What is it like to eat green olives, when you bite the first bite, you feel very astringent, chew two more bites, there will be a sweet fragrance to fill the mouth, first astringent and then sweet, and the more chewy the more fragrant, the more chewy the sweeter, let people have endless aftertaste!
Olive is also called green fruit, but did you know that it is actually a traditional Chinese medicine?
【Green olive】: The flesh is astringent and slightly sweet after chewing for a long time
【Sexual taste】: sweet, sour, astringent, flat sex
【Returning to the scriptures】: into the spleen, stomach, lung meridians
【Effect】: Clear lungs and throat, appetize and detoxify
【Indications】: cough, sputum with blood, sore throat, loss of appetite, irritability caused by summer fever, thirst, drunkenness, fish turtle poisoning, eczema, genital infection and long sores
【Contraindications】: People with spleen and stomach deficiency and constipation should not use it, olive medicinal sandalwood is the best variety of olives
Anti-alcohol function: can make the alcohol in the body more smoothly discharged, but also calm the mind, drunk people eat a few olives will feel obviously sober. In addition to eating raw, olive soup can also relieve the wine and refresh the mind, which is the secret of many ancient people not getting drunk in a thousand cups!
Olive relief of throat inflammation function: hoarseness, tonsillitis, sore throat, dry throat, swelling and itching with foreign body sensation, cough throat phlegm, can be used to soak olive water or boil water to drink.
Olive diet therapy: olive radish tea - cold: olive 250 grams, radish 500 grams, water decoction tea, can clear the lungs and throat, suitable for upper respiratory tract infections, influenza, acute laryngitis, acute tonsillitis, bronchitis and so on.
Olive pig lung soup - moisturizing lungs and cough: 10 fresh olives, 250 grams of pig lungs, salt to taste. Wash the pig lungs, pass the water, beat the olives, put the pig lung olives into the saucepan, add the appropriate amount of water, simmer for 1.5 hours and then add salt to taste.
In addition to its high medicinal value, olives are also very high in nutrition. The pulp of green olives contains protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamin C and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc., of which its vitamin C content is 10 times that of apples, and the calcium content is also very high, and it is easy to be absorbed by the human body. Children often eat some olives for bone development, so people call olives "the fruit of heaven".