You Can Eat Like this for Expectorating and Relieving Cough-luo Han Guo Pork Rib Soup
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Luo Han Guo is known as the "fairy fruit". Mainly produced in the mountainous areas of Lingui County and Yongfu County, Guilin City, it is a rare and precious local product of Guilin.
Nutritional value
The fruit has high nutritional value, rich in vitamin C (400 mg to 500 mg per 100 grams of fresh fruit), glycosides, fructose, glucose, protein, lipids, etc.
A perennial herbaceous vine, born in mountainous areas at an altitude of 300 to 500 m, with a length of 2 to 5 m. The stems are slender and dark purple. The tendril 2 branches almost to the middle. The leaves are alternate, the petiole is 2~7cm long; the leaves are cordate-ovate, membranous, 8~15cm long, 3.5~12cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, base ear-shaped, heart-shaped, whole edge, white pilose on both sides . The flowers are dioecious, the male inflorescence is raceme, and the female flowers are solitary; the calyx is funnel-shaped, pilose, 5-lobed, corolla orange-yellow, 5-lobed, apex acuminate, and white with brown pilose. The gourd fruit is round or oblong, pilose, with 10 longitudinal lines, and the seeds are light yellow. Flowering period is from June to August, fruiting period is from August to October.
This product is oval, elliptical or spherical, with a length of 4.5 to 8.5 cm and a diameter of 3.5 to 6 cm. The surface is brown, yellow-brown or green-brown, with dark patches and yellow pilose, and some have 6 to 11 vertical stripes. There are stylus scars at the top and fruit stalk marks at the base. Light body, crisp, thin peel, easy to break. Fruit pulp (medium and endocarp) is spongy and light brown. The seeds are oblate, mostly, about 1.5cm in length and 1.2cm in width; light red to brownish red, with slight depressions in the middle on both sides, radial grooves on all sides, and grooves on the edges. Smell and sweet.
In recent days, many people have a hot cough. If the hot cough is not serious, you can take care of it by yourself. "