Red jujube
For Chinese dietary therapy, Red jujube (红枣) is a food of Warm nature and Sweet flavor. A sweet warm food-medicine used in soups and porridge to harmonize flavors.
Traditional energetics
- Nature
- Warm
- Flavor
- Sweet
- Affinity
- Spleen · Stomach · Heart
- Direction of Qi
- Warming · tonifies the center
- Season
- Autumn · Winter
- Group
- Fruit
How tradition reads it
A sweet warm food-medicine used in soups and porridge to harmonize flavors.
Classic partner of ginger in decoctions and congees to harmonize digestion; tradition moderates it when there is bloating with dampness.
In the kitchen
Porridge, soups, and compotes in small amounts.
Outside Asian shops, a date or large raisin works as a study approximation.
Current nutrition note
A dried fruit rich in natural sugars and potassium, with vitamin C when fresh.
Precautions
Dried fruit concentrates sugar; remove the pit and adapt quantity.
Recipes with this food
Health notice. Educational and study content. It describes concepts of Traditional Chinese Medicine and does not replace diagnosis or treatment by a healthcare professional. Needling, medicinal herbs and invasive techniques must be applied by trained professionals. Safety guide.
