Lychee
For Chinese dietary therapy, Lychee (荔枝) is a food of Warm nature and Sweet · Sour flavor. A warm fruit from southern China; tradition describes that excess "generates heat" and advises moderation.
Traditional energetics
- Nature
- Warm
- Flavor
- Sweet · Sour
- Affinity
- Spleen · Liver
- Direction of Qi
- Warming · mobilizes
- Season
- Summer
- Group
- Fruit
How tradition reads it
A warm fruit from southern China; tradition describes that excess "generates heat" and advises moderation.
Studied in fruit salads and chilled sweet soups that temper its character; tradition avoids excess, described as "lychee fever" from heat.
In the kitchen
Fresh, in fruit salads, or in chilled sweet soups.
Off season it can be studied with canned lychee in juice or, for texture, with peeled muscat grapes.
Current nutrition note
Rich in vitamin C; unripe fruit on an empty stomach has been linked to hypoglycemia in children.
Precautions
Unripe fruit eaten on an empty stomach has been linked to severe hypoglycemia in children; eat ripe fruit, in moderation, not as a sole meal.
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