Apricot's health benefits and storage methods

Many people do not treat apricots as fruits, but rather as a kind of medicinal stem, or process them into dried goods. Let us learn more about this.

Health Benefits

1. When apricots are immature, they contain more flavonoids, which can prevent heart disease and reduce myocardial infarction.

2. Apricot is the fruit richest in vitamin B17, which is an extremely effective anti-cancer substance. It only has a killing effect on cancer cells and has no toxicity to normal and healthy cells.

3. Bitter almonds can relieve cough and asthma, moisten the intestines and promote bowel movements, and can treat lung diseases, coughs and other diseases. In addition, almonds are rich in vitamin C and polyphenols, which can not only reduce the cholesterol content in the human body, but also significantly reduce the risk of heart disease and many chronic diseases.

Storage method

You can put the apricots in a plastic bag and freeze them in the refrigerator and eat them within 3 to 7 days. Or you can put the half-ripe apricots in a paper bag and store them at room temperature. Avoid direct sunlight. Keep them until they are ripe. This usually takes 1 to 2 days, then transfer them to the refrigerator to refrigerate.

Food precautions

1. It is especially suitable for people with acute and chronic bronchitis cough, lung cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer patients, cancer patients and postoperative radiotherapy and chemotherapy patients, and people with thinning hair.

2. Pregnant women, young children, patients, especially diabetics, should not eat apricots or apricot products.

Food

Stewed turtle with apricot balls

Material:

750 grams of soft-shelled turtle, 150 grams of lean meat, 20 grams of southern apricots, 25 grams of northern apricots, 10 grams of longan, 25 grams of yam, 4 cups of soup, 8 cups of cold boiling water, 1 tablespoon of white wine, appropriate amounts of ginger slices, scallion strips, and raw chicken oil.

practice:

1. Slaughter the turtle, scrape off the outer skin, remove the fat, wash, cut into pieces (remove the spine), blanch in boiling water for 30 minutes, remove and wash. Cut the pork into pieces, blanch in boiling water and remove.

2. Heat the oil in a pan, stir-fry the ginger slices, scallion strips and turtle, add 1/2 tablespoon of white wine, add 2 cups of boiling water, boil it slightly, pour it into a colander to filter out the water and remove the scallion and ginger.

3. Soak the almonds in boiling water and remove the red skin. Wash the longan meat and yam corners and set aside.

4. Take a covered stewing pot, put pork, soft-shelled turtle, almonds, longan, yam, and raw chicken fat into the pot, add 6 cups of boiling water, salt, and wine, cover and stew for 1 hour and 30 minutes, remove the chicken fat residue, add broth and MSG and stew for 30 minutes.

Apricot kiwi juice

Ingredients: 4 apricots, 1 kiwi.

practice:

1. Wash all ingredients and remove the apricot kernels.

2. If you don't like the taste of kiwi skin, you can peel it, squeeze the juice, mix it evenly, and drink it immediately.

Tip: Since apricots contain very little juice, it is best to juice them with other fruits. Adding kiwi fruit is a great way to dilute and enrich apricot juice while giving it a powerful energizing and detoxifying effect. If possible, keep the kiwi fruit skin when juicing, as it contains many valuable nutrients. The skin also adds a spicy and bitter flavor to the mixture. If you find the taste unbearable, remove the skin.

Bodybuilding Tips

Northern Apricot Bird's Nest Beauty and Slimming Soup

Ingredients: northern apricot, bird’s nest, rock sugar.

practice:

1. Put the dried bird's nest in a large bowl, add boiling water and soak for 4 hours, remove, pick out impurities, put into boiling water and cook for 10 minutes, then soak in clean water for a while, remove and drain for later use.

2. Put the northern apricot slices into boiling water and cook for 5 minutes. Remove from the water, let it cool and remove the outer membrane.

3. Put rock sugar and 3 cups of water into the pot and boil until it melts into syrup. Add all the ingredients, transfer to the stewing pot, and simmer over low heat for 3 to 4 hours until it is soft and tasty. It can be served.

Remedies for curing diseases

1. Treat cough, cold and fever: Use half a liang of almonds, peel and tip, soak in children's urine for seven days, take out, wash with warm water, grind into mud, add three liters of children's urine and boil into paste. Take one qian each time, with boiled water.

2. To treat hemoptysis due to lung disease: use 40 almonds, fry them with yellow wax until they turn yellow, grind one qian of indigo, add them, mash them, wrap them in a cut persimmon, wrap them with wet paper, simmer and eat.

3. To treat hemorrhoids and bleeding: add three liters of water to almonds (peeled or double-kernel ones), grind them, filter the juice, boil until 50% cooked, and cook them into porridge with rice.

4. Treatment of vitiligo: Use almonds with the skin and tip, chew a few almonds every morning and rub them on the affected area until it turns red, and rub it again before going to bed.

Knowledge Links

Xinglin

"Xinglin" is a nickname in the field of traditional Chinese medicine. It originally came from Dong Feng, a famous doctor from Fujian during the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period. Dong Feng, whose courtesy name was Junyi, was from Houguan, Fujian (now Fuzhou). He was as famous as Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo at the time and was known as the "Three Divine Doctors of Jian'an". Among the many legendary deeds of Dong Feng, the most influential one is the story of his medical practice in Mount Lushan. According to Volume 10 of "The Biography of Immortals", "Junyi lived in the mountains and treated people for no money. He asked people who were seriously ill to plant five apricot trees and those who were not seriously ill to plant one tree. In ten years, he had planted more than 100,000 apricot trees, which became a lush forest..." Dong Feng lived in seclusion for a long time at the southern foot of Mount Lushan in Jiangxi, and enthusiastically diagnosed and treated diseases for the mountain people. He never asked for remuneration when practicing medicine. Whenever he cured a seriously ill patient, he asked the patient's family to plant five apricot trees on the hillside; when he cured a minor illness, he only had to plant one apricot tree. Therefore, patients from all over the country came to seek treatment after hearing the news, and Dong Feng always used planting apricots as medical payment. A few years later, there were as many as 100,000 apricot trees in the Lushan area. Dong Feng's noble character of practicing medicine to save the world won the general admiration of the people. As a result, the word "Xinglin" gradually became a special term for doctors.