Persimmon: A medicine that clears heat and detoxifies.

Persimmon is a delicious fruit and a precious medicine.

Persimmons are sweet, astringent, slightly cold, and non-toxic. Green persimmons have the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, and detoxifying. Ripe persimmons have the effect of replenishing deficiency, strengthening the stomach, lowering blood pressure, and moistening the lungs.

Persimmon is a precious thing, first of all is the white powder on the persimmon. It is a by-product of making dried persimmon, the white powder appears on the outside of the dried persimmon, is the essence of the persimmon, inside contains tangerine peel, glucose, fruit sugar, cane sugar... sweet and cool, enters the lungs and stomach, can clear heat and reduce inflammation, moisten the intestines, can treat diseases such as tongue with pimples, dry and painful throat, bronchitis, lung heat and coughing up blood.

Persimmons are bitter and neutral in taste, and contain many beneficial chemicals. They can lower adverse qi and eliminate evil thoughts, and can cure hiccups, medical qi, and nocturia. Persimmon leaves are made into persimmon leaf tea, which can be used as tea or mixed with tea leaves to drink. It is a healthy drink.

When using persimmons, it is important to note that people with external colds, cold in the middle, chest and abdomen distension, postpartum, illness, and children after smallpox are not suitable to eat persimmons.

Here are some medicinal recipes using persimmons as a flavor.

Recipe 1: Erpi Decoction: 9g persimmon peel, 9g cimicifuga, 30g winter melon, 6g dried ginger. Boil in water to drink, 1 decoction per day, drink in the morning and evening. Used for cold and dampness with diarrhea.

Recipe 2: Rose leaf tea: Almost ripe rose, honey 200g. Wash rose, remove stems, chop finely, pound, squeeze out the water with a cloth, put the water in a pot, first turn on high heat then low heat, boil until thick, add honey, boil again until thick, turn off heat, let cool, put in a jar, drink with hot water, 1 tablespoon each time, 3 times a day.

Effect: lower blood pressure, treat cardiovascular disease.

Lesson 3: 9g rose leaves, 9g scutellaria root. Dry, grind, 3g each time, drink with warm water.

Effect: Clears the liver, cools the blood, stops bleeding, can be used before menstruation.

Recipe 4: 30g dried persimmon, 50g brown sugar, mix with water to drink. Effect: Treats bleeding.

Lesson 5: 10 rose stems, boil in water and drink as tea. Effect: Treats hiccups.

Lesson 6: 2 dried persimmons, chopped and mixed with cooked rice, eaten continuously for 2 days. Effect: Treats nausea.

Lesson 7: Rose stem 10g, clove 5g, kumquat peel 10g, 2 pieces of raw ginger, boil in water to drink. Effect: Treats hiccups.

Lesson 8: 2 white dried persimmons, 50g brown rice, enough white sugar. First, cut the dried persimmons into 4cm pieces. Wash the rice and put it in a pot. Add about 1,000ml of water and cook into porridge. Effect: Treats diarrhea and dysentery.

Lesson 9: Wash 1 ripe persimmon, remove the stem, cut into 8 pieces, put in a pot, add white wine, bring to a boil, simmer over low heat until the persimmon is soft. Effect: Treats coughing up blood, vomiting blood.

Attention:Persimmons contain a lot of phenol and resin, which have medicinal properties. If eaten incorrectly, they can lead to diseases that are harmful to health. Therefore, when eating persimmons, you should note:

- Do not eat persimmons on an empty stomach, because when hungry, phenol resin and stomach acid or vegetable acid solidify into a hard mass, causing bloating, easily causing constipation, or in the elderly, easily causing intestinal obstruction.

- Do not eat persimmons with crab, because the protein in the crab will settle and solidify into a substance that is difficult to digest. If the solidified substance remains in the intestines for a long time, it will ferment, causing the eater to experience nausea, bloating, abdominal pain, diarrhea... that is food poisoning.

- Do not eat persimmons with potatoes, because after eating potatoes (sweet potatoes, potatoes...) the stomach will produce acid salts. Persimmons contain a lot of cellulose, phenol resin, fruit resin and acid salt water, which combine to form a jelly in the stomach.

According to Health & Life - NT