First, directly eat and clean, and then cut off five water chestnuts with a knife, mainly by cutting off thinner water chestnuts, without cutting off all the water chestnuts, so that there is not much left in the whole carambola, and then cut it into thin five-pointed stars with a knife, and you can eat it.

Second, mix white sugar. After washing the carambola, cut it into small pieces, then sprinkle some sugar and eat it together. It is sour and sweet, very good, and the pickled water is very delicious.

Third, stewed carambola with egg milk. Remove the hard edge of carambola, cut it into small pieces, put it in a pot with milk and sugar, then filter out the milk, beat two eggs and mix well, then add carambola pieces, put it in a pot and steam it over high fire until it solidifies. It has the effect of caring skin.

Fourth, make fruit salad. Wash carambola, apple, Sydney, jujube and strawberry with water, cut them into appropriate sizes, put them on a larger plate, add salad dressing and mix well to eat.

V. Carambola

Carambola, a plant of the genus Pentachyranthes of Oxalataceae, is used as medicine with roots, branches, leaves, flowers and fruits. Roots, branches and leaves can be harvested all year round; Picking flowers in late spring and early summer; Picking fruit in autumn. Fresh or dried.

Root: sour, astringent, flat.

Branches and leaves: sour, astringent and cool.

Flowers: sweet and flat.

Fruit: sour, sweet and flat.

Root: astringent essence, hemostasis and pain relief. Used for nocturnal emission, epistaxis, chronic headache and joint pain.

Branches and leaves: dispel wind and promote diuresis, reduce swelling and relieve pain. Used for wind-heat cold, acute gastroenteritis, dysuria, postpartum edema, traumatic injury, swelling and pain, carbuncle and toxic swelling.

Flowers: clearing heat. Used for cold and hot exchanges.

Fruit: promoting fluid production and relieving cough. Used for wind-heat cough, sore throat and malaria.

① Compendium: Indicating wind and heat, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.

2 "Lingnan Miscellanies": It can solve the poison of meat. It can also solve the haze.

(3) "Compendium": preserved or white honey collapsed, and those who are not acclimatized to soil and water and malaria can be cured.

④ "Lingnan Herb Collection Record": quenching thirst and relieving annoyance, removing heat, facilitating urination, removing children's mouth rot and treating snake bite.

⑤ Lu Chuan Ben Cao: Dispelling stagnation, detoxifying and cooling blood. Treat bad mouth and toothache.

⑥ Records of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine: Detoxify alcoholic intoxication and eliminate stagnation.