Peach Season: Fresh Peaches are Delicious, But with Precautions
As peaches gradually come into season, peach lovers can indulge. As a fruit with high nutritional value, peaches are known for their beautiful shape, sweet flesh, juicy texture, and fragrant aroma, earning them the titles "King of All Fruits" and "Beauty Queen."
Peach flesh is sweet and sour in taste, and warm in nature, affecting the stomach and large intestine meridians. It has the effects of nourishing yin, promoting fluid production, moistening dryness, and invigorating blood. It is primarily used to treat summer thirst, constipation, menstrual pain, deficiency-type cough and asthma, and spontaneous sweating. The ancients said: "The peach is the fruit of the lungs." Therefore, it is suitable for patients with lung diseases and can be used as a dietary supplement for those with deficiency-type cough and asthma.
Peaches are high in iron content, ranking among the highest of all fruits. They can help in the treatment of iron-deficiency anemia in children and women. In 100 grams of fresh peaches, there are 202 milligrams of potassium and only 1 milligram of sodium. This is beneficial for patients with edema, as it promotes urination and reduces swelling. Peaches contain more organic acids and dietary fiber, which can stimulate the secretion of digestive juices, increase gastrointestinal motility, and thus increase appetite. Therefore, peaches are suitable for people with anemia, edema, poor appetite, and weak digestion.
Although peaches are delicious, they should not be eaten in excess. Li Shizhen once said: "Eating too many raw peaches can cause bloating and sores, causing harm without benefit." The following four types of people should eat fewer or no peaches:
1. People who are constitutionally prone to internal heat and easily develop sores should not eat too many.
2. It is best not to feed peaches to infants and young children, as they contain large molecules that their immature digestive systems cannot handle, which can easily cause allergic reactions.
3. Patients with a weak constitution and those with very weak gastrointestinal function should not eat them, as it will increase the burden on the digestive system.
4. People who are allergic to peaches should, of course, resist the temptation.