In our southwest this area many families are planted figs, because of its high yield, excellent taste and has a high nutritional value and medicinal value and loved by people. Now is the season of maturity of the fig, the tree is full of dense fruit, I believe that many people are eating, to answer this question I hope to let people who like to eat figs to increase some common sense.

Figs are dual-use, sweet and flat, to the spleen, large intestine two meridians, with the spleen to stop diarrhea, qi digestion, cough phlegm, swelling and detoxification, etc., on the spleen deficiency is not transport due to the lack of food, food for bloating and lung yin insufficiency due to a dry cough without phlegm, sore throat has a therapeutic effect, so the days of heat and anorexia and thirst and dry throat of people like to eat figs. Figs are basically non-toxic side effects, but also can help digestion, detoxification, so loss of appetite, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, pediatric diarrhea, usually cough without phlegm, sore throat can eat figs to improve for the relief of constipation as much as possible to eat raw. Figs not only can be eaten directly, you can also add honey soak for tea, also has the role of heat and throat. Processed dried figs produced to maintain the original flavor of fresh fruit and edible efficacy, easy to long-term preservation, dry products have been in the fig industry occupies a large proportion.

Although figs have high medicinal and food value, but there are certain contraindications to consumption, because figs are cold, so the spleen and stomach cold diarrhea people eat will aggravate the symptoms, affecting health. Women eating figs during menstruation may trigger dysmenorrhea or menstrual irregularities.

There is a certain effect of thirst, nothing else is not special, nothing better, as a fruit to eat is not delicious, not delicious as a drug to use no special effect, very common, so a medical application of traditional Chinese medicine is not much, just that there is a certain effect of thirst, generally used to treat the symptoms of bitter mouth and dry throat, dry mouth and thirst can be used these can be to achieve the effect of conditioning.

Usually can be used to soak water to drink, generally favorable effect of the throat, you can add some fat sea these together, and add some pharyngitis drugs together to clear the fire, like honeysuckle, the blue root of these together with the application, you can achieve the effect of clearing the throat, there is a certain effect of nourishing the yin, so in the case of fire and yin deficiency can be used to nourish yin to clear the fire, but the effect is not very obvious, that is, in the treatment of dry mouth and tongue! This dryness has a certain effect of promoting the production of fluids.

That is, you can make more saliva, moist and dry, because generally also do not eat, and the production there is a certain amount of large, so now will be advertised how good, in fact, there is not much efficacy, as a drug basically no application, as food and fruit, but also is not everyone loves to eat the flavor so there is nothing good. There is nothing bad, a mediocre fruit plant.

When I was a child, there was a fig tree under my house, and every year in the middle of summer, the tree was full of small and lovely figs, and the ripe figs were purplish-red in color on top of their heads, and they would fall off if you touched them gently. At that time, I was short and could only pick the low figs, and most of the figs on the top of those high branches ended up being a meal for sparrows and pigeons.

This is how it looks when it's ripe.

I especially like to break the fig to eat, ripe fig skin is very thin, gently pinch it cracked, revealing the dense brown seeds, eat sweet and delicious, carefully chew as if you can hear those tiny seeds in the mouth crack sound.

There's a lot of seeds in there.

After studying medicine, I realized that such a fig, which is not a mainstream fruit, is also a medicinal herb, and not only the fruit can be used as medicine, but also its roots and leaves are also medicinal herbs.

The Fig Family

Fruit: sweet, flat. Roots and leaves: light, astringent, flat.

[Functions and Indications

Fruit: Clearing away heat and promoting generation of body fluid; invigorating the spleen and opening the stomach; detoxifying and subduing swelling. Mainly used in sore throat; dry cough and hoarseness; scanty milk; constipation with intestinal heat; loss of appetite; dyspepsia, diarrhea and dysentery; carbuncle and swelling; ringworm.

Roots and leaves: enteritis, diarrhea; external use for carbuncles.

--Chinese Materia Medica

Figs - good lactation

Mothers who give birth in summer and fall are very happy, because the ripe figs at this time of year have very good lactation and milk. For new moms who are weak after giving birth and have insufficient milk, they can eat figs directly or use figs and pig's trotters together to make soup and drink.

It looks delicious.

Figs - for intestinal dryness and constipation

Figs are full of milk, it has a very good laxative effect, so often constipation, especially sheep's dung egg-like friends, daily you can eat more figs, or with fig herbs boiled water can also relieve.

Figs - good for coughs and pharyngitis

Figs also have the effect of clearing heat and promoting the production of fluids, for sore throat, cough, chronic pharyngitis friends, you can use figs dietary therapy Oh ~ My mother is a teacher, every day to say a lot of words, often hoarse, summer, every day my mother has to eat a handful of figs, she said that after eating the voice is very comfortable.

Figs used externally - detoxify and reduce swelling

Yunnan Materia Medica: Apply to all nameless swellings and poisons, carbuncle, scabies, mange and ringworm sores, yellow water sores, fish mouth poisons, milk knots, and acne sores; mix sesame oil to apply.

The fig itself is very milky, no matter picking branches, leaves, or fruits, you can see the white milky juice coming out of the wound. Then it has a very good detoxification and swelling effect, for all kinds of swelling and poison, figs mashed with sesame oil external compress, the effect is very good.

The above is what I know of the role of figs, welcome to criticize and correct Oh ~ ~

Figs belong to a group of medicinal herbs that have the following main health benefits.

Spleen digestion, laxative: figs contain malic acid, citric acid, lipase, protease, hydrolytic enzymes, etc., can help the human body on the digestion of food, promote appetite, but also because it contains a variety of lipids, so it has a laxative therapeutic effect.

Sugar Lowering:Fig water extract, has the effect of helping to lower blood sugar. Recipe:15 grams of figs, Ningxia wolfberry 10 grams, add water and boil. Drink tea, one dose a day, and finally chew figs and wolfberries. Also available figs 50 grams, 100 grams of bitter melon, are cut into slices, add water to cook soup, flavored to drink, served 7-10 days.

Swelling: Figs contain citric acid, fenugreek acid, succinic acid, malic acid, propylacetic acid, oxalic acid, quinic acid and other substances, with anti-inflammatory and swelling effect, can help the swelling of the pharynx.

Supplemental Nutrition:Figs contain a large number of sugars, lipids, proteins, fiber, vitamins, inorganic salts and essential amino acids, etc., which can effectively replenish the body's nutrients and enhance the body's ability to resist disease.

The lactation: "Compendium of Materia Medica" said "figs for hemorrhoids, throat, swelling and pain, detoxification". Figs in addition to the spleen, diarrhea, intestinal heat, digestion, cough, phlegm, swelling and detoxification of the role, but also through the lactation of the medicine, therefore, menstrual disorders or postpartum lactation patients may wish to try figs medicinal diet.

Fig is the dried receptacle of the fig of the mulberry plant. Greenish-black or dark brown, no mold is preferred. The fruit contains glucose and other sugars and citric acid, malic acid and so on. Pharmacological effects, this product is rich in nutrients can be eaten. It can be used as a food laxative in case of constipation. The milk of the immature fruit can inhibit metastatic sarcoma in rats, spontaneous breast cancer in mice and cause tumor necrosis; it can also delay the development of transplanted adenocarcinoma, myelogenous leukemia, lymphosarcoma and make it degenerate. Its latex injection has destructive effect on blood vessels and subcutaneous tissues, and it is non-toxic when taken orally. This product into the lungs, large intestine meridian, has the spleen and intestines, swelling and detoxification of the function, the treatment of enteritis, dysentery, constipation, hemorrhoids, sore throat, carbuncle scabies. Although figs can be eaten, but should not be eaten especially unripe fruit. Clinical symptoms such as the above must be used under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner.

That's a good question to ask. We've grown figs in almost every house here. We eat dozens of kilograms every year. During the ripening season, we eat more than ten kilograms every week. It's too sweet. Specific efficacy. Not really sure, but it's quite tasty anyway.