According to Oriental medicine, lychee has very hot properties (lychee seeds are even hotter than lychee pulp, so caution should be exercised when making medicine). Lychee pulp is very sweet and non-toxic.

According to Oriental medicine, lychee has a very hot nature (the lychee seed is even hotter than the lychee pulp, so caution should be exercised when making medicine). Lychee pulp is very sweet and non-toxic (some documents say it is poisonous, perhaps due to the overly sweet and hot nature of lychee). Lychee has the effect of benefiting the heart, warming the spleen, nourishing the kidneys, enriching the blood, nourishing the liver, eliminating thirst, refreshing the mind, making the mind clear, increasing strength, increasing body temperature, eliminating cold, strengthening yang, reducing swelling, and beautifying the complexion.

Lychee is often used in two forms, fresh and dried. To eat, both forms are used, and to make medicine, the dried form is often used. Both ways of eating and making medicine, fresh or dried, must be used in moderation. Use in moderation to bring benefits and avoid unwanted things. If you add heat medicine (lychee) to a heat disease, it is like adding fuel to the fire, so it is harmful! Lychee is only harmful to the body, usually because healthy people eat too much or do not know that their heat cannot match the hot nature of lychee, and sick people do not know to abstain when they have a yang disease, have heat, yin deficiency, and high blood sugar (then they should not eat lychee).

As we know, “hot lychee” if eaten in large quantities will cause heat-related diseases such as itching, prickly heat, pimples, restlessness, and constipation. The Chinese have a saying “A lychee is worth 3 torches”. The Eastern medical community says that lychee causes “hot flashes”, which can lead to “lychee intoxication” with symptoms such as palpitations, dizziness, headaches… which often occur in healthy people who eat too much lychee at once. There are cases of convulsions. The book “Ben Cao Tung Tan” wrote: Eating too much lychee will cause fever, thirst… swollen gums, nosebleeds… People with heat constitution and heat disease should not eat lychee.

Some medicinal uses of lychee:

1. Nervous and physical weakness including impotence

– Soak 500g-1,000g fresh lychee in one liter of alcohol for 7-10 days. Drink in the evening, 25-30ml each time.

– 10 dried lychees: eat in the evening for 1-2 months. Best in the cool autumn and winter seasons.

2. Abdominal pain, acute and chronic diarrhea, spleen deficiency causing diarrhea in the early morning.

Cook 5-10 dried lychee porridge. You can add other ingredients such as Chinese yam, 10g lotus seeds, 10g white beans.

3. Uterine prolapse. Use 500g fresh lychee pulp to boil and drink, or soak in alcohol to drink.

Uterine contraction after giving birth: Boil 10 dried lychee pulp to drink.

4. Beans, measles do not grow – boil 16g dried lychee pulp to drink.

5. Bad breath: Chew and hold dried lychee pulp.

6. Swollen pimples: Crush fresh or dried lychee pulp with apricot and apply

7. Long-term hiccups that do not go away: Burn 7 lychees, crush them, and drink with hot water (eliminates weekly hiccups in some incurable diseases…).

8. Dry throat in singers and teachers: Chew and hold a few dried lychee pulps every day to maintain the vocal cords. Do not use when there is heat inflammation, accompanied by bleeding gums.

9. Rapid heartbeat (palpitations), rapid breathing when exerting: Soak dried lychee pulp or dried lychee in water to drink.

10. Shoulder and back pain, abdominal pain due to cold: Boil fresh or dried lychee to drink.

Cure diseases caused by eating lychee: Boil lychee peel to drink or drink a cup of hot lemon water.