🌿 Chew Dates Slowly and Spit Out the Pit
Dates contain abundant nutrients and various trace elements, offering unique nutritional and medicinal value. Even the pits have uses—holding a pit in the mouth to generate saliva for relieving dry mouth. After eating the flesh of a date, keep the pit in your mouth for several hours; saliva accumulates, and when sufficient, swallow it. This does not interfere with speaking or drinking.
Li Shizhen pointed out that dry mouth results from "illness disrupting the balance between heart and kidney, preventing kidney water from ascending, thus drying up bodily fluids and exhausting true qi." How to make saliva flow abundantly? Li Shizhen highly recommended holding a date pit in the mouth: "Constantly holding a date pit to stimulate salivation is excellent." "This uses the date to generate saliva and qi, and swallowing it helps reach the Huang Gong (the lower abdomen)." Using the date pit to "manufacture" saliva.