Fig, also known as Dezhen, Tianshengzi, Fresh Fruit and Salted Fruit, was widely cultivated as early as the Tang Dynasty in China and became one of the delicious fruits in autumn, which was deeply loved by people. Fig belongs to Moraceae, and its fruit is rich in glucose, fructose, sucrose, citric acid and a small amount of malic acid and succinic acid. Its dried fruit, immature fruit and plant milk all contain anti-tumor components, and the milk also contains starch sugar, ester, fat and protein. Modern research shows that Ficus carica has a certain laxative effect and can be used as a food laxative for constipation. The water extract of dried fruit has anti-tumor effect after treatment; Animal experiments show that Ficus carica has a certain antihypertensive effect.

In the long-term clinical practice, Chinese medicine has concluded that figs are mild and sweet. It has effects in invigorating stomach, clearing intestine, relieving swelling and detoxicating, and can be used for treating enteritis, dysentery, constipation, hemorrhoid, sore throat, carbuncle and scabies.

Picking ripe fresh fruit, drying in the sun, grinding into fine powder and blowing it on the throat can treat sore throat.

With 5-7 figs, decocted in water and eaten with fruit juice, chronic diarrhea can be cured.

Fresh figs are eaten raw, or dried fruits 10 tablets are added to a section of pig's large intestine, and taken after decoction, so as to treat hemorrhoids, proctoptosis and constipation.

Stew fresh figs or dried fruits with rock sugar and water, which can be used to treat dry throat and hoarseness caused by lung heat.

Pour about half a cup of fresh flower-free juice and take it with boiling water/kloc-0 times a day for several days, which can slow down the symptoms of asthma attack.

Bake fig, cut into small pieces, fry until brown, add appropriate amount of sugar, brew with boiling water, and drink tea instead. Can be used for gastrointestinal dyspepsia, anorexia, etc.

Peel the immature fig, grind it to get juice, and apply it locally. It can be used for warts twice a day for several days.

Besides the fruit of fig, the leaves and roots of fig can also be used as medicine. Zhu Zhenheng, a famous doctor in the Yuan Dynasty, once recorded that frying fig leaves into soup and often fumigation can cure hemorrhoid pain. Local fumigation and washing with fig leaf soup can cure sores and swelling. According to Hunan pharmacology, stewed lean pork with fig roots (fruit is also acceptable) or cooked with eggs, and eating meat or eggs can treat rheumatism, pain and numbness of bones and muscles. Remove the rough skin from the fig root, break it, and take it with boiling water, which can treat dry and itchy throat. In addition, 50 grams of fig root can be decocted in water and used to treat cervical lymph node tuberculosis.