The basal source is the fruit of the apple Malus pumila, family Rosaceae. Varieties include Fuji, Kokusai, etc.
Alias crabapple, crabapple fruit, peace fruit, wisdom fruit, memory fruit, Ringo, Laiko, Lianzhu fruit, Frequent Bo, Yanbo, Transcendent Son, Natural Son, Applesauce. Taste: cool, sweet, slightly acidic. FunctionsSupply of fluids to quench thirst, clearing heat and removing vexation. Nutritional composition edible part 76%. Each l00g contains 218kj of energy, 85.9g of water, 0.2g of protein, 0.2g of fat, 1.2g of dietary fiber, 12.3g of carbohydrates, 20μg of carotenoids, 3μg of retinol equivalents, 0.06mg of thiamine, 0.02mg of riboflavin, 0.2mg of nicotinic acid; Vitamin C4mg: Vitamin E 2.12mg; potassium 119mg Sodium, 1.6mg, calcium 4mg, magnesium 4mg, iron 0.6mg, manganese 0.03mg, zinc 0.19mg, copper 0.06mg, phosphorus 12mg, selenium 0.12 μg. still contains pectin, quinine acid, citric acid, tartaric acid and so on. In our country in ancient times, there is no "apple" word. Apple, the ancient name of "crabapple", "Ringo", "Ringo", "Lianzhu fruit", "Pimpa", "Yanbo", "Chaofanzi", "Natural Son", "Appleseed" and so on. It is native to the southern Caucasus and the coastal area of Persia. China's northwestern region is also one of the important birthplace of the apple, the history of cultivation has reached more than 2000 years, the world horticulture called "Chinese apple", belongs to one of the apple family, the other is called "Western apple". 19th century, the middle of European In the middle of the 19th century, European apples were naturalized in China, gradually replacing Chinese Mian apples. The European apple first settled in Yantai, Shandong, the late 19th century to the beginning of this century, Qingdao, Shandong and southern Liaoning, and successive introduction, and began to carry out economic cultivation. China, in addition to the original apple species, as the economic cultivation of the vast majority of apple varieties are introduced from Europe, the United States, Japan, the Soviet Union and other countries, known as the Western apple. Therefore, it is not too much to say that the apple is an ancient fruit.
Lin tackles taste sweet, can recruit a lot of birds to the forest perched down, so called Ringo. Li Shizhen said: Ringo's fruit is small and round. Among them off flavor sour is rowan. Others are Golden Ringo, Red Ringo, Water Ringo, Honey Ringo, and Black Ringo, all of which are named after the color and taste they have. There are also those that are colored like purple crabapple and do not bear fruit until winter. It is mainly used for lowering qi and eliminating phlegm, and for treating cholera and abdominal pain. Eaten by eunuchs who suffer from thirst. It is also used to treat watery dysentery, seminal emission, and pediatric flashing fetish. Eating it regularly causes fever and sores, and closes the hundred veins.
Dongxing root cures white worms, roundworms, thirst and good sleep.
This entry pertains to only two plants
One, native to China, the Rosaceae apple plant Ringo (Malus asiatica Nakai.) See the picture on the right, the name of this plant has a long history, many aliases, in the Song Dynasty painting "fruit ripe to birds can be clearly seen in the image, in the writings of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), its medicinal value has also been mentioned many times.
The apple plant was formerly known as Ringo. In the Song Dynasty, there was a song called "Ringo Flowers on the Seat".
Song Book - Xie Ling Yun Biography: "Loquat Ringo, with the valley reflecting the islet." Song Meng Yuanlao 《Tokyo Menghua Lu》："April 8：""This time, the confection is peach, plum, apricot, ringo and so on." Hu Yinglin (胡应麟)《少室山房笔丛-玉壶遐览二》："Wang Fanzhi didn't know his name. Wang Dehe, see the forest bird tree galls as big as a bucket, broken, in the child." Qing Gong Zizhen "across the stream plum order - that is the scene" words: "Ringo leaf leaves whisk monks window, flash green tank." Botanical name: Ringo
Scientific name: Malus asiatica Nakai.
Alias : Flowering red, Flowering red fruit, Shago, Pippa fruit, Wenlinlang fruit, Laiquiao ("Wang Youjun Post"), Wenlin fruit, Zhu Kaibao, five-color Ringo, Lianzhu fruit ("Zhiwenji"), Flowering red fruit ("Diannan Materia Medica"), Flowering red, Shago ("Pinhui Jingyao"), Linquiao ("Food and Wine Herb"), Honey bird ("Ning Yuan"), Honey bird (Malus asiatica), Honey bird (Malus asiatica), Honey bird (Ning Yuan), honey bird (Ning Yuan). Food and Wisdom of the Materia Medica"), honey fruit ("Qunfangbiao"), five-colored crabapple ("Compendium of the Medical God").
Family: Rosaceae, Apple Malus
Domestic distribution: Anhui, Nei Mongol, Liaoning, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Xinjiang. It is suitable for growing in sunny places on mountain slopes and sandy plains at an altitude of 50-2800 meters.
Traits: the product pear fruit compressed spherical, diameter 2.5-4cm, surface yellow to deep red, point-like yellow lenticels. The top is concave and there are vertical remnants of sepals, the bottom is y sunken. The smell is fresh and fragrant, and the flavor is slightly sweet and sour.
Original form: small tree, 4-6 m high. branchlets stout, densely pilose when young, dark purple-brown when old, glabrous. Leaves alternate; petiole 1.5-5cm long, pubescent; leaf blade ovate or elliptic, 5-11cm long, 4-5.5cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margins sharply serrate, pubescent above, gradually glabrescent, densely pubescent below. Flowers bisexual; corymbs with 4-7 flowers, clustered at the tips of branchlets; pedicels 1.5-2cm long, densely pilose; flowers 3-4cm in diameter; calyx tube campanulate, outside densely pilose; sepals 5, triangular-lanceolate, 4-5mm long, apex acuminate, entire, inside and outside densely pilose on both surfaces, sepals a little longer than calyx tube; petals 5, obovate or oblong-obovate, 8-13mm long, 4-7mm wide. 7mm, base shortly clawed, light pink, stamens 17-20, filaments unequal in length, shorter than petals; styles 4(5), base with long cervical hairs, slightly longer than stamens. Pear fruit ovoid or subglobose, 4-5 cm in diam. yellow or red, persistent calyx plump and elevated. Fl. Fruiting August-September.
Flower language: temptation Sour and sweet, flat.
①Thousand Jin - Food Cure: Sour, bitter, astringent, flat, non-toxic.
② "Gleanings from the Materia Medica": sweet flavor, non-toxic.
3 "Kai Bao Materia Medica": sour and sweet flavor, warm.
4 "Medical Forest Compendium": sweet, sour, salty, warm.
①The Materia Medica Renewal: It enters the heart, liver and lung meridians.
② "Materia Medica Summary": into the hands and feet of the Taiyin and Yangming meridians. Quenching thirst, resolving stagnation, astringent. Treatment of thirst, diarrhea, spermatorrhea.
① "Thousand Gold - Food Cure": quench thirst.
2 "Food Therapy Materia Medica": quench thirst. Main valley dysentery, spermatorrhea.
3 "Materia Medica Gleanings": the main water diarrhea, to remove the annoying heat.
4 "Rihuazi Materia Medica": lowering qi, treating cholera belly pain, eliminating phlegm.
5 "Yunnan Materia Medica": treating all cold deposits and lumps, lack of vital energy, like malaria but not malaria. It is also used to dissolve all wind-phlegm-qi stagnation.
6 The Compendium of Medical Sciences: quenching thirst, removing vexation, relieving heatstroke and removing blood stasis. (①) "Qianjin - Food Control": not to be eaten more than one, it will make the hundred veins weak.
② "Kai Bao Materia Medica": do not eat more, heat astringent qi, make people sleepy, cold phlegm, sores, pulse closure. ① treatment of water dysentery: Ringo half-ripe ten. Take water, decoct one liter, and eat it with empty heart. ("Food doctor heart mirror")
② treatment of pediatric dysentery: Ringo, the structure of the child. Mortar and pestle to take the juice. ("Zi Mu Secret Record")
③ treatment of pediatric flash fetish, hair yellow, scrofula lean: pestle and mortar Lingo end, and vinegar on the compress. ("Zi Mu Secret Record") "Fruit ripening to birds" album page, silk with color
Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing
This picture shows a branch of Ringo fruit, with a lot of fruits on the branch. A small bird perched on the branch with its tail up and its hairy chest lifted, making a gesture of desire to fly, a vivid and lovely image. Hanging heavy fruit of the branch, as if gently trembling. The fruit and leaves are carefully depicted on the front and back, and even the traces of insect erosion are quite clear. Although the picture is simple, it is full of vitality and interest, with strong emotional color. The whole picture is a masterpiece of flower and bird painting in the early Southern Song Dynasty, with fine brushwork and beautiful colors. This piece of paragraph signed "Lin Chun" two words, once the Song collection, "Shiqu Shishu three" famous.
Lin Chun, date of birth and death is unknown, the Southern Song Dynasty painter. Qiantang (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province). Xiaozong Chunxi (11 74-1189) for the Painting Academy to be imperial decree. Worked in painting flowers and birds, grasses and insects, fruits, to Zhao Chang as a teacher, the color is light, refined and realistic, good at embodying the form of nature, painted flowers and birds and fruits, small works for the most, then praised as "extremely sketch of the beauty of the warbler wants to fly up, just like to live". His works include Fruit and Birds, Plum, Bamboo and Cold Birds, and so on. . Nian Nujiao "on the seat of Ringo flowers"
Author: Zeng D??àêàêàêà
Groups of flowers are getting old, to the dawn of the rain, the heart of the first to be dismantled. The fragrance of the delicate red is exquisite, and I want to be overwhelmed by the colors of spring.
Pear blossoms in the light of the moon, the new sunshine and apricot, decorated into a standard pattern. The scenery is all there, half-open deep courtyard people silent.
Just to buy off the east wind, curling Luan branch low reflection, dance Yin song seat. I remember when I had **** appreciation, jade hand lightly pick.
Drunkenness is demonic, waking up charm, than and can end. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm sure I'll be able to do it," he said.