Safflower fruit is also known as sand fruit Family for the Rosaceae plant Lin tackle fruit. Alias Wenlin fruit, flower red fruit, Lin tackle, five colors to come, Lianzhu fruit and so on. The fruit is flat in nature, sour and sweet in flavor; it enters the heart, liver and lung meridians. It is used to quench thirst and promote the production of body fluid, eliminate food stagnation and astringent. It can be used in treating thirst, consumptive-thirst, diarrhea, spermatorrhea and other diseases. Nutrition Facts Per 100g contains 82g of water, O.3g of protein, O.8g of fat, 15.1g of carbohydrates, 69kcal, 0.9g of crude fiber, 0.2g of ash, 45mg of calcium, 9mg of phosphorus, 0.9mg of iron, 0.05mg of carotenoids, 0.02mg of thiamine, 0.02mg of riboflavin, 0.2mg of niacin, 1mg of ascorbic acid. Potassium 148 mg, Sodium 0.9 mg, Magnesium 7.3 mg. Therapeutic effect of 1. thirst in the organic acids, vitamins in the sand fruit is very rich, eaten with thirst, food and stagnation of the role of the elimination of boredom and stagnation. 2. astringent dysentery Sha fruit flavor astringent and astringent, has a good astringent, on the role of dysentery, diarrhea and dysentery, spermatorrhea and ejaculation of people with good therapeutic products. 3. insect repellent Sha fruit root decoction with insect repellent, insecticidal effect, can cure the word inchworm, roundworm and other diseases. 4, bright eyes Shaguo leaves fresh or dried with, have a fire and bright eyes, kill insects and detoxification effect. Can be treated for blindness, cataract and pediatric scabies. Health care recipes 1. sand fruit soup sand fruit (half-ripe) 10. Wash and slice the fruit, put it into a pot, add 1000 ml of water and boil 50O ml. Each time to take 1 bowl, l day 2 times, even with the fruit with soup, fasting time to take down. This soup has the effect of harmonizing the stomach and resolving stagnation, stopping diarrhea and dysentery. Applicable to enteritis or dysentery caused by abdominal pain, diarrhea. 2. sand fruit juice sand fruit 3. After washing the sand fruit, remove the core mashed, twisted to extract its juice. 2 times a day, 10 milliliters each time. This juice has the stagnation, stop diarrhea effect. Apply to pediatric diarrhea of the disease. 3. sand fruit gorgonian soup fresh sand fruit 50 grams, 30 grams of gorgonian. Sand fruit first net cut, add gorgonian, then add water 3 bowls, *** decoction into a bowl of soup, divided into 2 times a day service. This soup has the effect of astringent spermatozoa, apply to men's spermatozoa slippery world of disease. 4. vinegar and sand fruit rice sand fruit 5, 50 grams of white vinegar. The sand fruit wash cut ten drying, drying research for fine rice, add white vinegar mixing into. Take 1 spoon each time, 2 times a day. This formula has the efficacy of moving qi, relieving pain, resolving phlegm and dispersing knots, and is suitable for pediatric scrofula and emaciation. Note: Sha Guo is astringent and should not be eaten more than once; it is not suitable for people with weak spleen and weak qi. Selected Literature "Food Therapy Materia Medica": "quench thirst"; "main valley dysentery. Sperm discharge". Rihuazi Materia Medica: "Lowering qi, curing cholera, stomachache, eliminating phlegm." Kaibao Materia Medica: "Not to be eaten in excess. It generates heat and astringent qi, makes people sleepy, generates cold phlegm, gives rise to boils and sores, and prevents the pulse from closing." Yunnan Materia Medica: "Treating all cold deposits and lumps, lack of vital energy, malaria-like but not malaria, and transforming all wind, phlegm and stagnant Qi." The Compendium of Medical Sciences: "Quenches thirst, removes vexation, relieves summer heat, and removes blood stasis." Cultural Appreciation Historical Legend: According to legend, when Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, Li Zhuan paid tribute with five-color crabapple, and Emperor Gaozong named Li Zhuan as "Wenlin Lang" for this purpose, so the fruit is also known as Wenlin Fruit.