What to do after eating persimmon peel

Persimmons are rich in nutrients and taste sweet and soft. Persimmons are rich in pectin, which is a water-soluble dietary fiber that can moisturize the stomach and intestines, help improve constipation, and is good for human defecation. Persimmons can also relieve coughs and improve high blood pressure. Although persimmons have many benefits, there are many taboos when eating persimmons. What should you do after eating persimmon peel? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. What should I do after eating persimmon peel?

Eating persimmon peels can easily cause stones, but it does not necessarily lead to stones. The precursor of gastric stones is persistent or recurrent bloating or dull pain, which is caused by larger stones compressing, rubbing or causing water accumulation in the renal pelvis or calyx, and often occurs at the costovertebral angle or upper abdomen on the affected side. It is recommended not to eat persimmons on an empty stomach, and also not to eat persimmons if you have diabetes, anemia, or poor spleen and stomach function.

2. The effects of persimmon

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that persimmons are sweet, astringent and cold in nature. They have the functions of clearing away heat and dryness, moistening the lungs and resolving phlegm, softening hard masses, quenching thirst and promoting salivation, strengthening the spleen, treating dysentery and stopping bleeding. They can relieve symptoms such as dry stools, hemorrhoid pain or bleeding, dry cough, sore throat, and high blood pressure. Therefore, persimmon is a natural health food for patients with chronic bronchitis, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, and internal and external hemorrhoids. If you boil persimmon leaves or mix them with water as tea, it can also promote the body's metabolism, lower blood pressure, increase coronary blood flow, and relieve cough and phlegm.

3. Precautions for eating persimmons

Because persimmons contain more tannic acid and pectin, they will form lumps of varying sizes under the action of gastric acid when the stomach is empty. If these lumps cannot pass through the pylorus to reach the small intestine, they will be retained in the stomach to form gastric persimmon stones. Small gastric persimmon stones are initially like apricot kernels, but will grow larger and larger. If gastric persimmon stones cannot be excreted naturally, it will cause gastrointestinal obstruction, resulting in symptoms such as severe upper abdominal pain, vomiting, and even vomiting blood. Gastric persimmon stones as big as fists have been found during surgery. If the stomach has a "bottom", the formation of gastric persimmon stones can be avoided.

4. Do not eat with high-protein foods such as crab, fish, shrimp, etc.

In traditional Chinese medicine, crabs and persimmons are both cold foods, so they cannot be eaten together. From the perspective of modern medicine, crabs, fish, and shrimps that are high in protein can easily coagulate into lumps, namely gastric persimmon stones, under the action of tannic acid.

5. People with diabetes should not eat

Persimmons contain 10.8% sugars, most of which are simple disaccharides and monosaccharides such as sucrose, fructose, and glucose. Therefore, they are easily absorbed after eating and cause blood sugar to rise. It is even more harmful for diabetics, especially those with poor blood sugar control.