Medicinal value Harvesting summer and fall to pick immature green polyanthus fruit, put in boiling water, immediately fished up, sun-dried or dried. Characteristics The fruit is conical or globose, about 2cm long, 1.5-2.5cm in diameter, with a yellowish brown or brownish black surface, with undulating curved longitudinal ribs, slightly truncated at the upper end, with a rounded protrusion in the center, narrower at the base, and connected with the infructescence stipe and the remnants of the infructescence bracts. It is hard and sweet in flavor. Flavors: flat, sweet. Functions: Strengthening the spleen, stopping diarrhea. Used for loss of appetite, diarrhea, insufficient milk. Source: The fruit of Ficus carica L., the root and leaves of Ficus carica L., family Moraceae, are also used in medicine. Roots can be harvested throughout the year; fruit and leaves are harvested in summer and fall, dried or fresh. Fruit: sweet, flat. Roots and leaves: light, astringent, flat. Functions and Indications] Fruit: moistening the lungs and relieving cough, clearing heat and moistening the intestines. Used for coughing, sore throat, constipation, hemorrhoids. Roots and leaves: enteritis, diarrhea; external treatment of carbuncles. [Usage and dosage] Fruit, leaves: 0.5 ~ 1 tael; root and leaves for external use in appropriate quantities, decoction and fumigation of the affected area. Figs in the Bible and the Koran is known as the fruit of life, fruit of the sun, today is known as the twenty-first century, the protector of human health. China’s ancient canonical records: “Compendium of Materia Medica” contains: fig taste sweet and flat, non-toxic, the main stomach, stop diarrhea and dysentery, treatment of hemorrhoids, sore throat. Uyghur medicine book has 72 kinds of diseases with figs into medicine. Modern medical research institutions have found that figs have the following health care value: 1, fig fruit and leaves contain a variety of cancer inhibiting active ingredients, such as benzaldehyde, furacoumarin, psoralen and a large number of minerals selenium, with cancer prevention and anti-cancer effects. 2, figs contain a large number of fig protease, lipase, amylase, yeast and a large amount of food fiber, hemorrhoids, constipation treatment effect is excellent, but also to help digestion and treatment of diarrhea, gastroenteritis and other diseases. 3, figs contain 18 kinds of amino acids, a variety of vitamins, 19 kinds of trace elements, rich enzymes, a large number of beneficial polysaccharides, dietary fiber, pectin, etc., after eating can make the intestinal tract of various harmful substances are adsorbed and discharged from the body, purify the intestinal tract, promote the proliferation of beneficial bacteria, inhibit the rise of blood glucose, to maintain the normal cholesterol content, improve the body’s immune system, enhance the resistance to disease, anti-aging. 4, fig leaves and fruits contain flavonoid glycosides (the same composition as ginkgo biloba), can prevent and control cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, lower blood pressure. 5, figs contain SOD enzyme and other enzymes, with weight loss and beauty effects. Nutritional value of figs: 1, figs edible rate is high, the edible part of the fresh fruit up to 97%, dried fruit and candied fruit up to 100%, and low acid content, no hard seeds, so especially suitable for the elderly and children to eat. 2, figs are rich in amino acids, fresh fruit 1.0%, 5.3% of the dried fruit; 18 kinds have been found. Not only because the human body must have 8 kinds of amino acids and show high utilization value, and especially aspartic acid (1.9% dry weight) content is the highest, anti-leukemia and restore physical strength, eliminate fatigue has a very good effect. Therefore, foreign countries will be a fig drink as a “carb morphine substitute”. 3, fig dry material content is very high, fresh fruit for 14-20%, dry fruit up to 70% or more. Among them, the glucose content can be directly absorbed and utilized by the body accounted for 34.3% (dry weight), fructose accounted for 31.2% (dry weight) and sucrose accounted for only 7.82% (dry weight). Therefore, it has a low calorie content and is known as a low-calorie food in Japan. Domestic medical research has proved that it is a kind of weight loss health food. 4, figs contain polysaccharide, accounting for 6.49% (dry weight), mainly arabinose and galactose, anti-aging has a certain effect. 5, figs contain a variety of vitamins, especially contains more carotene, fresh fruit for 30mg/100g, dry fruit for 70mg/100g, in peaches, grapes, plums, pears, oranges, sweet persimmons above. 6, figs contain a large number of beneficial to the human body has inorganic elements, and does not contain easy to carcinogenic Co, Cd, Pb, and other inorganic elements. It has a good effect on enhancing the health of the body and anti-cancer ability. 7, fig fruit, branches, leaves are rich in enzymes to proteolytic enzymes, followed by lipase, amylase, superoxide dismutase (SOD), etc., with its fruits for the after-dinner fruit, helps digestion of good results. In recent years, the use of figs to extract SOD enzyme, the development of high-quality cosmetics has also made a major breakthrough, so that the value of figs doubled. 8, figs are rich in food fiber, which pectin and hemicellulose can adsorb a variety of chemical substances after water absorption and expansion, so that a variety of harmful substances in the intestinal tract is adsorbed and discharged, purify the intestinal tract, and promote the propagation of beneficial bacteria in the intestinal tract, can play a role in inhibiting the rise of blood glucose to maintain normal cholesterol levels, and to exclude the role of carcinogenic substances. 9, figs and malic acid, oxalic acid, juju acid, succinic acid, malonic acid, pyrrolidine carboxylic acid, mangiferic acid, quinic acid, glyceric acid and other acids. Flavonoids, rutinoside ketone sugar, aldose, trehalose, etc.. As well as benzaldehyde, furanocoumarin lactone, tonic esterin, bergamot lactone and other ingredients for cancer inhibition has a role. 10, Ingredients: fig, also known as the natural child, Wenxian fruit, dense fruit, milk berries, etc., for the mulberry plant. Figs are both fresh fruit and a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. The compendium of materia medica “: ” fig taste sweet and flat, non-toxic, the main appetizer, stop dysentery, treatment of hemorrhoids, sore throat “. Fig taste sweet as persimmon and no kernel, nutrient-rich and comprehensive. Each 100 grams of figs containing 81.3 grams of water, protein 1.5 grams, 0.1 grams of fat, 3 grams of crude fiber, 13 grams of carbohydrates, 1.1 grams of ash, 30 micrograms of carotene, thiamin 0.03 milligrams, 0.02 milligrams of riboflavin, 0.1 milligrams of nicotinic acid, ascorbic acid 2 milligrams of vitamin E 1.82 milligrams of potassium 212 milligrams of sodium 5.5 milligrams of calcium 67 milligrams, magnesium 17 milligrams. mg, magnesium 17 mg, iron 0.1 mg, manganese 0.17 mg, zinc 1.42 mg, copper 0.01 mg, phosphorus 18 mg, and selenium 0.67 mcg. In addition, it also contains citric acid, fenugreek acid, succinic acid, malic acid, propionic acid, oxalic acid, quinic acid, lipase, protease and a variety of essential amino acids. 1, spleen and food, laxative. Figs contain malic acid, citric acid, lipase, protease, hydrolase, etc., can help the human body on the digestion of food, promote appetite, but also because it contains a variety of lipids, it has the effect of laxative. 2, lowering blood fat, lowering blood pressure. Figs contain lipase, hydrolase and other lipids and decomposition of blood lipids, so can lower blood lipids, reduce fat deposition in blood vessels, and then play a role in lowering blood pressure, prevention of coronary heart disease. 3, the pharyngeal swelling. Figs contain citric acid, jujunsolic acid, succinic acid, malic acid, propylacetic acid, oxalic acid, quinic acid and other substances, with anti-inflammatory and decongestive effect, can be beneficial to the pharynx and swelling. 4, supplemental nutrition. Figs contain a large number of sugars, lipids, proteins, cellulose, vitamins, inorganic salts and essential amino acids, etc., which can effectively replenish the body’s nutrients and enhance the body’s ability to fight diseases. 5, cancer prevention and anti-cancer. The milky pulp of immature fruits contains active ingredients such as psoralen and fructus lactone, and an aromatic substance “benzaldehyde” can be extracted from the juice of mature fruits, both of which have anti-cancer and anti-cancer effects, and can prevent the occurrence of liver cancer, lung cancer, gastric cancer, and slow down the development of transplanted adenocarcinoma and lymphosarcoma, and promote their degeneration. Suitable for people: 1, indigestion, loss of appetite, high blood fat, hypertension, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, cancer, constipation. 2, fatty liver patients, patients with cerebrovascular accident, diarrhea, normokalemic periodic paralysis and other patients are not suitable for consumption; loose stools should not be eaten raw.