The most common way to eat Siraitia grosvenorii in our place is to soak in water.
Method 1. Crush it, take some shells and cores, put them in a hot kettle, and pour them out when you want to drink.
Method 2: Crush, take a part of the shell and core, put it into a cup (preferably a cup with a lid) and pour it into hot water. After a few minutes, the water will change color and you can drink it.
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Siraitia grosvenorii can also be eaten like this:
Siraitia grosvenorii is mainly eaten by making tea. Drill a small hole at both ends of the fruit, put it in a teacup and pour in boiling water. Soon, various nutrients in fruit and water are dissolved, which is an ideal health drink with rosy color, sweet taste and mellow smell. Siraitia grosvenorii can generally be brewed for four or five times. If you can choose high-quality fruits with round brown color, big head and strong fruit, you can increase the brewing times. If you put a Siraitia grosvenorii in the soup, it will make the whole soup moist and sweet.
Lohan fruit tea:
Lohan fruit tea is a fine bubble made of Siraitia grosvenorii and high-quality tea. Convenient small package that can be washed with warm water. The aroma is rich, sweet and refreshing, and it can produce body fluid to quench thirst, clear liver and moisten lung, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough, and the moon is beneficial to thinking, with endless aftertaste. Siraitia grosvenorii can also be paired with green tea, osmanthus, mung beans and so on. Make a unique healthy drink.
Siraitia grosvenorii slimming health tea:
Take Siraitia grosvenorii 10g, honey, hawthorn slices 10g, and purified water 250g. Clean fructus Siraitiae Grosvenorii, pulverizing, clean fructus crataegi, and putting into a pot together with fructus Siraitiae Grosvenorii. Add water to the pot, boil it over high fire, remove the residue and leave the juice and pour it into the cup. Finally, put a proper amount of honey into the cup and stir it evenly to become a summer drink.
Take 20g of Siraitia grosvenorii and soak it in boiling water15min. This prescription has the effects of clearing away lung-heat, relieving cough, moistening intestine and relaxing bowels, protecting throat, and treating hoarseness, cough discomfort and sore throat caused by wind-heat invading lung. Siraitia grosvenorii scented tea has the same effect, but it can only be brewed with boiling water at about 80℃.
Lohan candy drink:
250 grams of Siraitia grosvenorii, appropriate amount of sugar. Pulverize fructus Siraitiae Grosvenorii, adding appropriate amount of wat, decocting for 3 times, decocting for half an hour each time, steam with low fire until thick, cooling, adding white sugar, mixing, drying in the sun, pulverizing, and bottling for later use. Take about 10g each time and brew with boiling water.
Siraitia grosvenorii red jujube tea:
2 Siraitia grosvenorii, lotus root 1 knot, 7 dried red dates, 45g rock sugar and 600ml clear water. Wash lotus root, peel it, cut it into 1cm thick discs, soak dried red dates in warm water for15min, and rinse off. Put water and rock sugar in the pot, add Siraitia grosvenorii and red dates after the fire boils, and simmer for about 20 minutes. Then put the lotus root slices in, and simmer for 15 minutes.
Siraitia grosvenorii is rich in vitamin C, cool and sweet, and has the functions of diminishing inflammation, clearing away heat, relieving sore throat and moistening throat. It can also reduce blood lipid, help treat hyperlipidemia and improve the image of obese people. When cooking, you can break Siraitia grosvenorii, so that the taste will be stronger and the medicine will penetrate into the soup more easily.
Siraitia grosvenorii pork lung soup:
65438 Siraitia grosvenorii+0,250g pig lung. First cut the pig lung into small pieces, squeeze out the foam, and add water to the soup with Siraitia grosvenorii to taste. This recipe has the effects of nourishing lung and yin, clearing throat and benefiting diaphragm.
Siraitia grosvenorii japonica rice porridge:
250g of Siraitia grosvenorii, 50g of japonica rice, proper amount of refined salt and monosodium glutamate. Crushing Siraitia grosvenorii, adding appropriate amount of water, decocting for 3 times, and filtering residue with gauze. Wash polished rice with clear water and add it to Siraitia grosvenorii soup to cook porridge. The porridge is boiling. Turn down the heat and continue to cook until the rice is rotten. Add refined salt and monosodium glutamate and serve.
Qingxin Runfei Decoction; Soup: Siraitia grosvenorii 1 (10g), 2 red dates (20g), Polygonatum odoratum 20g, 4 candied dates (40g), Lily 10g, Nanxing 10g, and sword flower 30g.
Materials: 300g of cavity bone, 200g of pig spine, 65438 pieces of old ginger+0 tablets of water, 200ml teaspoon (5g) of salt.
Practice;
1, peeled and washed ginger. Wash the cavity bone and pig spine, and then cut the pig spine into small pieces of about 2 cm.
2. Pour the water into the pot. After the water is boiled, pour in the cavity bone and pig spine, cook until it becomes discolored, take it out, and rinse off the floating powder with water. Then wash the soup with water.
3. Pour the cleaned cavity bone and pig spine into the soup pot and add enough water (about 2000 ml) at one time.
4. After the water is boiled, skim the floating powder with a spoon, add the Jiang Mo which is slightly scattered with a knife, pour it into the soup, cover it, simmer for 2 hours on low heat, then turn off the fire and add salt before drinking.
Siraitia grosvenorii is suitable for people:
1. Suitable for aphonia, tonsillitis and pharyngolaryngitis;
2. Exogenous diseases, lung cold and cough should be used with caution.
Dietotherapy effect of Siraitia grosvenorii;
Siraitia grosvenorii tastes sweet and cool; Meridian of lung and spleen; Light and moist body;
Has the functions of clearing away lung-heat, relieving sore throat, resolving phlegm, relieving cough, moistening intestine and relaxing bowels;
Indications: phlegm-fire cough, sore throat, thirst due to summer heat, intestinal dryness and constipation.
Guide to Siraitia grosvenorii practice:
1. Treat aphonia caused by sore throat. 1 Siraitia grosvenorii, sliced, decocted in water, cooled and taken orally.
2. Treat patients with lung heat, yin deficiency, phlegm cough and tuberculosis. Siraitia grosvenorii100g, loquat leaf150g, adenophora adenophora150g, platycodon grandiflorum150g. Decoct in water twice, combine decoctions, filtering, standing that filtrate for 24 hour, concentrating the supernatant to a proper amount, adding sucrose to dissolve, and concentrating to 1000 ml. Take 10 ml orally, three times a day.
3. Treating lung dryness, expectoration, dry throat and dry mouth, half of Siraitia grosvenorii, 6g of dried tangerine peel, and 0/00g of lean pork. First soak the dried tangerine peel, scrape off the white, and then cook the soup with Siraitia grosvenorii and lean meat. When cooked, go to Siraitia grosvenorii and Chenpi for soup and meat.
4. Treat acute and chronic bronchitis, tonsillitis, throat and constipation. Siraitia grosvenorii 15 is 30g, boiled and used as tea.
5. You can make fruit tea, porridge and soup.
Treatment prescription of autumn health care arhat fruit tea
[1] 1. Luohan Ficus attack: 20g of Siraitia grosvenorii, 20g of fruit without tea, sliced, boiled in boiling water for15min, and then used as tea. The tea has the effects of clearing away lung heat, relieving cough and moistening intestine. It can protect the voice, especially for teachers and actors who often drink, and has a good effect on hoarseness caused by wind-heat invading the lungs.
2. Lohan Xiakucha: 1 Lohan, 15g Prunella vulgaris. Put Luohan and Prunella vulgaris together in a pot and fry them in water for three times. Combine the medicinal juices, add appropriate amount of brown sugar, and stir well to drink. This prescription has the functions of clearing away lung-heat, moistening intestines, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and can treat acute and chronic laryngitis and acute and chronic bronchitis.
3. Luohan Wumei Tea: Luohan 15g, Wumei, Schisandra, 5g each, and licorice, 3g. Firstly, Siraitia grosvenorii and Mume Fructus were washed and mashed, put into a casserole together with Schisandra chinensis and Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch, and decocted in water to get juice, which has the effects of invigorating middle-qi and clearing away lung heat and relieving sore throat. Regular drinking can treat chronic bronchitis, acute and chronic tonsillitis, whooping cough, pharyngolaryngitis and hoarseness.
4. Siraitia grosvenorii mint tea: 30g of Siraitia grosvenorii, 0g of mint10g, 5g of olive and 3g of licorice. First, slice Siraitia grosvenorii, cut mint into small pieces, break olives, and fry with licorice to get juice. It has the effects of promoting fluid production and moistening dryness, relieving sore throat and moistening throat, and has a good curative effect on pharyngolaryngitis, aphonia, summer heat and polydipsia, phlegm-fire cough, short and red urine and other symptoms.
Five, arhat fruit tea: two Siraitia grosvenorii, shelled and mashed or sliced and boiled with water 1 min. It has the functions of relaxing bowels, clearing away lung heat and relieving sore throat, and is suitable for constipation, pharyngolaryngitis, aphonia, itchy throat, summer heat and polydipsia caused by various reasons.
Perennial herb lianas, born in mountainous areas with an altitude of 300-500 meters, are 2-5 meters long. The stems are slender and dark purple. Tendrils 2 diverge almost in the middle. Leaves alternate, petiole 2 ~ 7 cm long; Leaf blade is cordate-ovate, membranous, 8 ~ 15 cm long and 3.5 ~ 12 cm wide, with acute or acuminate apex, ear-shaped heart-shaped base, entire, and white hairs on both sides. Flowers dioecious, male inflorescence racemose, female flowers solitary; Calyx funnel-shaped, pilose, 5-lobed, corolla orange-yellow, 5-lobed, apex acuminate, outside white with brown pilose. The fruit is round or oblong, pilose, longitudinal line 10, and the seeds are light yellow. The flowering period is June-August, and the fruiting period is 8-65438+1October.
Well-bred. Mainly produced in Guangxi, especially in Yongfu County, Guilin City, Guangxi, and distributed in Jiangxi and Guangdong.
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This product is oval, oval or spherical, with a length of 4.5 ~ 3.5 ~ 6 cm and a diameter of 3.5 ~ 6 cm. The surface is brown, yellowish brown or greenish brown, with black spots and yellow fur, and some have 6 ~ 1 1 longitudinal stripes. There are traces of style at the top and traces of fruit stalks at the bottom. Light weight, crisp quality, thin skin and easy to break. The pulp (mesocarp and endocarp) is spongy and light brown. The seeds are mostly oblate, about 65438±0.5cm long and 65438±0.2cm； wide. Wide; Light red to brownish red, slightly concave in the middle of both sides, with radial grooves around and grooves on the edge. Slight breath, sweet taste.
Microscopic identification of cross section of pericarp; The epicarp is 1 row of flat epidermal cells, and the epicarp is 1 row of flat epidermal cells, surrounded by the stratum corneum, with a thickness of 4- 12μm and slightly prominent stomata. Sometimes multicellular non-glandular hairs or basal residues can be seen. There are 4-6 rows of round or tangentially elongated parenchyma cells outside the mesocarp; There are 6-9 rows of stone cell layers inward, and the cells are round, rectangular, square or irregular polygon. Near the inner side of the stone cell layer, there are a series of large irregular polygonal cells with slightly thick walls and holes. Its internal series of seven-walled cells often atrophy or degenerate; Vascular bundles are double-tough, often with internal and external connections and sparse distribution. Endocarp is 1 row of flat cells.
Cross section of seed: epidermis is 1 row of shed-like cells, with a length of 205-280μm and a width of12-30μ m. The epidermis on the left and right sides is mucus, and there are several layers of tangential elongated parenchyma. There are several layers of thick-walled fibers and large stone cell layers under the grid cells, which are nearly species.
chemical composition
It contains esculin, which is 300 times sweeter than sucrose. It also contains fructose, amino acids, flavonoids and so on. The non-sugar sweet components in fruit are mainly triterpenoid glycosides: mogrosides Ⅴ and Ⅳ [1-3], the sweetness of glycoside Ⅴ is 256-344 times that of sucrose, and the sweetness of glycoside Ⅳ is 126 times that of sucrose, and it is not sweet without glycoside Ⅳ [4]; The second is D- mannitol, the sweetness of which is 0.55-0.65 times that of sucrose [5]. It also contains a lot of glucose [6], and fructose accounts for 14%[4]. It also contains 26 inorganic elements such as manganese, iron, nickel, selenium, tin, iodine and molybdenum [7], protein, vitamin C and so on. The oil content of nuts is 4 1.07%, and the fatty acids in the base are linoleic acid, oleic acid, palmitic acid, stearic acid, palmitoleic acid, myristic acid, lauric acid and decanoic acid.
The nucleoli are arranged in a ring. The inner epidermis is 1 row of flat small cells. Endosperm cells 1-2 rows. Cotyledon cells contain fat oil droplets.
Growth habit
1. Growth habit of Siraitia grosvenorii: Siraitia grosvenorii likes shade, with large temperature difference between day and night and long frost-free period. Not resistant to high temperature, vines grow rapidly at 22 ~ 28℃, plants grow poorly above 34℃, and plants stop growing below 15℃.
2. Flowering habit of Siraitia grosvenorii: According to different management levels, the mother shavings of Siraitia grosvenorii generally bloom on the second to fourth lateral vines, and the temperature is 22.5℃ ~ 28.5℃. From July to August, the flowering time of male and female flowers is from 6: 30 to 7: 00 in the morning. From June to September, the temperature is slightly lower, and the flowering time is postponed to 7-9: 00 in the morning. The rainy day was postponed to 9 ~ 10.
3. Fruit growth habit of Siraitia grosvenorii: The chamber of Siraitia grosvenorii was significantly enlarged on the 3rd day after pollination, and the young fruit grew rapidly on the 8th to 20th day. After 30 days, the volume stops expanding, and it is round or oval, and the maturity period from flower withering to fruit ripening is 65-75 days.
Siraitia grosvenorii is a short-day crop. It only needs 7-8 hours of light every day, which is humid and foggy. It is required that the air relative humidity is 75-85%, and the rainfall is abundant and even, and the annual rainfall is about 1 900 mm, so as to avoid waterlogging. It should be loose, fertile, well-drained, deep and moist soil.
Biological properties
(1) Environmental requirements:
Siraitia grosvenorii is distributed in Guangxi, Guangdong, Hunan and other provinces in southern China. It is distributed in subtropical hillside forests, wet areas along rivers or shrubs at an altitude of 300 ~ 1400 meters. In the long-term individual development, there are certain requirements for environmental conditions.
① Humidity: Siraitia grosvenorii likes the environment with humid temperature and large temperature difference between day and night, which is not resistant to high temperature and just frosted and cool.
(2) illumination: prefer light to strong light, and 7-8 hours of illumination every day can meet its development needs.
③ Moisture: Grown branches and leaves of Siraitia grosvenorii have large nutrient area, long flowering period and long fruiting time, so they need to absorb a lot of water from the soil.
④ Siraitia grosvenorii is not strict with soil. Except sand and clay, it is suitable for yellow soil and black soil, especially for soil with deep humus. It is best to choose the southeast slope of the mountainside with Woods and bamboo forests.
(2) Growth and fruiting habits:
① Growth habit: Siraitia grosvenorii is a climbing herb with large tubers and has been growing for many years.
② Flowering habit: Siraitia grosvenorii is a dioecious plant, which develops from hermaphroditism to parthenocarpy and from hermaphroditism to parthenocarpy.
③ Fruiting habit: Siraitia grosvenorii enters fruiting period sooner or later, which is related to varieties, cultivation management level and propagation mode.
principal item
⑴ Green tangerine peel fruit: robust plant, high yield and strong adaptability; Early fruiting, high yield and medium quality. At present, it is widely used in production, the cultivation area accounts for more than 90%, and it can be planted in mountainous areas and plains.
⑵ Chili sauce fruit: also known as Chili sauce, it is cultivated by the seedlings of long beach fruit used by fruit farmers in Chili sauce village, Longjiang Township, Yongfu County, Guangxi. Its fruit is oval, rectangular or pear-shaped, with wide adaptability, suitable for planting in mountainous or hilly areas, vigorous plant growth and good quality.
⑶ Longtanguo: Originated from the riverside of Baoan Village, Longjiang Township, Yongfu County, Guangxi, it is the best cultivated variety at present. The fruit is oblong or oval, the skin is tender and fluffy, the top is slightly concave, and the skin has obvious veinlets.
⑷ Red Hairy Fruit: This variety has strong adaptability, strong plant growth and high yield, and tender vines and young fruits are densely covered with red wart gland scales; The fruit is small and shaped like a pear-shaped short circle.
5. Wax gourd fruit: The plant of this variety grows vigorously, and the fruit is long and cylindrical, with both ends flush, resembling wax gourd and seeds and melon seeds; The leaves are triangular and heart-shaped, the fruit is densely pilose, and the yield is good, which is suitable for planting in low mountainous areas.
[6] Tea tree, originally wild in Camellia oleifera forest, was cultivated by artificial selection.
At present, the varieties widely used in production are mainly round green fruit, red fruit and chashan fruit, which have wide adaptability and high yield.
[Edit this paragraph] Medicinal value
Siraitia grosvenorii is a unique and precious cucurbitaceae plant in China, which is known as the "medicine fruit". Fruits are rich in glucose, fructose and vitamins, which are widely used, sell well in domestic and foreign markets and enjoy a high reputation in the international market.
pharmacological action
1. Cough relieving effect: D- mannitol has cough relieving effect. It can also be used for brain edema, which can increase blood osmotic pressure and reduce intracranial pressure. The dehydration effect is stronger than that of urea and lasts for a long time. It can also be used to treat edema caused by extensive burns and scalds, prevent and treat acute renal failure, reduce intraocular pressure and treat acute glaucoma, and replace sugar as a dessert or flavoring agent for diabetic patients.
Physical shooting of Siraitia grosvenorii origin 2. Effect on intestine: Siraitia grosvenorii fitness tea (containing 77.5% Siraitia grosvenorii, 15% tea and 7.5% Siraitia grosvenorii preparation) has no obvious effect on spontaneous activity of isolated small intestine in mice, but it can enhance spontaneous activity of isolated small intestine in rabbits and dogs. It can antagonize the intestinal tension contraction caused by acetylcholine or barium chloride, relax the intestine and relieve spasm; It also has antagonistic effect on intestinal relaxation caused by adrenaline, and makes the intestine resume spontaneous activity. It shows that Siraitia grosvenorii fitness tea has a two-way regulating effect on intestinal peristalsis.
3. Other effects: Siraitia grosvenorii health tea has no effect on normal rabbit stomach bioelectricity, that is, it does not affect normal digestive tract motor function. Siraitia grosvenorii fitness tea has no obvious effect on blood pressure and electrocardiogram in anesthetized dogs.
Suitable crowd
According to the efficacy of Siraitia grosvenorii herbal tea, the following six groups of people need it especially:
1, people who often smoke and drink and need to wash their lungs, protect their livers, nourish their stomachs and wash their intestines and defecate.
2. Actors, teachers, broadcasters, salesmen and others who need to protect their vocal organs.
3, working overtime late at night, easy to get angry, detoxification ability is reduced.
4, sitting in the office for a long time, can't breathe outdoor fresh air and affect lung function.
5, outdoor activities, large amount of exercise, easy to lose water in the body.
6, on holidays, people who have a headache for buying healthy gifts.
The acute toxicity test of toxic Siraitia grosvenorii health tea showed that it was less toxic.
Cold and sweet in nature. Return to lung and large intestine meridian.
Usage and dosage: 9 ~ 15g.
Store in a dry place to prevent mildew and moths.
Functional indication
Clearing heat and moistening lung, relieving cough, relieving sore throat and relaxing bowels. Used for dry cough due to lung fire, sore throat, aphonia, intestinal dryness and constipation.
Therapeutic value
Fruit of Siraitia grosvenorii, a vine of Cucurbitaceae. Also known as Lahanguo, Prince Luo, Chashanzi and Hongmaoguo. China's Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan Island, Jiangxi and other places are distributed, and Guangxi has a large number of cultivation. Harvest the fruit when it is ripe in autumn, put it on the ground for 8~ 10, and the peel will turn from green to yellow, and brush it off for later use; Or dry it with slow fire.
[Attribute] Sweet in taste and cool in nature. It can clear lung, relieve cough, relieve sore throat and moisten intestines.
[Reference] contains a lot of glucose and a substance (triterpenoid glycosides) which is 300 times sweeter than sugar. The latter is related to the therapeutic effect of this product.
【 Usage 】 Used for cough due to lung heat, whooping cough, sore throat or aphonia; Intestinal heat, constipation.
[Usage] Decoct soup, boil water, etc.
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1, Siraitia grosvenorii broth: Siraitia grosvenorii 30-60g, lean pork 100g. Shredded Siraitia grosvenorii, sliced pork, added with appropriate amount of water, cooked and seasoned with a little salt.
Originated from Lingnan Materia Medica Collection. This prescription uses Siraitia grosvenorii to clear lung, moisten dryness and relieve cough, and lean pork supplements deficiency and nourishes blood. Used for chronic cough due to lung deficiency, fever or tuberculosis.
2. Siraitia grosvenorii persimmon soup: Siraitia grosvenorii 30g, persimmon 15g. Add water to decoct soup and drink.
This recipe has the functions of clearing away heat, moistening lung, relieving cough and relieving sore throat. Used for whooping cough, cough, dry throat and sore throat.
How to choose Siraitia grosvenorii
To buy Siraitia grosvenorii, you should choose a big round one, which is yellow and brown in color, does not shake, and the shell is not broken or burnt. The sweet one is the top grade. After the fruit of Siraitia grosvenorii is ripe, it is harvested in batches and left for five to seven days. After the fruit is saccharified, it is baked with slow fire and the temperature is controlled at 45-65℃. Usually baked for seven or eight days and nights, the skin is yellow-brown, the shell is dry, and it feels light and crisp, but the flesh contains sugar, which is considered as baked.
How to eat Siraitia grosvenorii
[Edit this paragraph] Cultivation and processing technology
Collection and treatment
In autumn, when the fruit changes from light green to dark green, it is picked, aired for a few days and dried at low temperature.
Names and legends
1, according to legend, insects fell from the sky, and Shennong tasted a hundred herbs to find a good prescription. If the Buddha pities the suffering of Shennong, he will send nineteen arhats down to earth to solve Shennong's difficulties; One of them vowed to wipe out the insect plague on the earth before returning to heaven. After the oath, follow the results of the Tao, which means that Lohan cultivates fruits. Later generations called it Lohan. By the way, this is why people usually only know eighteen arhats.
2. It is said that a Yao farmer in Yongfu County, Guangxi, China was accidentally stung by a wild bee when he went up the mountain to collect firewood. He picked a wild fruit from a vine around him and scratched it, which actually stopped the pain. This incident was heard by a village doctor named Lohan. He repeatedly studied this wild fruit and used it to treat cough and other diseases, and the effect was good. In memory of this doctor Yao, people call this wild fruit Siraitia grosvenorii.
It is said that hundreds of years ago, there was a village doctor named Luohan who often collected herbs in the mountains around Longjiang in Yongfu County, Guangxi. After many medical practices, he found that a wild vine fruit has the effect of relieving itching and pain. Ye Can treats stubborn tinea and carbuncle. Roots can apply sores, and fruit hair is a good medicine for knife wounds. So research, cultivation and application. Mountain people have used this fruit to make tea for a long time, and many people live long. People miss Lohan and even name this fruit Lohan.
4. Another way of saying it is because the roots of Siraitia grosvenorii are round and fat, like Luohan drying his belly, so it is named.
Documentary record
Yongfu County, Guangxi is the authentic birthplace and main producing area of Siraitia grosvenorii, with a planting history of more than 200 years and a set of complete and mature planting and processing technologies. At present, the planting area of Siraitia grosvenorii in the county is more than 35,000 mu, with an annual output of nearly 200 million, of which more than 70% are concentrated in Longjiang Township. Yongfu county was named "the hometown of Siraitia grosvenorii in China" by the Ministry of Agriculture on 1995. In 2000, it was recognized as a 1 brand-name agricultural product by Guilin, and Yongfu Siraitia grosvenorii was awarded the title of brand-name product at China International Agricultural Expo 200 1. Yongfu Siraitia grosvenorii and its products have been exported to more than 20 countries and regions such as Japan, the United States and Singapore.
Siraitia grosvenorii is the first batch of precious medicinal and edible Chinese herbal medicines announced by the Ministry of Health. Its mogroside content is 300 times sweeter than sucrose, and it does not produce heat. It is a valuable raw material for beverage and candy industry and the best substitute for sucrose. Drinking arhat fruit tea regularly can prevent many diseases. Modern medicine has proved that Siraitia grosvenorii has obvious curative effect on bronchitis, hypertension and other diseases, and also has preventive and therapeutic effects on coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis and obesity.
Siraitia grosvenorii is a unique economic plant in Guilin, which is one of the traditional Chinese medicinal materials and export commodities. It has high nutritional value, and has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, cooling blood and loosening bones, clearing away lung heat and moistening intestines, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Can be used for treating acute and chronic tracheitis, pharyngolaryngitis, bronchial asthma, whooping cough, stomach fever, constipation, acute tonsillitis, etc. It is also suitable for diabetic patients. Herbal tea brewed with its fruit has a long reputation. It can also be used as a seasoning for stews and clear soup to make cakes, sweets and biscuits. At present, in addition to the export of dried fruits, products also include granules, syrup, fruit essence, cough syrup, concentrated fruit syrup and so on.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Siraitia grosvenorii is sweet, sour and cool, and has the effects of clearing away heat and cooling blood, promoting fluid production and relieving cough, moistening intestines and removing toxic substances, caring skin, moistening lung and resolving phlegm, and can be used for prolonging life, treating phlegm-heat cough, sore throat, constipation and dysphoria. Modern medical research has found that Siraitia grosvenorii is rich in glycoside, which is 300 times sweeter than sucrose. It has the function of lowering blood sugar and can be used as an adjuvant treatment for diabetes. Rich in vitamin C, it has the functions of anti-aging, anti-cancer and skin care; It has the functions of reducing blood fat and losing weight, can help treat hyperlipidemia and improve the image of obese people, and is an essential fruit for women who love beauty.