In early summer, around the Dragon Boat Festival, the sweet and sour and delicious bayberry of the season is the most loved by everyone. The ancient method has clouds: bayberry core can "clean the gastrointestinal tract, detoxify and remove fire", therefore, some people eat bayberry deliberately do not spit out the core. Is this scientific? Sun Xun, deputy chief physician of the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery of Longhua Hospital affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, clarified his understanding of this: deliberately swallowing bayberry core is harmful and unprofitable, but if a small amount of bayberry core is taken by mistake, the public does not have to be nervous, and no special circumstances will be excreted.
Bayberry is regarded as a treasure in the fruit, a natural solid drink. It turns out that bayberry is rich in a variety of vitamins, organic acids, trace elements, has excellent lipid-lowering, antioxidant effects. When eating baybutus with good taste and rich nutrition, can the core be eaten?
Dr. Sun Xun said that the bayberry core consists of two parts, the bayberry kernel and the bayberry core shell. Although bayberry nucleus is a chinese herbal medicine, it can treat athlete's foot and gum ulcers. But the core shell is very hard in a fresh, moist state and is difficult to digest. Therefore, the drug effect of the nucleolar part cannot be effective, and the shell itself has no nutritional value.
Where did the ancient law say that "bayberry nuclei clean the stomach and intestines" come from? Experts tell you: if the bayberry nucleus has the effect of cleaning the gastrointestinal tract, it is completely a physical effect.
The bayberry kernel is of moderate size, the two heads are not sharp, the surface is uneven, and the pulp fiber remains on the surface of the bayberry kernel, adhering to some undigested food or feces in the intestine and taking it out of the body. In ancient times, there was a lack of medicine and medicine, and the ancients had to do it.
In fact, the premise of this role is that bayberry nuclear energy is smoothly excreted from the body. If it cannot be discharged, many unexpected hazards will occur.
The nucleus of bayberry is oval in shape, with a longitudinal diameter of about 1.5-2 cm and a transverse diameter of about 1-1.5 cm. By swallowing a single or small amount of bayberry core, adults without digestive tract disease can be successfully excreted. Therefore, under normal circumstances, the public does not have to be nervous when eating bayberry core by mistake, and it is enough to take more foods that lubricate the digestive tract.
If normal people swallow a large number of bayberry nuclei, it will cause abnormal gastrointestinal peristalsis, and it is not easy to pass through the pylorus (where the stomach and duodenum join), the ileoca blind valve (the junction of the small intestine and the large intestine), and the entrance. A large number of bayberry nuclei accumulate in these places, which will cause gastrointestinal obstruction, abdominal pain, bloating, and even gastrointestinal bleeding, which has to go to the hospital for treatment.
Dr. Sun Xun especially reminds that patients with gastrointestinal diseases (such as gastric ulcers, gastrointestinal tumors, pyloric stenosis, ileocular valve stenosis, colonic lengthening, intestinal adhesions, intestinal obstruction, intestinal inflammation, etc.), or digestive tract dysfunction, long-term constipation, gastrointestinal surgery history, etc., can easily cause gastrointestinal obstruction, bleeding, and even perforation after swallowing bayberry nucleus. Children or extremely thin adults have a smaller inner diameter of the digestive tract, and the elderly have weak gastrointestinal motility and cannot swallow bayberry nuclei.
Although the bayberry is delicious, it must also be exquisite. Cai Jun, chief physician of the Clinical Nutrition Department of Longhua Hospital, also "draws the key points" for the public, and eats bayberry to remember three points. First of all, bayberry tastes sour, and eating too much will damage the teeth and gastric mucosa, so patients with oral dental diseases and gastric ulcers should not eat more. Secondly, bayberry is warm, yin and fire, and diabetics should not eat more. Finally, bayberry and cucumber should not be eaten together, the vitamins in bayberry are easily destroyed by the vitamin C decomposition enzyme in cucumbers, losing the original nutritional value.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Gu Yong Text Editor: Gu Yong Title Image Source: Figureworm Creative Image Editor: Shao Jing
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