Summer is rich in fruits, which makes people eat with relish. In the northern region, peaches, apricots and plums are the most common at this time. People often say that peaches nourish people, apricots hurt people, and plums kill people. Is that so?

From the perspective of Chinese medicine, the above sentence has some truth, but it is somewhat exaggerated and incomplete. Peach, apricot and plum all have dietotherapy effects, but also have taboos. Eating right is good for your health. Eating too much or eating wrong is harmful to health.

Part 1

peach

Can make up, can pass, can moisten.

The most famous fruit in ancient fairy tales is peach, which symbolizes auspiciousness and means immortality and longevity. Everyone is most familiar with the Queen Mother Flat Peach Garden in The Journey to the West. Nowadays, Shoutao has become an indispensable cultural symbol for the elderly. If peaches are "educating people", they have three health-preserving functions that are worth using.

(peach) strengthening the heart, promoting blood circulation, promoting fluid production and clearing away heat.

-Wang Qing Meng Ying's "Fun Diet Spectrum"

Yes, peaches are warm, sweet and refreshing, and have the function of invigorating qi and blood. People who are pale, tired and flustered can eat some peaches properly.

Nengtong, peach has the function of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Female dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, less menstrual flow or abdominal mass can be eaten.

Can moisten, peaches can moisten the intestines and relax the bowels. In fruits, this function seems ordinary. However, peaches still have advantages, because they are warm, so they will basically not hurt the spleen and stomach when relaxing. Banana, pitaya and other fruits also have a laxative effect, but they are cool and easy to damage the yang of the spleen and stomach. Therefore, in this season, if you eat fruits that moisten the intestines and relax the bowels, peaches are the first choice.

Generally speaking, the above three functions of peaches are relatively peaceful and will not hurt people because of excessive force, which is also the embodiment of peaches' "nurturing people". However, eating peaches is definitely not much. Because of warm sex, eating too much will accumulate excessive internal heat, causing skin sores, or all kinds of redness, swelling, heat and pain.

Although peaches are warm, they are cold fruits after all. For people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, it is best to eat warm. Here is a soup of peach, wolfberry and tremella, which not only has the function of peach, but also enhances the function of nourishing yin, nourishing blood and moistening dryness.

Taozi wolfberry tremella decoction

Raw materials: peach 13, wolfberry 3 10g, tremella fuciformis about 10g, one liter of clear water.

Exercise:

1 peach is pitted and cut into pieces, and tremella is soaked;

2. Boil the peach blocks, tremella fuciformis and Lycium barbarum with water, and simmer for 20-30 minutes;

3. Add seasonings such as honey appropriately.

the second part

Apricot not only "hurts people"

As a common fruit, apricot is not toxic. It is definitely not comprehensive to say that it hurts people. Let's take a look at its advantages first. Sour food, especially fruit, has a particularly prominent function of promoting fluid production. We know the allusion of the idiom "looking at plum to quench thirst", which says that although it is dark plum, apricot and dark plum are still very similar, and their function of promoting fluid production is outstanding, and sour Chinese medicines such as Schisandra chinensis and Cornus officinalis have similar functions. People with insufficient body fluid and dry mouth are suitable for eating these sour fruits.

Apricot can produce fluid and enter the lungs, so it has the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough. Suitable for people with lung dryness and cough, that is, those who cough without phlegm or less phlegm, dry throat and hoarse cough, may wish to eat a few apricots.

Don't eat too much, you will get carbuncle and hurt your bones and muscles.

-Tang Cuiyuxi's "Gourmet Classics"

Saying "apricots hurt people" still seems to have obvious shortcomings. Apricots have two disadvantages. One is that they are hot, that is, they are more likely to get angry than peaches, a warm food. Eating too much can cause ulcers and nosebleeds. The second disadvantage, some sour food, eating too much is easy to make people lose their teeth, and their teeth feel soft and dare not bite hard. Apricot is this kind of food. Chinese medicine believes that teeth are not only bones, but also things that pour teeth, which can also hurt bones and muscles. We know that drinking carbonated drinks often can make people lack calcium, which is similar to eating apricots.

the third part

Plum, it's not that terrible.

Plums are also nontoxic. Although it is not very "nurturing", it is serious to say that "the dead are carried under the plum tree". Plum is flat, some people say it is slightly cold, which can clear away heat and promote diuresis and pass urine. Compared with peaches and apricots, its "purging" function is more prominent. Eating too much will damage the spleen and stomach and healthy qi, which may be the reason why the saying reminds people not to eat too much. There is also a saying that immature plums are bitter, poisonous and inedible.

The effect of clearing heat and promoting diuresis of plum is more suitable for patients with liver disease. Liver disease often manifests as damp-heat syndrome, yellow greasy tongue coating, bitter taste, loss of appetite, fatigue and yellow skin. The principle of conditioning is to clear away heat and promote diuresis. If ascites occurs, it is necessary to drain the water to drink, which is exactly where plums play their role. There is a lot of literature about this, which should have some effect. Qian Jin Fang, written by Sun Simiao in the Tang Dynasty, called it "suitable for liver diseases". In the Qing Dynasty, Wang Mengying's "Resting Diet Spectrum" said that "clearing liver and removing heat, promoting blood circulation and promoting fluid production." Quanzhou materia medica says "treating ascites due to liver disease". Damp-heat syndrome is also a common constitution, not just liver disease. If it meets the above characteristics of damp-heat syndrome, it is also suitable for eating plums.