Fiber and kumquat seeds have many medicinal uses such as regulating gas, dissolving phlegm, treating chest tightness or coughing up blood, reducing back pain, treating early stage breast cancer...
During Tet, families often buy meaningful plants to display at home such as apricot, peach, kumquat... Among them, kumquat is a widely chosen plant, has a reasonable price and is easy to care for.
Explaining why kumquats are chosen by many people as a distillation plant for Tet, Dr. Huynh Tan Vu, Head of the Day Treatment Unit, Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital - Facility 2, said that in Chinese sounds, " kumquat" is pronounced similar to the word "sand" in auspicious, meaning good luck and blessings.
When buying kumquats for Tet, buyers often choose trees with good green leaves, even yellow fruits, abundant fruit, showing prosperity, promising a good harvest in the new year, good business, and good health. If you are lucky enough to choose a tree with ripe fruit, green fruit, and young buds, it will be very good, because it represents completeness, success, and luck.
What's special is that kumquats not only decorate the house during Tet but are also very good for eating and making medicine. People can eat kumquat citrus or use kumquat to make jam, syrup, soak in wine... In addition, according to Oriental medicine, kumquat citrus, peel and leaves are used as medicine to treat diseases of the liver, digestion, cough, blood pressure and other diseases. cardiovascular disease…
According to Dr. Vu, there are two parts of the kumquat that can be used as medicine to cure many diseases, but few people know and often throw them away when eating. First, kumquat fiber has a bitter taste, neutral properties, and is high in vitamin P to help prevent and treat high blood pressure, very useful for the elderly. Kumquat fiber also has the effect of regulating gas, dissolving phlegm, clearing communication, opening up menstruation, and is often used to treat meridian stagnation, coughing, chest tightness, coughing up blood...
The second is kumquat seeds, also known as kumquat nuts, with a slightly bitter taste, mild properties, has the effect of regulating gas, relieving pain, dissolving lumps, often used to treat cysts, swollen testicles, back pain, and glandular inflammation. milk, early stage breast cancer... In addition, kumquat seeds combined with lychee seeds and another remedy are very good for treating infertility in men.
Doctor Vu advises that when eating, you should not throw away kumquat fibers and seeds, but know how to take advantage of them, dry them, and preserve them carefully for use when needed.
Some medicinal remedies using kumquat
Cure colds: 30g of fresh kumquat peel, 15g of maple syrup, pour 3 cups of water, boil 2 cups, mix with white sugar and drink one cup while hot, after half an hour of heating, drink the remaining cup.
Cure flu and headaches: Kumquat leaves and other aromatic leaves such as lemongrass, chrysanthemum, great compassion, basil, grapefruit leaves, lemon leaves..., boil water to drink and steam to sweat.
Cure rheumatism, back pain, body pain: 16 g kumquat root, 12 g earthworm, 12 g ox tat, 8 g millennium suet. All chopped finely, boiled with water or soaked in wine to drink. It can also be cooked into a paste and then mixed with wine to serve.
Cure cough due to wind heat: 20 g kumquat root bark, 10 g mulberry root bark, 10 g southern licorice roots or leaves (or 5 g northern licorice). Slice the three things thinly, dry them, boil them with 400 ml of water to 100 ml, add sugar, divide into 2-3 portions and drink during the day.
Cure cough with a lot of phlegm: 8-16 green kumquats, mixed with a small spoonful of sugar or honey, a little salt and 5 g of soot (burned with wood). Steam all the rice for 15-20 minutes, take it out, mash it, mix well, and divide it into 2-3 portions to drink throughout the day.
Cure dysentery: 20 g kumquat stem peel, 20 g pomegranate peel, 20 g banana peel, 2 g rosehip root, 10 g guava buds, chopped, dried, decocted and drunk.
Cure stomach pain, back pain, knee pain: 15-30 g kumquat root, decoct and drink.
Cure tooth decay: Dig kumquat root, wash, add a little salt, chew and suck. After a while, the tooth pain will go away.
Cure swelling and blood stasis: 40 g kumquat leaves, divided into 2 parts, one part is dried, boiled, boiled and drunk, the other part is kept fresh, crushed, and applied to the injured area. Do this continuously for 3-4 days.
Treatment of long-term pus-filled acne: 20 g kumquat leaves, 20 g lemon leaves, 10 g bamboo essence, all dried, powdered, sieved finely, sprinkled on the wound.
Treat beard nails: Use kumquat root and wine residue, two equal parts, pound, heat, apply on the beard nail.
Treating snake bites: Take a handful of kumquat leaves, wash them, pound them, add a little salt and a cup of cooled boiled water, drink the water and use the residue to apply to the wound.
Cure vomiting: 10 g kumquat peel, 15 g pipa leaves, wrap in cloth, decoct and drink.
Cough with a lot of phlegm: 10 g of red sand (a type of kumquat peel), 3 g of Xuyen Bei powder, 15 g of prepared pipa leaves, decoct and drink.
Prolapse of cysts, swollen testicles: Equal amounts of kumquat seeds and star anise, roasted until golden yellow, ground into powder, drink 3-6 g per day with warm wine.
Flank pain: 10 g kumquat fiber, 10 g green tangerine peel, 10 g coriander, decoct and drink.
Dr. Vu noted that the parts of kumquat used for eating and making medicine need to be safe and not soaked in chemicals.
Kumquats used for Tet can be treated with medicine by growers to stimulate even, beautiful, large, and round fruit. Therefore, we should throw away all the fruits when they wilt, fall off, or cut them off at the end of Tet. You should only eat the fruit that comes out afterward to ensure safety and avoid chemical poisoning.
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