Persimmon nutrition is richer, containing protein, less fat, more sugar, and starch, pectin, tannins, a variety of vitamins and a variety of inorganic salts, which is especially vitamin C and iodine content, and citrulline, persimmon gum phenols.

Persimmon should not be eaten more than one, one time to eat l ~ 2 can be. Persimmons should not be eaten on an empty stomach. Unripe persimmons can not be eaten. Persimmon skin can not be eaten. Before and after eating persimmons, do not eat vinegar, crabs.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that persimmons are sweet, astringent, cold, and belong to the lung meridian. In the Materia Medica Compendium, it is written that "persimmon is the fruit of the spleen, lungs and blood. Its taste is sweet and flat, astringent and can be collected, so it has the spleen and astringent intestines, coughing to stop bleeding." At the same time, persimmon, persimmon cream, persimmon leaves can be used as medicine.

Persimmon fruit taste sweet and astringent, cold, non-toxic; persimmon taste astringent, flat, into the lungs, spleen, stomach, large intestine meridian; there is heat to remove dryness, moistening the lungs to resolve phlegm, soften, quench thirst and promote the production of fluids, strengthen the spleen, cure dysentery, stop bleeding, etc., can alleviate the dryness of stools, hemorrhoids, pain or bleeding, dry cough, sore throat, hypertension and other conditions.

So persimmon is a natural health food for patients with chronic bronchitis, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, internal and external hemorrhoids.