What are the effects and functions of litchi? Can pregnant women also eat it?

Litchi is one of the preferred fruits for many friends in summer. Although litchi is delicious, it will get angry if you eat too much. As for whether pregnant women eating lychees will cause miscarriage, there have been different opinions. Do you know the efficacy and effect of litchi? What are the taboos?

First, the efficacy of litchi

1. Litchi pulp is sweet and juicy, which has the effect of invigorating body and relieving thirst, tonifying liver and tonifying spleen, summer is hot, people's appetite is slightly bad, eating some litchi can improve loss of appetite.

2. Litchi is rich in vitamin c and protein, which can enhance human immunity and improve disease resistance.

3. Litchi also has a certain beauty effect, which is rich in a variety of vitamins, carotene and folic acid, which can promote blood circulation, slow down the formation of melanin in the skin, prevent freckles, and make the skin more smooth and bright.

4. Litchi is rich in glucose, fructose and other sugars. Regular consumption can supplement physical fitness and improve physical fatigue.

5. Litchi has the effect of tonifying blood, stopping bleeding, detumescence and detoxification.

6. According to research, litchi has a nourishing effect on the brain, eating more litchi helps to improve sleep, replenish qi and calm the mind, and is suitable for symptoms such as forgetfulness and mental fatigue.

7. Litchi tastes sweet, but it contains a hypoglycemic substance, which is a great benefit for diabetes, but today's litchi are mostly artificially cultivated, so they taste very sweet, and diabetes should eat litchi with less sweetness and slightly sour taste.

Second, litchi edible taboos

1, should not eat on an empty stomach, its sugar content is higher, eating on an empty stomach will stimulate the gastric mucosa, and there will be symptoms of stomachache and flatulence.

2. It is not suitable to eat too much at one time. Similarly, it is rich in fructose. Eating a large amount of litchi in a short period of time will cause fructose not to be converted, thus accumulating in the blood vessels, which will stimulate the human body to secrete a large amount of insulin and cause hypoglycemia.

3. The symptoms of dry throat, swollen gums and nosebleed caused by Yin deficiency and exuberant fire should not be eaten.

4. It should not be eaten with carrots, cucumbers and animal livers.

Third, can pregnant people eat lychees?

Litchi is rich in nutrients. Litchi taste sweet, sour, warm, into the heart, spleen, liver meridian, pregnant women can eat litchi? The answer is yes. Pregnant women can eat some lychees in the right amount. But should not eat more, pregnant women eat lychee every time 100Pu 200 grams is appropriate, generally not more than 10.

Because litchi contains a lot of sugar, it may cause high blood sugar if eaten in large quantities. If the blood sugar concentration is too high, it can lead to glucose metabolism disorder, so that sugar is excreted from the kidney and glycosuria occurs. Although hyperglycemia can return to normal within 2 hours after eating too much sugar, repeated excessive consumption of litchi can continuously increase blood sugar concentration, which can easily lead to fetal size, dystocia, delayed labor, postpartum hemorrhage and infection.

In addition, eat litchi to prevent "allergy", eat lychee allergy will generally appear facial flushing, sore throat and other symptoms, there will also be sore teeth, chest tightness, stomachache, urine pain. What's more, the skin of the whole body is red and swollen, with small red bumps, and the itching is unbearable. These symptoms are conventionally called "lychee allergy".

However, for normal people, the possibility of disease caused by litchi is not great. According to epidemiological investigations, people who eat 2 kilograms of litchi a day are more likely to get "litchi disease" for a week, and most of them are children. Therefore, as long as pregnant women are not gluttonous to eat litchi, it should not be a big deal.

Will pregnant women have a miscarriage if they eat litchi?

According to traditional Chinese medicine, the main physiological change of pregnant women is "excess of yang and deficiency of yin". Because after pregnancy, Yin blood gathers to nourish the fetus, which mostly leads to Yin blood deficiency, Yin deficiency often breeds internal heat, resulting in dry stool, bitter and dry mouth, dry and hot palpitations, red tongue and exuberant liver fire. Therefore, medical scientists usually have the idea that it should be cool before the fetus, and they often use some cool and nourishing medicines, while litchi is warm and sweet, and it is very easy to "catch fire." there is a Cantonese saying that "three fires of a litchi". Some people will rot their mouth or nosebleed if they eat too much. Pregnant women will increase fetal fever after eating too much litchi, and it is easy to lead to qi imbalance, causing stomach qi inversion, vomiting, heat image of Yin injury for a long time, abdominal pain, red and other threatened symptoms of abortion. In addition, litchi has the effect of promoting blood circulation, so it is not suitable for pregnant women in the early stage of pregnancy.

However, from the point of view of western medicine, litchi itself does not have the substance that causes abortion. But litchi has a high sugar content, eating too much can easily lead to a rise in blood sugar, long-term eating a large number of lychees, may cause blood sugar concentration is too high, easy to lead to large fetus.

In short, pregnant women eating lychees moderately will not cause miscarriage, but do not eat too much each time.