Sexual taste is flat and sweet; Entering the heart, spleen and stomach.
The medicinal effects of Ficus carica and its indications are invigorating the spleen, promoting digestion, relaxing bowels, relieving sore throat, relieving swelling, detoxifying and resisting cancer. Indications are dyspepsia, constipation, hemorrhoids, rectocele, furuncle, sore throat, cough due to yin deficiency and lung heat.
The dietotherapy and health care function of fig
1.Spleen-invigorating, digestion-promoting, and bowel-relaxing Figs contain malic acid, citric acid, lipase, protease, hydrolase, etc., which can help the human body digest food and promote appetite, and because it contains a variety of lipids, it has the effect of relaxing bowels.
2. Lowering blood fat, lowering blood pressure Lipases and hydrolases contained in figs have the functions of lowering blood fat and decomposing blood fat, so they can lower blood fat and reduce the deposition of fat in blood vessels, thereby lowering blood pressure and preventing coronary heart disease.
3. Relieving sore throat and relieving swelling Ficus carica contains citric acid, fumaric acid, succinic acid, malic acid, propiolic acid, oxalic acid, quinic acid and other substances, which have anti-inflammatory and detumescence effects.
4. Supplementing nutrition Ficus carica contains a lot of sugars, lipids, protein, cellulose, vitamins, inorganic salts and essential amino acids, which can effectively supplement the nutritional components of the human body and enhance the body's disease resistance.
5. Anti-cancer Immature fruit contains active ingredients such as psoralen and citronolactone, and an aromatic substance "benzaldehyde" can be extracted from the juice of mature fruit. Both of them have anti-cancer effects, which can prevent the occurrence of liver cancer, lung cancer and gastric cancer, delay the development of transplanted adenocarcinoma and lymphosarcoma, and promote their degradation.
Selected literature on fig "Herbal Medicine in South Yunnan": "Clearing the throat, opening the diaphragm, eliminating phlegm and resolving stagnation. Apply all unknown swelling, carbuncle, furuncle, tinea and sore, yellow water sore, fish mouth poison, milk knot and acne sore, and adjust sesame oil to rub it. " Materia Medica of Food: "Appetite, stop diarrhea." "Living with Interest Diet Spectrum": "Clearing heat and moistening intestines."
Nutritional value and components of Ficus carica100g Ficus carica contains 81.3g of water, 0.5g of protein/kloc-0, 0.1g of fat, 3g of crude fiber, 0/3g of carbohydrate1. Riboflavin 0.02 mg, nicotinic acid 0. 1 mg, ascorbic acid 2 mg, vitamin E1.82 mg, potassium 2 12 mg, sodium 5.5 mg, calcium 67 mg, magnesium 17 mg, and iron 0.1. In addition, it also contains citric acid, fumaric acid, succinic acid, malic acid, propiolic acid, oxalic acid, quinic acid, lipase, protease and various amino acids necessary for human body.
Introduce several therapeutic and medicinal recipes of fig:
Fig porridge material: fresh figs 10, japonica rice IOO grams, 50 grams of rock sugar. Practice: 1, wash the figs first, and wash the japonica rice for later use; 2. Take a crock, add japonica rice and 500 ml of water, boil over high heat, add figs and rock sugar, and simmer for 25 minutes with low heat. Eat it warm. Efficacy: This porridge has the effects of invigorating spleen, stopping diarrhea, clearing throat and reducing swelling. Applicable to: spleen and stomach weakness, loss of appetite, dyspepsia, diarrhea, lung heat cough, sore throat, hemorrhoid bleeding and other diseases.
Materials of candied dates and figs: 2 fresh figs, 2 candied dates and 20g rock sugar. Practice: first wash the figs, put them in a bowl with candied dates, and stew them in water; Rock sugar is crushed and ground into fine powder, transferred into the fruit paste, stirred evenly, and served warm. Efficacy: This fruit has the efficacy of moistening lung, relieving cough and relieving sore throat. Suitable for patients with yin deficiency, dry cough, sore throat and hoarseness.
Materials for stewed pig's trotters with figs: dried figs100g, and two pig's trotters100g. Practice: 1, first remove the pig's trotters, wash them, and cut them along the toe seam for later use; 2. Put the wok on the fire, add clear water (subject to drowning pig's trotters), pig's trotters, figs and appropriate amount of refined salt. After boiling over high heat, simmer over low heat until cooked, and add monosodium glutamate. Efficacy: This dish has the function of nourishing blood and promoting lactation. Suitable for: it can be used for postpartum lactation of women. Eating it for the sick can strengthen the body, moisten the skin and beautify the face.
Precautions: Patients with cerebrovascular accident, fatty liver and normal potassium periodic paralysis should not eat figs; People with thin stools should not eat raw food.