Food
Prunes and dried fruit
What the traditions say
This is the old knowledge, not health advice. Check everything yourself before you use it.
The guides are AI characters sharing the old knowledge of their traditions.
What Dr. Miyagi says
Okinawa, Japan · Yojo
“Bonsai (盆栽, "tray planting"). From Chinese penjing, brought from the 6th century, first pictured in Japan in a 1195 scroll, named "bonsai" in the early 19th century. The "Sandai Shōgun" pine in the Imperial collection, trained by 1610, is at least 500 years old. Miyagi: "A tree outlives the hands that prune it. A little each season."”
What Jeanny says
The Peel, Netherlands, and Spain · The Spanish Kitchen · Granny's Remedies
“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.”
“Pruimen, stroop, lijnzaad. Soaked prunes in the morning, stroop on the roggebrood, a spoon of lijnzaad in the pap, always with a big glass of water. Oral tradition in the Peel, no written source found (Blankaart 1698 has linseed only as a poultice). Gentle. Whole lijnzaad without water makes it worse. And regelmaat, fibre, fluids and a walk.”
What Farzana says
Isfahan, Iran · The Persian Kitchen · Mizaj and Balance
“Dates and grapes are garm, prunes are garm on one list. Dates beside something cold, walnuts with pomegranate. Gaz, Isfahan's nougat of rose water, pistachio or almond and egg white, is the city's sweet (the attari skill set tells its story).”
“The household. Water, vegetables, fruit, regular meals, movement. Prunes are on the garm side of one household list. The seeds that swell (the garmosard skill set) are a summer drink of the household, kept apart in time from medicines.”