Fresh fruit

“Fruit spice. Togolese healers use it with grains of paradise and Khaya senegalensis for worm infections. The fruit oil is rich in pinenes.”

“Fruit used as a soup spice and in traditional black soap. Traditionally used for diarrhoea, vomiting and stomach pain (fruit), for convulsions (stem, fruit and leaf mixtures), and for fever, rheumatism, skin conditions and prostate trouble (Heliyon 2024 review).”

“The plate: mostly sweet potato and vegetables, soy, seaweed, a little grain, very little fish or meat, almost no sugar, dairy, fruit or pickles. About half the calories per gram of a typical American diet, so people felt full on fewer calories (Willcox and Willcox 2014).”

“Miyagi's video message: the 8-glasses rule is a myth, let thirst be your teacher, warm water in the morning, barley tea through the day, soup, fruit and rice carry water too. The exceptions are not optional: he names them every time.”

“Karnemelk, beschuit, rijstwater, geraspte appel. Oral tradition in the Peel, no written source found. The comfort food of a sick belly. Next to it, always drinking: two to three litres a day and a glass after every watery stool, no soft or energy drinks, ORS from the drogist for watery diarrhoea and vomiting, above all for children and the old.”

“Ciruelas (prunes and the summer plums), higos (figs), kiwi: the abuelas' answer to a slow bowel, with a glass of water, fibre and a walk. Dried fruit is sugar, which counts for diabetics.”

“Never in pregnancy or breastfeeding: wormwood, sage by mouth, pennyroyal, rue, juniper berries, large amounts of parsley seed, St John's wort, comfrey, aloe latex, senna long term. A late period with a pregnancy possible: no herb at all until that is answered.”

“The little donkey and the lamp in the window. The little donkey took the long road to the market and stayed too long looking at the apples. When he started home, the sky turned blue, then purple, then dark. He could not see the road. He stood still and his ears drooped. Then, far away, a small yellow light. Baba always left a lamp in the window for whoever was late. The little donkey walked toward it, clip, clop, clip, clop, and the light grew bigger and warmer, until he was home and Baba was scratching his ears. There is always a lamp for you, dušo. Close your eyes.”

“Shan zha 山楂, hawthorn fruit (Crataegus pinnatifida). Sour, sweet, slightly warm. Spleen, stomach, liver. Dissolves food stagnation, above all from meat and fat, moves qi, scatters stasis. Candied on a stick it is tang hulu 糖葫芦, the winter street snack of Beijing. Charred, with medicated leaven and barley sprout, it makes the "three charred immortals" (焦三仙) for a heavy belly. Leads Bao He Wan (Zhu Danxi).”

“五谷为养，五果为助 (wǔ gǔ wéi yǎng, wǔ guǒ wéi zhù): the five grains nourish, the five fruits assist (a Suwen line).”

“The Medicine Buddha. Sangye Menla (sangs rgyas sman bla), the Medicine Buddha, is painted deep blue, the colour of lapis lazuli. In his right hand he holds the arura fruit, in his left a bowl of nectar. Ang loves this picture. "The greatest healer in our tradition, and what does he hold? A fruit and a bowl. Not a sword, not a jewel. A fruit and a bowl. Food first."”

“Arura, the king of medicines. Arura (a ru ra) is the Tibetan name of the chebulic myrobalan (Terminalia chebula), and Tibetans call it the king of medicines. It is the fruit in the Medicine Buddha's right hand. With its two companions, barura (belleric myrobalan) and kyurura (emblic myrobalan), it forms "the three fruits", found in a great many Tibetan medicines. The stories of healing and long life around them are tradition, not proven effects. Ang tells them for the picture of the healer holding a fruit, never as a product to take.”

“Quince (beh). The fruit is cold and wet in Persian medicine, and the gel of its seeds is the tradition's drink for an acute cough, because Persian medicine favours wet, mucilaginous plants for that complaint.”

“The warning. The berries in the rice are food. Berberine pills and "barberry extract" capsules are something else: the berberine in barberry sits mostly in the root and root bark, and EFSA could set no safe daily amount for berberine from plant preparations (draft opinion, January 2026).”

“The bees and the flowers. After that verse the text carries a supplementary verse: "As honey is collected by bees from various fruits and flowers, similarly ojas is collected" from all the body's work. She tells it that way, and she quotes it as a verse that follows Charaka Sutra 17/75. "Every good meal, every good sleep, every calm day is a flower. Ojas is the honey."”

“The berries go into kvass, beer and home spirits, and the branches into a sharp venik. One line: Juniperus sabina, the savin juniper, is a different plant and banned in Dutch herbal products.”

“Winter. Sauerkraut, frozen berries, mors, kefir, smoked fish, kasha, soup every day, the banya on Saturday, tea from the samovar let to cool a little.”

“Gudeim and lalob. Gudeim, the small fruit of a Grewia shrub, and lalob, the date of the desert from the Balanites tree, made into drinks in the regions where they grow. She knows them from the market and her travels, not from her grandmother's yard.”

“From the trees. Sudanese drinks are made from the fruit pulp of aradaib (tamarind, Tamarindus indica), gudeim (Grewia tenax), gunguleiz or gongolez (the fruit of the baobab, the tebeldi tree) and lalob (Balanites aegyptiaca). In rural Sudan the leaves and young roots of baobab and tamarind are important food too. "In the dry country the trees are the cupboard."”

“Apple Watch / Garmin: Improving rapidly. Less accurate than Oura for sleep staging. Better for overall health/fitness tracking.”

“Simmer bones 12-24 hours (beef) or 6-12 hours (chicken) with apple cider vinegar (draws minerals from bones).”