Early summer is a good time to eat lychee, lychee taste sweet, sour, warm, into the heart, spleen, liver meridian, can replenish brain fitness, appetizing and spleen, has the effect of promoting appetite.
However, it is easy to catch fire if you eat too much lychee, is there any good way to solve it?
Soaking in salt water can remove fire and reduce dryness
Salt has the effect of clearing fire and cooling blood, you can drink some light salt water before and after eating lychee, you can also put lychee meat in light salt water, soak for a short time before eating, you can go to the fire to reduce dryness.
In addition, lychee shell bitter cold, can relieve the heat of lychee, after eating the pulp, you can also use lychee shell fried water to drink.
The "Compendium of Materia Medica" recorded: "Acne sores are not cheerful, frying soup and drinking; Relieve the lychee fever and soak in water. ”
Avoid eating large amounts continuously
Do not eat more than 10 lychees at a time, eating more will make the liver fire rise, resulting in dry throat, and even cause nausea, limb weakness, dizziness and other discomfort. Especially for children, eat 3~4 capsules, eat more is easy to cause fever.
In addition, lychee has a high sugar content and should be avoided by diabetics.
It should not be consumed on an empty stomach
Fresh lychees have a high sugar content, and eating lychees on an empty stomach will irritate the gastric mucosa, and stomach discomfort symptoms such as stomach pain and bloating will occur.
It is recommended to eat half an hour after meals, and the amount of food should not be too much at one time.
Tips
Eating lychees before driving may be detected as drunk driving. Because lychee sugar content is very high, it is sealed during transportation and storage, resulting in lychee prone to anaerobic respiration, that is, fermentation, to produce alcohol.
After ingestion, the alcohol content in the mouth will rise instantly, causing the illusion of an increase in the detection value.
When we encounter a situation where we are found to be drunk driving after eating lychee, we can wait 3~5 minutes for testing, or drink a lot of water and use mouthwash to rinse our mouths.
(Wellness China)