Phoenix Eye Fruit, also known as Semen Euryale, has the function of promoting digestion, dispelling toxins, and killing insects. Can pregnant women, as a special group, eat it? Are there any requirements?
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Phoenix Eye Fruit's Original Form
It is a tall tree, reaching up to 10 meters. The bark is brown. The leaves are paper-like, broadly rounded or elliptical, measuring 8-25 centimeters long and 5-15 centimeters wide. The apex is gradually pointed or blunt, the base is blunt, and the leaves are smooth and clean. The petiole is 2.5-5 centimeters long.
The pendulous cone-shaped inflorescence is 8-28 centimeters long. The flowers are unisexual and lack petals. The calyx is pink, 5-lobed, with lobes triangular and bar-shaped, covered with short, soft hairs. The stamens are weak and curved, and there are a few pistillate flowers with hairy ovaries, stalked, 5-lobed, and curved pistils.
The fruit is leathery, ovoid, 4-8 centimeters long and 2.5-3.5 centimeters wide, with beak and dark red when ripe, covered with short, velvety hairs. There are 1-5 elliptical spherical seeds, dark chestnut in color. It flowers in May and fruits in June to July (in Guizhou Province).
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Function and Indications of Phoenix Eye Fruit
It warms the stomach and kills insects. It is used to treat abdominal pain due to worm accumulation, vomiting of food, and hernia pain.
① Yao Kecheng's "Food Materia Medica": It treats worms in the organs and children eating mud, abdominal pain, and hard lumps. It nourishes the liver and gallbladder, improves eyesight, eliminates opacity, stops cough, reduces fever, dispels wind and cold, relieves irritability, and reduces heat.
② "Essential Characteristics of Medicinal Plants": It is used to treat children's scalp sores (eczema in children's heads). It is calcined and applied topically with oil; it eliminates heat and is cooked with meat.
Can Pregnant Women Eat Phoenix Eye Fruit?
Pregnant women can eat Phoenix Eye Fruit, but it should be consumed in moderation.
Taboos for Eating Phoenix Eye Fruit
It is forbidden for those with spleen deficiency and diarrhea.
