Lychees have high nutritional value and are particularly beneficial to the body’s nutritional supply. When you look at its translucent gelatinous texture, you may think of smooth skin, but in fact, lychee is really good for the skin. Lychee is rich in vitamins, which can promote blood circulation in microvessels, prevent the occurrence of freckles, and make the skin smoother. Lychee is juicy and sweet. Its rich sugar content can replenish energy and increase nutrition. Look at the red lychee, can it also replenish blood? The answer is yes, lychee is often used to treat anemia in women. Lychee is rich in vitamin C, protein, fat, fruit acid and other nutrients. Vitamin C and protein help enhance the body's immune function and improve disease resistance.
Benefits of eating lychee
1. Reduce swelling, detoxify, stop bleeding and relieve pain. In addition to its well-known nourishing effect, lychee can also be used for surgical diseases, such as tumors, scrofula, boils, malignant swelling, and traumatic bleeding.
2. Replenish energy and improve intelligence and brain. Lychee pulp is rich in glucose and sucrose, with a total sugar content of more than 70%, ranking first among many fruits. It has the effect of supplementing energy and increasing nutrition.
3. Nourish the brain. Lychee has a nourishing effect on brain tissue and can significantly improve insomnia, forgetfulness, fatigue and other symptoms. Lychee meat is rich in nutrients that can enhance immune function. The active substance is very suitable for diabetic patients.
4. Enhance immune function. Lychee meat is rich in vitamin C and protein, which helps enhance the body's immune function and improve disease resistance. Since ancient times, it has been regarded as a precious supplement
5 to lower blood sugar. Lychee contains an amino acid that has the effect of lowering blood sugar and is very suitable for diabetic patients.
6. Nourishing. Lychee can also reduce swelling, detoxify, stop bleeding and relieve pain. In addition to its well-known nourishing effect, lychee can also be used in surgery. Lychee fruit is rich in nutrients and has certain medicinal and nourishing effects.
7. Beauty. The rich sugar contained in lychees can supplement energy, fatigue and other symptoms; lychee meat is rich in vitamin C and protein.
8. Stop hiccups and diarrhea. Lychee is sweet and warm, strengthens the spleen, and can reduce phlegm. It is a good food therapy for those with stubborn hiccups and diarrhea at midnight.
The medicinal value of lychees
The nutritional value of lychees is so great, it is destined to have considerable medicinal value. Lychee can treat many diseases, such as female weakness and anemia, wind and fire toothache, enuresis in children, qi deficiency and cold pain, as well as pregnant women with unstoppable bleeding after abortion and postpartum hemorrhage. The following health experts list some lychee prescriptions for everyone.
1. To treat persistent hiccups: Seven lychees, including the skin and core, are burnt to preserve the nature; for the powder, add white soup.
2. Treat toothache caused by wind and fire: peel a large lychee, fill the shell with salt, grind it and apply it on it.
3. To treat boils and malignant swelling: three lychees and three white plums each. Pound it into cakes and stick it on the sores.
4. Treat Qi deficiency and cold pain: 5 lychee meats, boiled in 1 cup of wine and taken, it is effective after repeated use.
5. To treat frailty and anemia in women: seven each of dried lychees and jujubes, decocted in water and taken once a day.
6. To treat incessant bleeding and postpartum hemorrhage in pregnant women after abortion: Seven dried lychees (broken with shells and cores), boiled in two bowls of water until one bowl is consumed.
7. To treat enuresis in children: Eat ten dried lychees every day.
Who can’t eat lychees? Precautions for eating lychees:
Although lychees are good, they should be eaten in moderation. Experts remind: Do not eat large amounts of lychees continuously. In addition, although lychees are delicious, they are easy to cause internal heat, so not everyone is suitable for eating lychees. Who can't eat lychees?
1. People with yin deficiency and excessive fire, who often stay up late, and have bitter mouth and bad breath should eat less (it is best to control it within 0.25 pounds at a time);
2. People with chronic pharyngitis, long-term For people with acne and sores, eating more lychees will aggravate heat poisoning and deficient fire;
3. People with colds, acute inflammation, liver disease, kidney disease, diabetes, and gastrointestinal diseases are not suitable to eat lychees. Otherwise, the condition will be aggravated;
4. Children with severe internal heat should not eat it, and elderly people with constipation should try not to eat it.
5. People who are prone to allergies should eat with caution. After eating fresh lychees, they may experience allergic symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, rash and itching.
What should you do if you get angry after eating lychees?
1. Stewed mangosteen with green bean curd
Ingredients: 1/4 mangosteen, 15g each of northern and southern apricots, green bean curd 30g, 6 liang of pig, a corner of tangerine peel, make soup and drink.
Efficacy: It has the functions of moistening the lungs, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm. Suitable for rising deficiency fire, toothache, sore throat, dry mouth and sandy throat, acne, lung-heat cough, yellow phlegm, constipation, etc.
2. Soak in salt water
Peel off the lychee shell, but do not peel off the white film. After washing, soak it in 30% salt water. You can take it out in an hour, peel off the white film and eat it. After soaking in salt water, the irritation of the lychee is greatly reduced. If you soak a lot of lychees at one time and want to store them for a longer period of time, you can peel off the white film directly and soak the pulp in light salt water for an hour. Then take it out and put it in a crisper. Just put it in the freezer section of the refrigerator.