Is there any basis for the saying "men fear persimmons, women fear pears"?

Summary: Is there any basis for the saying "men fear persimmons, women fear pears"?

Diet should be adapted to a person's constitution. For example, some people get an upset stomach every time they eat apples on an empty stomach, while others have no problem at all. The saying we discuss below, "men fear persimmons, women fear pears," is also somewhat related to people's accumulated experience. Some believe that after sexual intercourse, men should not eat persimmons and women should not eat pears, because both are cold-natured foods, and eating these two things under such circumstances may cause a certain amount of harm to the body.

However, whether there is really any scientific truth to it is truly hard to say, and of course it may also be a claim that people have passed around and distorted. There is a little story that tells of this saying: a man went out to work and came home; in the past, because communication was inconvenient and telephones were not as widespread as they are today, he had not notified his wife; when the man returned home and saw his wife sitting in the room with another man from the village, he was immediately overcome with jealousy and suspected whether his wife had been unfaithful to him, while the other man hurriedly defended himself, saying: "Don't misunderstand, nothing at all happened with your wife," and after saying this he picked up a persimmon from the table and started eating it, while the man's wife also picked up a pear in the room and started eating it, saying to the man, now you should believe it, right?

After the above story spread around the village, it became the current saying "men fear persimmons, women fear pears." Regardless of whether this story that has been passed around is true or false, it at least shows that in a specific region and specific environment, people are still willing to believe the so-called "men fear persimmons, women fear pears."

As for this saying, Science Xingnong believes that it does not necessarily have a very scientific basis, but sometimes dietary taboos still need to be heeded, just like the saying above, which may also be some words of experience that people have summed up in life experience. And as for the so-called saying that men fear persimmons and women fear pears, it is not saying they are not allowed to eat them, but perhaps that they should not be eaten in large amounts, and should be eaten in moderation.

And looking at the characteristics of the two fruits, persimmons and pears, traditional Chinese medicine considers them cool in nature and cold on the stomach, and eating too much of them means the stomach and intestines cannot hold up, easily triggering symptoms of spleen-stomach deficiency cold, and for most women, whose constitutions are already on the weaker side, eating too much of them will be even more likely to trigger some illnesses.

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