Apricot harvesting, processing and efficacy

Do you know some common sense about apricots? Let me introduce it to you in detail.

Information about Apricot

It is also called sweet plum. It has red flowers in February and round and pointed leaves. There are many varieties: the yellow ones are called golden apricot, plum apricot, etc. Now they are everywhere.

Apricot harvesting and processing

As long as the apricots are ripe, you can squeeze out the thick juice, spread it on a plate to dry, then scrape it off and mix it with water and wheat flour to eat. It is the most commonly used seasoning ingredient for the five fruits.

Flavor

It tastes sour, is hot in nature and is slightly toxic.

Apricot's efficacy and indications

It is the fruit of an apricot, suitable for people with heart disease. However, eating too much raw will damage the bones and muscles. It is sour like plums and sweet like peaches among apricots. All apricots are hot in nature. Eating too much apricots can cause sores, boils, diaphragmatic heat, and reawaken old diseases, causing blindness and beard loss. It can also cause phlegm heat and mental fatigue. Postpartum women should avoid eating it. Dried and eaten as preserved fruit can remove cold and heat toxins.

Nucleolus

[Nature and flavor] Sweet and bitter, warm and cold, slightly toxic.

[Effects and indications] It is mainly used to treat cough, reverse breathing, sore throat, gas, lactation, cold heart like a running pig. It can treat carbuncle, heart heat, wind and qi, seasonal headache, relieve muscle, relieve heart pain, kill dog poison, and relieve tin poison. It can treat upper abdominal distension and blockage, sweating, warm disease beriberi, cough and shortness of breath. Add asparagus to decoct, moisturize the heart and lungs. It can be made into soup with cheese, moisturize the voice, remove lung heat, treat wind and qi in the upper part of the body, benefit the chest and diaphragm, moisten the large intestine and treat constipation. It can kill insects, treat various sores and scabies, reduce swelling, and remove blister-like small bumps on the head and face caused by various wind and qi. Commercial flour and bean flour will rot when they come into contact with almonds.

[Invention and Legend] There was once a soldier who had indigestion due to eating flour. The doctor ground equal parts of Jiqi Pills and almonds into pills, and took them with boiled water. The soldier recovered after taking them several times.

flower

[Properties and flavors] Sweet, warm, non-toxic. [Effects and indications] The flowers are mainly used to replenish deficiency, treat injuries in women, red, swollen, hot and painful joints, and sore limbs.

leaf

[Effects and indications] It is mainly used to treat acute swelling and edema of the whole body. It can be boiled into a thick soup and soaked in hot water. A small amount can also be taken orally.

branch

[Effects and indications] Mainly used to treat falls. Take a handful and add one liter of water, boil until the water is reduced by half, add three bowls of wine and mix well, take orally in divided doses for great effect.

root

[Effects and indications] It can cure the condition caused by eating too many almonds, which leads to confusion and near death. Cut the roots into pieces and boil them into a decoction to drink, and the condition will be cured.

【Additional prescription】

For sore throat and sudden hoarseness: peel almonds and boil until they turn yellow, add one part of cinnamon powder, grind into a paste, hold in mouth, and swallow the juice. For paralysis, hemiplegia, and aphonia: swallow seven almonds raw, without peeling the tip, and increase to 49 per day, repeating over and over again. After each meal, drink the dew on the bamboo leaves. Until the disease is cured. For head and face wind, eyelid twitching and crooked mouth: grind almonds, add water and boil, then wash the head, the effect is good. For tetanus, body convulsions: pound almonds, steam until the gas flows, squeeze into juice and drink a large cup, and rub some on the sores at the same time, the effect is good.

Treat urinary obstruction: 14 almonds, peel and tip, fry until yellow, grind into powder, eat with rice. Treat hemorrhage when other medicines are ineffective: Use the yellow skin of almonds, burn to preserve its essence, grind into powder. Take 3 grams each time, on an empty stomach with wine. Intestinal worms cause sores. Pain and itching: Grind the almonds into a paste and apply it frequently.

To treat vulvar sores in women: use half a liter of almonds, simmer with bread, remove the flour and grind it into a paste, remove the oil. Take a small amount each time, add a little copper green, grind it evenly and apply it on the affected area. To treat umbilical sores in children: peel the almonds, grind them and apply them on the affected area.

To treat vitiligo: chew 14 almonds every morning and rub them on the affected area to make it red. Rub it again at night before going to bed. To treat arrows shot into the flesh, or in hidden places such as the pharynx and diaphragm: pound the almonds and apply them, and the wound will come out.

For the treatment of the five kinds of fatigue and seven kinds of injuries, all kinds of weakness, cough, shortness of breath and other symptoms: take half and two liters of almonds, boil them with boy's urine seven times, add four ounces of honey and mix well, then add five liters of boy's urine, put it in a bowl and steam it again. After taking out the almonds, expose them to the sun and dew for several days, and chew them at any time to heal.

To treat a black mole on the face: burn almonds and grind them into a paste, then scrape the mole and apply the paste every day. To treat a dog bite that does not heal: crush the almonds and apply them on the wound.

To treat eating too much meat, tachycardia, dry mouth, fever and incoherent speech, remove the skin and tip of one liter of almonds, boil with two liters of water, remove the residue and take the juice in two doses until the meat is discharged. To treat female infertility: on the Dinghai day of February, take apricot flowers and peach flowers, dry them in the shade and pound them into powder, then on the Wuzi day, mix them with well water and take a square inch of powder three times a day. To treat black spots: soak one liter of apricot flowers and peach flowers in river water for seven days, and then use them to wash your face twenty-one times. It is very clever.