This kind of "human face" will definitely leave you the deepest impression

During the summer vacation, CCTV Children’s Channel has begun to show the popular drama "Journey to the West" starring Liu Xiao Ling Tong. I believe everyone is familiar with the ginseng fruit in the Wuzhuang Temple on Wanshou Mountain in the play, which "blooms once every three thousand years and bears fruit once every three thousand years." The original book describes it like this: "It is like a baby under three days old, with all four limbs and five senses complete. If a person is lucky enough to get the fruit and smell it, he will live to be 360 ​​years old." Of course, such a magical fruit does not exist in reality, but there is a medicine in Dai medicine that looks like a human face. This is the protagonist I want to introduce to you today - the human face fruit.

The silver fruit on the roadside that looks like a human face is a traditional Chinese medicine that can strengthen the stomach, detoxify and sober up. It is also known as human face and silver fruit. It is the fruit of the human face plant of the Anacardiaceae family. Because there are five germination holes of different sizes on its oblate drupe, which look like the eyes, ears, mouth and nose on a human face, it is called human-faced fruit. It usually takes more than ten years, sometimes even decades, for the human face fruit tree to bear fruit from the time it is planted. The human-faced fruit is very common in Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan. Guangdong people like to boil the flesh of the human-faced fruit with sugar, and then add chili peppers, young ginger and sour plums to make a sauce. Its sweet and sour taste can neutralize greasiness and is very appetizing.

Noodle fruit is also a commonly used medicine in Dai medicine, which calls it "Neima La" and often mixes it with honey to treat jaundice. It is stated in the Records of Medicinal Herbs in Lingnan that “Ren Mian Zi is mild in nature, sweet and sour in taste, can sober people up, detoxify, and treat hemiplegia, pain and itching caused by wind poison, and sore throat”. "Luchuan Materia Medica" says it: "Strengthens the stomach and treats loss of appetite."

In recent years, there are more and more studies on the human face fruit. Studies have found that the fruit of the Chinese wolfberry contains a large amount of xanthones, an active ingredient that has the functions of regulating the body's immune function, anti-inflammation, anti-oxidation, lowering blood pressure, anti-thrombosis, anti-tumor, anti-diabetes and delaying the progression of neurodegenerative diseases.

Pharmacological experiments have found that the fruit of the Chinese wolfberry has outstanding antioxidant and anti-diabetic effects. Its extract can inhibit α-glucosidase, and its effect is slightly weaker than that of the Western medicine acarbose. It has good research and development prospects.

"National Compilation of Chinese Herbal Medicines" records that taking a decoction of 3-5 human face fruits can have a good effect of soothing the stomach and sobering up. This simple and easy method of sobering up may be worth a try for those friends who have a lot of social engagements.