Fangcao Baiwei | The heat waves are long in summer, coconut ice is many useful

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Moderator: The heat waves are long in summer, from south to north, and the whole country is hot. At this time, it is the most comfortable in the shade of the seaside of Hainan Island. The sea breeze blows, and another ice coconut is really refreshing. Coconut is a specialty of our south. Does it have any medicinal value? In this issue of "Fang Cao Baiwei", we invited Gong Youming Chinese Medicine of the Ministry of Pharmacy of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine to explain to everyone.

Pharmacist: Speaking of the summer artifacts, if the northern representative is watermelon, the south must be coconut. How could such a good thing, how could the ancient predecessors let it go, so a long time ago, the ancients studied coconut.

As early as in the Song Dynasty, the "Materia Medica Sutra" edited by Su Song and others recorded coconut, saying that it was "out of Annan, today Lingnanzhou county is available. Beneper; it is as big as ù [hù], hanging in the branches, like hanging objects, there are coarse skin such as brown bags, such as shells, round and firm, skin, white like pigs, half inches thick, Xu Xu Xu Xu Xu, which is half -inch. The taste is also like walnut. There are four or five -in -in -law in the skin, such as milk, cold drinking and atmosphere ... ... The southern people take their meat, sugar stains, and send them to the north to make fruit. "

This Su Song is a native of Fujian in the late Tang Dynasty. He should have seen coconuts. Later, he became a prime minister in the Song Dynasty and edited the "Materia Medica Sutra". This paragraph can be regarded as a brief introduction to coconut. There are no branches of coconut trees, and coconuts are hung on it. There are thick skin outside, under the crude skin, there are white meat like lard, and milk -like juice. It feels cool after drinking. The southerners are marinated with sugar to the north, and it tastes good. In just a few words, the entire coconut plant is depicted.

In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen brought together the "Compendium of Materia Medica", which was more intensive. It wrote "coconut, sweet, flat, non -toxic. Coconut milk, sweet, warm, non -toxic." Coconut can nourish qi and treat wind. Coconut milk can stop thirst, cure vomiting hem swelling, and remove wind and heat. "Compendium of Materia Medica" also refers to the role of coconut shells. "Baymeter sore bone pain, coconut shell burning, temporarily stir -fry the heat, soak two or three dollars with wine, warm and sweat."

In modern times, the research on coconuts has been deepened, and a series of industries have been formed. Various studies have shown that virgin coconut oil has antioxidant activity and protects the body from oxygen free radicals; the appropriate amount of virgin coconut oil can also reduce total cholesterol and triglycerides, prevent blood pressure from rising, and antibacterial, anti -antibacterial, anti -antibacter The role of inflammation, antiviral.

Researchers' research on coconut water found that coconut water can correct diarrhea, dehydration and electrolyte disorders caused by exercise; coconut water also has a good protective effect on cardiovascular systems and liver and kidneys. You may not know that during the previous war, coconut water was also used as a treatment patient.

In addition to the role of medicine, coconuts are used as agricultural products, oil crops, and in environmental protection.

Gong Youming

Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Executive editor: Wu Yuan Tuan

Audit school pair: Zhuang Yingge

Editor in charge: Song Liping

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