Canarium fruit is used to treat sore throat and high fever.

Fish stewed with canarium fruit, salted canarium fruit, canarium fruit marinated in fish sauce and chili... are rustic and appealing dishes. Canarium fruit is also a medicinal remedy for preventing and treating respiratory illnesses during the cold, dry winter days.

For medicinal purposes, the white canarium fruit is commonly used. It has a sour, sweet, nutty, and fatty taste, and a warm nature. It acts on the lung and stomach meridians, promoting the production of body fluids, quenching thirst, clearing the voice, detoxifying fish poisoning, and relieving hangovers. According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, canarium fruit is primarily used to treat sore throats.

White plum:

To treat dry throat and cough causing insomnia (in autumn and winter): Crush 20-30 fresh Chinese olives (remove the pits) and drink the juice. You can add ginger, sugar, or honey to taste.

For acute and chronic pharyngitis, tonsillitis, dry and sore throat, and hoarseness: use salted Terminalia chebula like salted lemon to suck on or mix with water to drink. Fresh Terminalia chebula can also be combined to make a decoction to treat sore throat and reduce internal heat.

High fever, dry lips and mouth, thirst: crush the fruit of the Terminalia chebula tree and drink the juice.

For hoarseness and cough: Take 4 fresh Chinese olives, remove the pits, and crush them together with 10g of sliced ​​Scrophularia root. Put the mixture into an earthenware pot, add enough water to cover, and boil to make a drink. It has the effect of nourishing yin, reducing heat, benefiting the throat, clearing heat and detoxifying, and reducing swelling.

A drink to replenish fluids, treat coughs, and clear heat: 5 fresh Chinese olives (pitted), 5g of finely chopped Dendrobium nobile, 5g of finely chopped reed root, 5g of peeled water chestnut, 2 peeled pears, 10g of Ophiopogon japonicus, and 10 slices of lotus root. Boil all ingredients in 2 liters of water over low heat for 1 hour. Let cool, filter, and drink daily. Suitable for people who constantly feel dry mouth, frequently spit out saliva, have febrile diseases with excessive heat, and have dry lungs.

Cooling herbal drink: 20g of fresh Terminalia chebula (seeds removed), 4 bunches of fresh Reed roots (chopped). Boil everything with 0.5 liters of water for 30 minutes, strain and drink hot. Effects: Clears the lungs, benefits the throat, reduces inflammation, dissolves phlegm, clears liver and stomach heat, generates body fluids, relieves cough.

White Tiger and Green Fruit Soup: 1 kg of white radish, 5-6 fresh Chinese olives (quantity depends on the number of people). Simmer until tender (for several hours). Treats sore throat and swelling.

For crab and fish poisoning: boil 30g of Terminalia chebula in water and drink the decoction.

For drunkenness with vomiting and psychosis: crush fresh white olives, add water, squeeze out the juice, and drink immediately.

Black olives:It has an astringent, slightly sweet and sour taste, is non-toxic, and has cooling properties (cooling). It has anti-inflammatory, hemostatic, diuretic, and anti-swelling effects. To stop bleeding and reduce inflammation, soak black olives in salt water, then crush them and steam them to extract the liquid for soaking, rinsing, and gargling.

To treat dry cough: take 20 salted black olives, 50g of tofu skin, and enough water to boil, then strain and drink the liquid.

Dry mouth, sore throat, hoarseness: Chew black olives and swallow the juice. 7 olives a day for 3-4 consecutive days.

Chronic sore throat, cough with burning sensation in the throat: Boil Terminalia chebula with green tea and honey and drink the decoction.

Whooping cough (pertussis): Boil black olives with rock sugar and drink the resulting liquid.

NoteWhen eating the pulp of the black olive, the seeds should be separated (especially for children) when eating stewed black olives to prevent the seeds from slipping into the throat.

According to Health & Life