Passion Fruit, also known as "Xintongzi", "Rudilong", "Suantengzi", and "Tiansuan Ye", belongs to the Passifloraceae family. It is distributed in southern regions of China, such as Yunnan, Guangxi, and Hainan. The fruit is mainly harvested in summer and has a sweet and sour taste, making it edible!
Passion fruit is spherical or elliptical, with a diameter of 3-8mm. The surface is green-brown or gray-purple and often wrinkled. The top has a remnant of the stigma, and the bottom is often attached to a 2-5mm long pedicel and small sepals.
The fruit peel is crispy and easy to peel off. The seed is often covered with a brown seed coat, and the kernel is hard with a yellow-white horny appearance. On the outer side, there are patterns of seed coat embedded in the endosperm. It has a mild aroma, a mild taste, and a spicy and numbing sensation when chewed for a long time.
The berry is round and becomes red or purple-black when ripe. When dried, it turns dark brown and has a diameter of 5-6mm. It is smooth, with longitudinal wrinkled stripes and a few glandular spots. It has a mild aroma and a sour and sweet taste.
The fruit of the passion fruit is spherical and about 5mm in diameter. When it is green, it is not edible due to its sour taste. When it is ripe, it turns dark red and can be eaten. The fruit has a sour, sweet, and mild nature, and is used to treat gastric acid deficiency and loss of appetite.
Passion fruit mainly grows in shrubs or beside mountain trenches. It matures in April every year, which is a similar season to cherries.
In the southern regions, many rural children think that passion fruit is even more delicious than cherries. It has a sour and sweet taste, making it more enjoyable to eat.
Immature passion fruit is green and very sour, and generally cannot be eaten. When it is ripe, it turns blood red and has a sour-sweet taste, which is very delicious.
Passion fruit is blood-nourishing, but it should not be consumed by people with thick sticky blood, as it may cause blood clots.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, passion fruit is believed to have the effects of nourishing blood, astringing and stopping bleeding, and is commonly used for blood deficiency and gum bleeding.
Fruit: The taste of the fruit is sour and sweet. It is rich in vitamin C and can be eaten fresh or brewed alone. It can strengthen the body and nourish the blood, and is used to treat gastric acid deficiency, gum bleeding, and loss of appetite.
Branches and leaves: The taste is sour and can be eaten to relieve thirst. The roots are used as medicine and have anti-inflammatory, bactericidal, blood-activating, pain-relieving, heat-clearing, detoxifying, and astringent properties. They are used to treat sore throat, gum bleeding, spleen deficiency with diarrhea, bruises, and hemorrhoids. 9-15 grams can be decocted and consumed.
1. Passion fruit, pomegranate, pepper, dried ginger, short-tailed iron lotus, small chili, nutmeg, cardamom, Amomum villosum, passion fruit, grass jade plum, large leafed Yunshi, Guangming salt, purple sand, red rock sugar, grind together and take with boiling water. It can increase stomach fire and treat bacon disease.
2. Cinnamon, dried ginger, pomegranate, pepper, short-tailed iron lotus, small chili, passion fruit, asafoetida, purple sand, red sugar. Grind together into powder and take internally. It is used to treat bacon descending into the small and large intestines.
3. White sand, purple sand, passion fruit, Artemisia argyi charcoal, etc. Grind together into fine powder, mix with red sugar, and take internally as pills. It is used for intestinal obstruction caused by worms.
