Sour food besides the familiar hawthorn? , ebony,? There is also a commonly used health good thing-papaya. But the papaya mentioned here is not the tropical fruit papaya we eat, but the medicinal papaya, also known as Xuanpapaya and Sticky Begonia, which mainly grows in the north.

When this kind of papaya is ripe, it comes from Huang Chengcheng. It smells very fragrant. It is the kind of fragrance that lingers between your fingers when you hold it or wrap it in your sleeve. Therefore, many people will pick the ripe papaya and put it on the bedside as a spice. At that time, in the darkness, my pillow suddenly smelled a little bit of honey, and the hissing aroma came continuously, as if I had washed my spleen and stomach, and I felt as if I had changed my heart.

But if you cut it open, you will find it very unpalatable, sour and astringent. It also has obvious sour taste. Of course, it is not as sour as ebony, but when the acid enters the liver, Xuan Chaenomeles can also nourish liver qi and nourish liver yin.

Northerners have a folk prescription, that is, cut this papaya into shreds and marinate it with a lot of sugar, because it is sour and astringent, and it can't be eaten without that kind of polysaccharide. After sugar stains, you can eat a little every day to treat chronic pharyngitis. Even after pickling with a lot of sugar, this shredded papaya still tastes sour. And when we eat papaya, what we want is its sour taste and astringency, and we use these medicinal properties to soften the liver and nourish yin.

Papaya is warm and sour, and belongs to liver meridian and spleen meridian. It has the effects of calming liver and relaxing muscles and tendons, promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals, eliminating dampness and regulating stomach. Compared with ebony, it is not so sour, so its germinal qi is slightly weaker. However, in the case of weak liver qi, papaya is more suitable. Mume doesn't smell fragrant, but papaya is different. It smells very sweet, and the fragrance is not pungent at all, especially soft and comfortable. This fragrance can strengthen the spleen and wake up the stomach, and can stick to the righteousness.

The natural aroma is healthy qi, which can eliminate evil spirits, eliminate filth, invigorate spleen, stimulate appetite and promote yang. And we smell the fragrance is absorbed by the lungs, and the fragrance of papaya can enter the liver and lungs, and then reach the pulse through the role of the lungs.

So you understand why we send flowers when we visit patients? If you ask me, it's better to send flowers than papaya ...

Papaya itself tastes very astringent, and astringency has the effect of convergence, so papaya is especially suitable for people with qi deficiency. For example, after childbirth, when the popularity of the elderly is relatively weak, you can use papaya, which not only nourishes yin, but also helps you keep healthy qi. In addition, the medicinal properties of papaya are relatively soft, so it is more suitable for people with weak bodies to use.

Moreover, because papaya is sour and astringent, it has both the power of hair growth and the power of collection, and the power of collection is more obvious than that of ebony. Therefore, for patients with complicated symptoms, such as those with excessive liver fire and insufficient liver yin, and because they like to eat raw and cold things all the year round, the cold coagulation of middle jiao is more serious, and they are patients with chronic cold. If they want to remove the cold of middle jiao and nourish liver yin, papaya is often used for conditioning.

The sour taste of papaya can soften the liver, and the astringent taste can converge the medicinal gas and store it there, so that the medicinal gas can play a role slowly and little by little. Some drugs that warm yang, such as ginger, are loose, and its pungent and warm qi will soon disperse, so it may not be easy to break the cold in the body at once. But the astringent power of ebony is here, so it will collect the warm gas of ginger in the middle coke and let it slowly go cold. But obviously, if the liver-qi stagnation is serious, it is not suitable to use papaya at this time, because its convergence force is not very strong, but it is still not conducive to the stagnation.

So, how to eat papaya? Of course, you can take medicine. In daily life, no one will eat fresh papaya raw, because it tastes terrible. Sugar-pickled papaya can be eaten as a folk prescription, but after all, it is a drug blindly. It is not recommended that you eat it casually, and you should not eat more at a time. We can't use too much papaya every time, otherwise the strength of acid harvesting is too strong, which will easily lead to stasis.

On weekdays, people who are deficient in liver yin and weak in health can use papaya to make some dietetic medicines if they can buy fresh papaya.

You can use a fresh papaya, 5 jujubes,150g peanuts, and some rock sugar to make papaya peanut jujube soup. When making, you only need to peel and core papaya, wash it and cut it into pieces, then pour papaya, jujube, peanuts and rock sugar into the pot, boil it with high fire and cook it with low fire for about two hours.

If you can't buy fresh papaya, you can also go to the Chinese medicine shop to buy dried papaya. Of course, the amount will be reduced a lot. If you cook soup, it will be 6~9 grams.

In short, women with liver yin deficiency and spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should try papaya therapy!