of persimmon. "Persimmon has the functions of clearing away heat, moistening lung, resolving phlegm and relieving cough," said Tao Hongjing in Liang Dynasty. According to Compendium of Materia Medica; "Persimmon is the fruit of spleen and lung blood. Its taste is sweet and flat, and its astringency can be harvested. Therefore, it has the functions of strengthening the spleen, astringing the intestines and stopping bleeding." Wang Shixiong, a famous medical scientist in the Qing Dynasty, wrote in the Diet Spectrum of Living with Interest: "Fresh persimmons are sweet and cold. Nourishing the yang of the lung and stomach is suitable for the body with dry fire and dry body fluid. Dried persimmon is sweet. Spleen and stomach, lungs and intestines, hemostasis and hunger, malnutrition, hemorrhoids and nausea. " Modern medical literature records that persimmon can tonify deficiency and strengthen spleen and stomach, clear away heat and moisten lung, promote fluid production to quench thirst, remove phlegm and relieve cough, lower blood pressure, increase blood flow of coronary artery, and have antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and antipyretic effects. Grinding sun-dried leaves into fine powder can treat thrombocytopenic purpura and various bleeding. Persimmon cream is sweet and contains mannitol, which is sweet in nature, can moisten the lungs and relieve cough, and can also treat children's mouth sores. Persimmon peduncle contains oleanolic acid and betulinic acid, which is commonly used in Chinese medicine to mix with ginseng and clove to make persimmon thread powder, which has the functions of reducing qi and stopping hiccups. The flowers, roots and skins of persimmons are also good medicinal materials. Persimmon trees can be called treasures all over. Persimmon is delicious, but it is not easy to overdo it. Pay special attention not to eat it in the abdomen. Because persimmon fruit contains more tannic acid, tannin and pectin, these substances will solidify into lumps when encountering gastric acid, which will make people feel full and abdominal pain, and will seriously cause gastrointestinal bleeding, gastric perforation and intestinal obstruction. In addition, physical weakness after illness, indigestion, exogenous cold, diarrhea and postpartum are not suitable for eating. Persimmon can't be eaten with crabs at the same time, and it is prone to abdominal pain and vomiting, which can cause poisoning in severe cases. Persimmon eaters should remember not to be careless.