🌿 Persimmon
[Name] Persimmon
[Taste and Nature] Sweet, cold in nature.
[Meridian Affinity] Enters the lung, spleen, stomach, and large intestine meridians.
[Function] Clears heat, moistens the lungs, generates body fluids, quenches thirst, strengthens the spleen, and resolves phlegm. Used for lung heat cough, dry mouth and thirst, vomiting, and diarrhea. Fresh persimmon has cooling and hemostatic properties; persimmon frost (persimmon powder) moistens the lungs and treats dry mouth and oral ulcers; persimmon calyx has antiemetic and descending action; persimmon cake harmonizes the stomach and stops bleeding; persimmon leaves have hemostatic effects, used for hemoptysis, hematochezia, bleeding, and hematemesis. Recent studies show persimmon and its leaves have antihypertensive, diuretic, anti-inflammatory, and hemostatic actions.
[Composition] Rich in fructose, glucose, sucrose, vitamins A, B, C, and minerals such as phosphorus, iron, calcium, potassium, pectin, trypsin, amylase, and tannic acid.
[Comment] Tannic acid in persimmon has astringent effect, causing stool solidification; proteolytic enzymes also have coagulating effects. Therefore, it should not be consumed simultaneously with high-protein foods like crab. Traditional Chinese medicine considers both persimmon and crab as cold-natured foods, so they should not be eaten together. Additionally, people with weak spleen and stomach (cold deficiency) should avoid eating persimmon.