Sweet and juicy lychee is a popular fruit in hot summer days. However, the "identity" of lychee is not as simple as you think. It is not only delicious, but also full of treasures, with unique traditional Chinese medicine value. Today, doctors will unveil the health secrets of lychee as a traditional Chinese medicine. Litchi has great medicinal properties. Litchi is known as the "beautiful jade among fruits" in traditional Chinese medicine classics. It has a sweet and slightly sour taste, a warm nature, and is suitable for the spleen and liver meridians. The Compendium of Materia Medica records that lychee has a pure yang aroma and a slightly hot nature. The warm nature of lychee gives it various unique health benefits. Litchi fruit pulp - the nourishing power of warming and nourishing the middle burner. Litchi fruit pulp can nourish the spleen, improve diarrhea and loss of appetite caused by spleen and stomach deficiency and cold (such as lychee jujube soup). When children do not like to eat due to spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, consuming a small amount of lychee can increase appetite; In addition, lychee fruit pulp has the effect of nourishing the liver and blood, which can alleviate blood deficiency, palpitations, dizziness and vertigo (lychee wine can treat women's blood deficiency and collapse). In daily life, if women experience qi and blood deficiency due to blood loss after menstruation, they can eat some lychee to supplement qi and blood and improve their physical condition; Soothing and puzzle solving, lychee meat contains natural polysaccharides, which have a nourishing effect on brain tissue and improve insomnia and forgetfulness. Litchi shell - a natural "fire extinguisher" that is opposite in temperature to the flesh. Litchi shell is cool in nature, bitter in taste, and contains anti-inflammatory substances such as flavonoids (quercetin, rutin) and saponins. The traditional method is to boil water and heat it up. You can take 5 to 6 shells and add 500ml of water to boil for ten minutes. After meals, drink warm water to relieve dry mouth and sore throat caused by fruit pulp. At the same time, washing lychee shells outside can also treat sores, and soaking them in water can relieve eczema and acne. This is the embodiment of the theory of "transforming the original soup into the original food" - lychee shells neutralize the warmth of the fruit flesh through "using cold to heat". Litchi Seed - A Good Medicine for Promoting Qi and dispersing Qi. Litchi Seed is a commonly used Chinese medicinal herb, with a sweet and slightly bitter taste, a warm nature, and is beneficial for the liver and kidney meridians. It has the effects of dispersing qi, dispelling cold and relieving pain, and is commonly used to treat conditions such as cold hernia, abdominal pain, testicular swelling and pain, and dysmenorrhea of qi stagnation and blood stasis type. In clinical practice, it is often used in combination with other medicinal herbs based on the specific symptoms of the patient. For example, when treating cold hernia and abdominal pain, lychee seeds are often used together with medicinal herbs such as fennel and orange seeds. Eating lychee to avoid the "three fires" is not suitable for everyone, although lychee is good. Come and see if you are a "destined person" for lychee: suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency cold like eating cold diarrhea, weak qi and blood like pale complexion, cold hands and feet, and postpartum deficiency. Be cautious of those who suffer from Yin deficiency and excessive fire, such as red tongue with little coating, those who are troubled by heat in the five hearts, those who have damp heat and bitter mouth with yellow and greasy coating, and those who have not yet recovered from skin diseases. In addition, there is a saying in folk culture that "one lychee has three fires", which is caused by physical deviation or excessive consumption. The warmth of lychee can help internal heat and cause mouth and tongue sores. Here are three ways to extinguish the fire: soak in salt water to remove the shell and flesh, soak in light salt water for 30 minutes, or drink light salt water after eating; Match cold and cool with mung bean soup and Winter melon soup to balance cold and heat; Boiling lychee shells in water is the most suitable antipyretic method for traditional Chinese medicine theory. The ancestral secret formula cannot be taken away without thanking the thousand year old wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine in Lingnan. It emphasizes the way of eating lychee, which is valuable in understanding physical constitution, compatibility, and moderation. As long as it is properly matched and consumed in moderation, one can enjoy the deliciousness of lychee while avoiding the discomfort caused by its warmth. The health code of lychee has long been cracked by our ancestors. Below are a few classic dietary remedies for lychee. Stew chicken with lychee, 20 pieces of lychee meat, and half a chicken together. This formula can warm and replenish spleen yang. Litchi Ophiopogon Snow fungus soup 8 pieces of litchi meat, 10g Ophiopogon japonicus, 10g lily, some tremella, boil the soup together. This formula can nourish yin and moisten dryness. 500g of fresh lychee meat with lychee wine and 1000ml of rice wine, soaked for seven days. This formula can protect the heart and reduce uric acid. (New Society)