Pears

The pear is the fruit of Rosaceae plants including Pyrus bretschneideri, Pyrus pyrifolia and Pyrus ussuriensis. It is sweet, slightly sour and cold in nature. It contains glucose, sucrose, vitamin B and C, citric acid, malic acid and other ingredients. It clears heart fire and moistens the lung, resolves phlegm and relieves cough. It is suitable for lung-heat cough, red and painful eyes, difficult defecation and urination, alcohol toxicity and other conditions.

Tangerines

The tangerine is the ripe fruit of multiple Citrus species in Rutaceae such as Fuju and Zhuju. It is sweet, sour, mild-warm in nature and rich in vitamin C. It quenches thirst and promotes fluid production, facilitates urination. It applies to dry mouth and fever, stomach heat-toxin, watery diarrhea, cough and other ailments.

Tangerine Peel

Tangerine peel is the pericarp of citrus fruits. It is pungent, bitter and warm, containing flavonoid glycosides, volatile oil, vitamin B & C and pectin. It regulates qi, harmonizes the middle jiao, dries dampness and resolves phlegm. It treats distending fullness in chest and abdomen, poor appetite, vomiting and hiccup, cough with profuse phlegm, and also counteracts toxicity from fish and crabs.

Tangerine Seed

Tangerine seed is bitter, mild and non-toxic. It contains fatty oil and protein, with bitter components limonin and obacunone. It effectively regulates qi and relieves pain. It is indicated for hernia, testicular swelling and pain, breast abscess, lumbago, bladder qi pain and similar disorders.

Litchi

The litchi is the fruit of Sapindaceae plants. It is sweet, sour, astringent and warm in nature, containing sucrose, protein, glucose, fat, vitamins and citric acid. It tonifies the spleen and liver, improves intelligence and nourishes the spirit. It works for childhood enuresis, anemia and physical deficiency in women, hiccup and related symptoms.

Litchi Seed

Litchi seed is sweet, warm, astringent and non-toxic, containing tannins and α-glycine. It warms the middle jiao, regulates qi and alleviates pain, applicable to hernia pain, stomachache, blood stasis stabbing pain in females.

Peach

The peach is the ripe fruit of Rosaceae Prunus persica. Sweet, sour, slightly warm and non-toxic, it contains glucose. It activates blood circulation to dissipate stasis, lubricates intestines and suppresses cough, suitable for coronary heart disease, disseminated intravascular coagulation and related illnesses.

Peach Kernel

Peach kernel is bitter, sweet and mild, containing amygdalin, fatty oil, volatile oil, emulsin and vitamin B1. It breaks blood and eliminates stagnation, moistens dryness and lubricates intestines. It treats amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea due to blood stagnation, abdominal pain after childbirth caused by blood stasis, abdominal masses, pain from traumatic injuries, hypochondriac pain, pulmonary abscess, intestinal abscess, dry intestinal constipation and more.

Grape

The grape is the fruit of Vitaceae plants. Sweet, sour, astringent and mild, it consists of saccharides, protein, vitamin B & C, nicotinic acid and various mineral salts. It invigorates the stomach, generates fluid and promotes urination. It relieves hepatitis, jaundice, rheumatic pain, morning sickness, chest distension in pregnant women, dysentery and other complaints.

Pomegranate

The pomegranate is the fruit of Punicaceae plants, sour and warm in nature. It contains punicic acid, estrone, estradiol, β-sitosterol and mannitol. It astringes intestines and stops bleeding, indicated for persistent diarrhea, chronic dysentery, uterine bleeding and leukorrhea.

Pomegranate Peel

Pomegranate peel is sour, astringent and warm, containing tannins, pelletierine, mannitol, gum, mucilage, gallic acid, malic acid, pectin and calcium oxalate. It astringes intestines to stop diarrhea and kills parasites, used for chronic diarrhea, prolonged dysentery, rectal prolapse, uterine prolapse, abdominal pain caused by intestinal parasites and other conditions.

Chestnut

Chestnut kernel is the seed of Fagaceae Castanea mollissima. Sweet and warm, it contains saccharides, starch, protein, fat and vitamin B. It replenishes qi, nourishes intestines and tonifies kidney qi. It relieves kidney deficiency in the elderly with weak waist and legs, childhood diarrhea and similar disorders.

Kumquat

Kumquat is the ripe fruit of Rutaceae shrubs or small trees including Fortunella margarita and Fortunella crassifolia. Pungent, sweet, sour and slightly warm, it resolves phlegm and relieves cough, regulates qi and relieves stagnation. It treats cough with sputum, pertussis, food stagnation and qi stagnation with stuffy stomach and poor appetite, as well as liver qi stagnation with distending pain in chest and hypochondria.

Jujube / Chinese Date

Chinese jujube is the ripe fruit of Rhamnaceae Ziziphus jujuba. Sweet and warm, it contains protein, saccharides, organic acids, mucilage, vitamin A/B/C and trace elements calcium, phosphorus, iron. It tonifies the spleen and harmonizes the stomach, replenishes qi to generate fluid, regulates nutrient and defense qi, and neutralizes medicinal toxicity. It applies to insufficient middle jiao qi, spleen-stomach weakness, lassitude, poor appetite and loose stool, sallow complexion and hysteria in women due to blood deficiency. It also aids patients with hypercholesterolemia and elevated serum transaminase from acute and chronic hepatitis.

Hawthorn Fruit

Hawthorn fruit comes from Rosaceae Crataegus pinnatifida, sour-sweet and slightly warm. It contains tartaric acid, citric acid, crataegic acid, flavonoids, lactones, saccharides, glycosides and abundant vitamin C. It digests food stagnation, dissipates blood stasis, expels tapeworms and stops dysentery. It treats red-white dysentery, postpartum pain from blood stasis, hypertension, insufficient coronary blood supply in coronary heart disease, infantile milk-food stagnation, infantile malnutrition and chronic diarrhea due to spleen deficiency.

Mume Fruit / Dark Plum

Mume fruit is the dried unripe fruit of Rosaceae Prunus mume, sour and warm. It astringes the lung, binds intestines, generates fluid and calms roundworms. It relieves persistent cough from lung deficiency, chronic diarrhea and dysentery, consumptive thirst, abdominal colic and vomiting caused by roundworm syncope.

Plum Blossom (Green Calyx Plum Blossom)

Also known as red plum blossom or green calyx plum blossom; single-petaled green calyx blossoms are preferred medicinally. Slightly sour and astringent, it stimulates appetite and relieves stagnation, generates fluid to quench thirst. It treats plum qi syndrome (globus hystericus) and prevents smallpox in children. Congee boiled with plum blossoms lifts spirits.

Mulberry Fruit

Mulberry fruit is the fruit ear of Moraceae Morus alba, sweet and cold. It contains sugars, tannic acid, malic acid, vitamin B/C and carotene. It nourishes blood and yin, tonifies liver and kidney. It treats wind syndrome due to blood deficiency, bi syndrome, liver-kidney deficiency with soreness and weakness of waist and knees, dry intestines and constipation in the elderly, insomnia from heart-kidney weakness, edema and scrofula.

Walnut

Also called Persian walnut; the edible walnut kernel is the seed of Juglandaceae Juglans regia. Sweet and warm, it contains fatty oil, protein, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene and riboflavin. It strengthens waist and tonifies kidney, constrains lung to relieve asthma, lubricates intestines for defecation. It relieves lumbago and leg pain from kidney deficiency, impotence, spermatorrhea, frequent urination, cold dysmenorrhea and persistent uterine bleeding in women, insomnia, forgetfulness, cough, pertussis, constipation, stranguria and scrofula, hysteria.

Diaphragma Juglandis (Walnut Septum)

Also named walnut partition, thin woody flakes, light, crisp and easy to break. Faint odor, slightly bitter taste. It astringes essence and relieves stranguria, indicated for spermatorrhea, enuresis, lumbago and dysphagia.

Green Walnut Husk (Qinglongyi)

Dried fleshy peel of unripe walnut, grayish-green to gray-black on surface, astringent and bitter. Mostly for external use to treat stubborn tinea.

Longan Aril / Dried Longan Pulp

Longan aril is the aril of Sapindaceae Dimocarpus longan, sweet, astringent and non-toxic. It contains glucose, sucrose, tartaric acid, adenine, choline, protein, fat, vitamin A & B. It tonifies heart and spleen, replenishes qi and blood, nourishes blood to calm spirit. It treats palpitations, severe anxiety, insomnia and forgetfulness from heart-spleen dual deficiency, insufficient qi and blood, spleen-deficiency diarrhea, postpartum edema in women.

Lotus Seed

Lotus seed is the fruit or seed of Nymphaeaceae Nelumbo nucifera, sweet, astringent and mild. It contains plenty of starch, raffinose, protein, fat, calcium, iron, phosphorus and liensinine, carbohydrates. It nourishes the heart to calm spirit, tonifies kidney to consolidate essence, invigorates spleen to stop diarrhea and leukorrhea. It relieves dawn diarrhea, chronic diarrhea, dysentery with inability to eat, spermatorrhea, uterine bleeding, leukorrhea, menorrhagia, habitual abortion, hematuria.

Stamen Nelumbinis (Lotus Stamen)

Dried stamens of lotus, sweet, astringent and mild. Containing quercetin, luteolin, isoquercitrin, luteolin glucoside and alkaloids. It clears heart fire, consolidates kidney, astringes essence and stops bleeding, used for nocturnal emission, hematemesis, nosebleed, uterine bleeding, leukorrhea, diarrhea and dysentery.

Plumula Nelumbinis (Lotus Plumule)

Green germ of ripe lotus seed, bitter, cold and non-toxic. It clears heart heat, suitable for febrile disease with high fever and delirium, hyperactive heart fire with restlessness and hypertension. Its alkaloids have cardiotonic, hypotensive and libido-suppressing effects.

Water Chestnut

Water chestnut is the corm of Cyperaceae Eleocharis dulcis, sweet, slightly cold and slippery. It contains starch, protein, calcium, iron, phosphorus, vitamin A/B/C, nicotinic acid and puchiin. It clears heat and generates fluid, resolves phlegm, cools blood, eliminates stagnation and improves eyesight. It relieves sore throat, hematochezia, hypertension, general edema, dysuria, red-white dysentery.

Water Caltrop

Water caltrop pulp comes from Trapaceae Trapa plants, sweet and cool. It contains starch, glucose, protein and anti-cancer substances. It clears heat and detoxifies, replenishes qi and invigorates spleen, used for diarrhea, uterine cancer, gastric cancer, esophageal cancer and other malignancies.

Sugarcane

Sugarcane stalk belongs to Poaceae Saccharum officinarum, sweet, mild and astringent. It contains saccharides, calcium, phosphorus, iron. It quenches thirst and generates fluid, relaxes chest and harmonizes the middle jiao. It treats chest distress and fever, regurgitation, morning sickness and alcohol toxicity.

Sunflower

Seed of Asteraceae Helianthus annuus, bland and mild, rich in fatty oil. It nourishes yin, stops dysentery and promotes rash eruption, indicated for bloody dysentery and abscess swelling.

Sunflower Stem Pith

Also named sunflower stalk, containing polysaccharides, chlorogenic acid, 4-O-caffeoylquinic acid and scopolamine. Clinically applied for hematuria, urethral calculi and chyluria; recently used for gastric cancer, pertussis and leukorrhea.

Peanut

Peanut seed is from Fabaceae Arachis hypogaea, sweet and mild. It contains fatty oil, nitrogenous compounds, starch, cellulose, minerals, vitamin B, α- and γ-tocopherol. It moistens lung, harmonizes stomach, dispels phlegm and stops bleeding, suitable for chronic cough, chronic nephritis and immune thrombocytopenic purpura.