Both are papaya, but fruit papaya is very different from traditional Chinese medicine papaya, you know?

Speaking of fruit papaya, you must be familiar with it. Its sweet but not greasy taste makes people like it. Even if many people don't eat fruit papaya, papaya milk, papaya borneol, papaya fungus syrup and the like, they will always eat it. This is especially true for girls who love beauty. There has been a saying among the people that "eat papaya for beauty and breast enhancement". According to related research reports, "Fruit papaya is rich in vitamin C and carotene, which can help people to delay aging, detoxify and beautify, and also enhance people's immunity." And papaya also has whitening effect. So fruit papaya has always been very popular with people. In Southeast Asia, papaya can even be eaten as a vegetable.

Speaking of medicinal papaya, perhaps many people don't know. Many people will think that fruit papaya is medicinal papaya. In fact, this view is wrong Let's take a look at how China Pharmacopoeia records that "Medicinal papaya needs to be processed, washed, moistened or steamed, sliced and dried. Warm in nature and sour in taste. Meridian tropism belongs to liver meridian and spleen meridian. Its main functions are calming the liver, relaxing muscles and regulating the stomach. It is used for dampness, waist and knee pain, vomiting and diarrhea, and beriberi edema. " "On Lei Gong Baking" records: "Papaya is fragrant, sweet and sour, and can be adjusted to help the grain." "Medical Records" contains: "Papaya tastes sour, warm in nature and non-toxic, and cures dampness and evil spirits. Cholera vomits and muscles turn. " "Qianjin Shi Zhi" records: "Papaya tastes sour and salty, warm, astringent and non-toxic." "Herbal Collection" records: "Cool air, strengthen bones and muscles, promote digestion, stop water dysentery and thirst, and make it drink. Athlete's foot rushed to the heart again. Take one, seed it, and fry it. Tenderness is better. " Also stop vomiting, vomiting in the heart diaphragm. "Let's look at Chinese medicine and record that papaya tastes sour and warm. Entering the liver and spleen meridians. Its effects are eliminating dampness, relieving arthralgia, relaxing muscles and tendons, promoting digestion and treating beriberi.

Therefore, from the ancient books of Chinese medicine, papaya is sour and warm, which is very different from the sweet and delicious fruit papaya we usually eat. Therefore, fruit papaya and Chinese medicinal papaya are different varieties of papaya. It turns out that fruit papaya, also known as papaya, is an exotic papaya variety, which belongs to tropical fruit, tastes sweet and can be eaten directly. Papaya used in traditional Chinese medicine is generally larger than fruit papaya and tastes sour. Generally, it is not taken directly and processed into medicine. It is an important drug for relaxing tendons and activating collaterals and is suitable for wind-cold-dampness arthralgia.

Fruit papaya and traditional Chinese medicine papaya are both papaya, but their functions are completely different, you know.