Medicinal value

"Compendium of Materia Medica" contains: lychee has the effect of tonifying the spleen and benefiting the liver, generating fluids and stopping eruptions, eliminating swellings and pains, suppressing coughs and nourishing the heart. But Li Shizhen said: "Litchi odor pure Yang, its nature is slightly hot. Fresh people eat more, that is, swollen gums and mouth pain."

Root: slightly bitter, astringent, warm. Reduces swelling and relieves pain. Used for gastric distension and pain.

Leaf:

Pulp: aril, sweet, sour, warm. Benefiting qi and tonifying blood. Used for weakness after illness, prolonged diarrhea with spleen deficiency, and hematochezia.

Kernel: sweet, slightly bitter, astringent, warm. Regulating Qi, dispersing knots, relieving pain. Used for hernia pain, syringomyelia, testicular swelling and pain, stomach pain, dysmenorrhea

Functions

Lychee taste sweet, sour, warm, into the heart, spleen, liver meridian; pulp has the spleen, liver, qi and blood, warming pain, tonifying the heart and tranquillizing the spirit of the efficacy of the kernel has the effect of regulating qi, dispersal of knots, pain; can be to stop eructations, diarrhea, is the intractable eructations and the five diarrhea of the person of the best therapeutic food, and at the same time there are tonifying the brain, fitness, appetizer and spleen, has the brain, the body and mind. At the same time, it has the effect of tonifying the brain and fitness, appetizing and benefiting the spleen, and promoting appetite.

1) "Herbal medicinal properties of the raw herbs to prepare": soaked in water for a few days, paste rotten feet.

② "Quanzhou Materia Medica": the treatment of ulcers after the ear, sun-dried, burned to preserve the nature of the powdered tea oil, wipe the affected area.

Accessory

The treatment of asthma: 100 grams of lychee bark, decoction of water to drink tea.

Eating value

Lychee rich in sugar has to replenish energy, fatigue and other symptoms; lychee meat is rich in vitamin C and protein; lychee has a wealth of vitamins, can promote blood circulation in the microvessels, to prevent freckles, so that the skin is smoother.

Food partner

1, lychee + red dates

Lychee is rich in vitamins, can promote microcirculation of capillaries; red dates have the role of nourishing blood and replenishing blood. Eating together, can play a better blood and beauty effect.

2, lychee + green bean soup (green tea, herbal tea, light salt water)

Lychee eat more fire, and green bean soup (green tea, herbal tea, light salt water) is to defeat the fire. Eating the same food, can reduce the effect of fire.

3, lychee + aquatic (poultry)

Lychee into the dish, generally with aquatic or poultry and other "white meat" with: one because of color considerations; two because of these "white meat" in the taste is also easy and lychee mutual support. One of the most suitable is seafood, because the coldness of seafood can neutralize the heat of lychee.

Consumption taboos

1, lychee - cucumber, pumpkin, carrots, animal liver

Cucumber, pumpkin, carrots in the vitamin C decomposition enzyme, will destroy the lychee in the vitamin C, animal liver in the copper, iron ions can also destroy the lychee in the vitamin C. Lychee and these foods with food will make the original nutritional value is reduced, so should not be eaten with the food. Nutritional value is reduced, so should not be eaten together.

2, lychee - plum

The two are warm, easy to eat more fire, with food, more prone to fire.

Precautions

Before and after eating lychee appropriate drink some salt water, herbal tea or green bean soup, or fresh lychee peeled and dipped into lightly salted water, put into the freezer after the ice to eat. This will not only prevent the fire, but also has the effect of waking up the spleen and eliminating stagnation.

Also, drinking water decocted with lychee shells can relieve lychee fever. Adults should generally not eat more than 300 grams of lychee per day, and children should not eat more than 5 at a time.

Suitable for people

Litchi is suitable for weak, insufficient fluid after illness, anemia; suitable for diarrhea of spleen deficiency or the elderly five diarrhea, stomach cold pain; also suitable for people with bad breath.

Avoid eating people

Lychee is hot, bleeding patients, women pregnant and children should avoid eating. Anyone who is a Yin deficiency fire hot body to avoid eating; diabetic patients to avoid eating. Lychee can not eat more, more food fever; elderly people eat more lychee can aggravate constipation. Long acne, sores, cold and flu or acute inflammation, it is not suitable to eat lychee, otherwise it will aggravate the disease.