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The Spring Festival is coming, and the "NianXiao Fruit" kumquat, which is loved by Yangzhou people, has golden fruits, turquoise leaves, and a seemingly fruity aroma.
"Kumquat is good, not only is it a fruit plant, some varieties are edible, but also a commonly used Traditional Chinese medicine." Today, Zhang Lei, chief physician of the Department of Pulmonary Diseases of Yangzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that kumquat is warm, sweet, into the lungs, bile meridians, rational qi to relieve depression and cough and phlegm and other effects.
Yangzhou people love the auspicious "New Year's Fruit"
In the Huaduhui Flower and Bird Market, in front of every shop selling flowers, there is a slip of kumquat pots, each pot is growing happily, and the yellow and brilliant kumquat fruits are hung on the branches, like a cute little lantern.
Zhang Wenxing, a 70-year-old Yangzhou man who lives in the old city, said with a smile: "Yangzhou people are very exquisite in the New Year, and they are everywhere auspicious. Kumquat looks festive, the sound is the same as the 'bureau', and it has the meaning of taking the overall situation. "Zhang Wenxing loves flowers and can also plant flowers, and several pots of kumquats that have been bought for more than ten years at home have been made alive by his attendants."
He Changxing, 52, is the owner of a restaurant. On the bar counter in his shop hall, two pots of kumquat potted plants were placed early. Listening to the praise of others, he said proudly: "The kumquat tree planted in my hometown yard is good!" The tree is more than 20 years old, and it was planted in the courtyard by the old mother. "He Changxing said that when he returned to his hometown, every time he saw the kumquat fruits full of trees, there was always a kind of contented happiness." Eat a few more kumquats, the fruity aroma, the taste is sweet, so beautiful! ”
Yangzhou people love to eat fruits that they eat
How to grow up, Yangzhou people love kumquats, and they love to eat kumquats even more. With a history of more than 200 years, the first thing that comes out of it is the aroma of kumquat cake.
Zhao Xingsheng, a 69-year-old yangzhou man, always remembers going to a relative's house to play in his childhood, and his relative brought him a plate of kumquats, and he did not eat it at first, breaking off the skin and eating the meat inside. Later, relatives told him to eat kumquat peel. "It was so sweet that I fell in love with kumquats after that!"
Chen Jinlong, a grassroots cultural celebrity in his 80s, recalled to reporters the shortbread he ate when he was a child. The shortbread is good in crisp and fragrant in the filling. "There are more than 10 kinds of fillings such as pretzel bean paste, lard and green onion, diced chicken, chrysanthemum osmanthus flower, medicinal celery peas, and leek yellow, and most of the elderly love to eat kumquat cakes." Now that I think about it, it may be able to maintain health care! ”
Medicine and food are homologous and rich in nutrition
Dr. Zhang Lei's statement also confirms that the elderly Yangzhou people's preference for kumquats is correct. Kumquat, she said, also known as kumquat, golden orange. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that kumquat is warm and sweet, enters the lungs and bile meridians, and has the effect of relieving depression and suppressing cough and phlegm. Suitable for fever disease dry mouth, cough and phlegm and other symptoms. It can be consumed by the general population.
She introduced that kumquat raw food has the effects of rational qi, tonic, depressive, digestion, cold dissipation, phlegm, sobering and so on, and can be used to treat chest tightness, drunkenness and thirst, indigestion, loss of appetite, cough and asthma and other symptoms. Modern medical research has found that kumquat is rich in sugar and vitamin C, and also contains volatile oils, kumquat glycosides and other active substances. The skin of the kumquat is thin, and it can be eaten raw with the skin, and it can also be soaked in wine and made into preserves. Eating kumquat in winter can strengthen the nasopharyngeal mucosa and prevent colds, and kumquat soaking wine can prevent bronchitis. The elderly eat kumquat can also treat chest tightness and phlegm accumulation, food stagnation and stomach sluggishness, and can enhance capillary elasticity and prevent cerebrovascular diseases. Patients with cholecystitis, hepatitis, stomach disease, tracheitis, hypertension, hardening of the arteries, often eat kumquat or kumquat cake, which has the effect of adjuvant therapy...
Kumquats do a lot. However, Zhang Lei also especially reminded that those with weak spleen and weak qi should not eat more, and diabetics, people with broken mouth and tongue, and swollen gums should not eat.
Tips
Zhang Lei said that kumquat is a medicinal and food homologous fruit, which has extremely rich nutrients, but it should be eaten properly. The following aspects need to be noted:
First, control the amount of consumption. According to studies, eating 3 kumquats a day can meet a person's daily vitamin C needs. If you eat too much, when you take too much vitamin C, the oxalic acid metabolized in the body will increase, which will easily cause urinary stones and kidney stones. In addition, eating more is harmful to the mouth and teeth.
Second, it is not advisable to eat with turnips. After the radish enters the human body, it will quickly produce a substance called sulfate, and quickly metabolize to produce an anti-thyroid substance - thiocyanate. If kumquat is eaten at this time, the flavonoids in kumquat will be broken down in the intestine and converted into hydroxybenzoic acid and ferulic acid, which can strengthen the inhibitory effect of thiocyanate on the thyroid gland, thereby inducing or causing goiter.
Third, it should not be eaten with milk. The protein in milk easily reacts with the fruit acid and vitamin C in kumquat, coagulating into lumps, which not only affects digestion and absorption, but also causes bloating, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms. Therefore, it is not advisable to drink milk within 1 hour before and after eating kumquats.
Fourth, it is not advisable to eat kumquat before meals or on an empty stomach. The organic acids in kumquats irritate the mucous membranes of the stomach wall, which is not good for the stomach.
Fifth, the elderly should eat less. The elderly with weak gastrointestinal, kidney and lung function should not eat more, so as not to induce abdominal pain, waist and knee soreness and other pathologies.
Sixth, children eat more on fire. Some children who eat too much kumquat will also have what Chinese medicine calls "fire", such as glossitis, periodontitis, laryngitis and so on. Children should not eat more kumquats. If you eat too much, you should stop eating for 1-2 weeks before eating.
Editor: Yu Binbin
【Source: Yangzhou Release】
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