Medicinal value of apricot blossom

We may often eat almonds, but we don’t know much about apricot blossoms. Eating more apricot blossoms can not only help us appreciate the delicious taste, but also effectively help us improve our intestinal digestion ability. Apricot blossoms can also help our female friends achieve the effect of beautifying the skin, which can save a lot of cosmetics expenses. Let’s get familiar with the medicinal value and effects of apricot blossoms.

Apricot is the first fresh fruit to be available on the market after summer. The fruit has high nutritional value. What is particularly outstanding is that it contains more substances with anti-cancer effects: 1.79 mg of carotene per 100 grams, as well as catechols, flavonoids and amygdalin, all of which have anti-cancer and cancer-treating effects. Fiji, an island country in the South Pacific, is the only country in the world that has no cancer. Everyone in this country has a special eating habit of eating apricots. They eat dried apricots just like we eat staple foods such as rice and noodles, and they eat them every day. Therefore, eating apricots, dried apricots or almonds regularly is very beneficial for cancer prevention and health care. Apricots taste sour and sweet, and are warm in nature. They can moisten the lungs and relieve asthma, promote salivation and quench thirst. Eating them fresh can treat insufficient stomach yin, thirst and dry throat, dryness and heat in the lung meridian, and cough and shortness of breath. According to research, apricots are the fruit richest in vitamin B1, and vitamin B17 is an extremely effective anti-cancer substance that has a killing effect on cancer cells. It was reported that a local hospital in the United States used vitamin B1 to treat cancer. Among 250 patients treated, 248 were cured. So far, vitamin B17 has saved 4,000 advanced cancer patients. Therefore, apricots are suitable for patients with various cancers. Since apricots are warm in nature, do not eat too much at one time, otherwise you will get a sore throat. It is also important to note that bitter almonds contain amygdalin, which can decompose into highly toxic hydrocyanic acid. Therefore, if you want to eat almonds, you must first soak them in water and heat them to boil so that the hydrocyanic acid dissolves in the water or evaporates before eating them.

Apricot flowers are also rich in many vitamins. Applying apricot flowers on the skin can effectively replenish the lack of moisture in the skin. The effect is very good. It can soften the skin's stratum corneum and moisturize the skin. It can effectively prevent our own skin from becoming dry and cracked due to lack of water.