Persimmon fruit is sweet, flat and non-toxic; Persimmon stems are astringent and flat, and enter the lungs, spleen, stomach and large intestine; Has the effects of clearing away heat, moistening lung, promoting salivation, quenching thirst, invigorating spleen and resolving phlegm; Can be used for treating cough due to lung heat, dry mouth and thirst, vomiting and diarrhea.
Persimmons also have the special effect of beauty and weight loss. Eating fresh persimmons regularly can nourish the skin and treat chloasma. Decocting a green persimmon with 30 grams of mulberry branches with water and drinking 1-2 times a day will have the effect of losing weight. After processing fresh persimmons into persimmon cakes, eating 3-5 persimmons every day will have a miraculous effect of beauty and freckle removal.
2. Hawthorn slices
Hawthorn tablets contain many vitamins, tartaric acid, citric acid, maslinic acid, malic acid and so on. The lipolytic enzymes contained in it can promote the digestion of fatty foods, promote the secretion of gastric juice and increase the amount of enzymes in the stomach. Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn has the effects of eliminating food stagnation, astringing and stopping dysentery, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Indications are food stagnation, chest tightness, hernia, blood stasis and amenorrhea. In addition, eating hawthorn tablets can also reduce weight and lipid.
3. Plums
Li Shizhen wrote in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Plum is the fruit of blood separation, which can strengthen the stomach and astringe the lungs, warm the spleen to stop bleeding and expectorate, reduce swelling and detoxify, promote fluid production and quench thirst, and cure chronic cough and diarrhea." Plums can stimulate taste buds, make saliva secrete body fluid and increase appetite.