Herbal Remedies

Red dates are one of the most popular health foods with the Chinese people. The health benefits of red dates are immense and these dates are often used as food, in making health tonic, to be added in traditional herbs, and even in desserts. WHAT ARE RED DATES? Red dates, also called jujube, are brown-red stone oval fruits with thin shiny skin. They vary in sizes between 2.5 and 6 centimeters, and grow on trees. The red date tree, Ziziphus zizyphus, is also called jujube tree or Ziziphus jujube. The tree is mainly found in Asian countries, but also in Arab countries and for several hundred years in southern European countries. Jujube trees are now also growing in the USA, where production of red dates has increased dramatically. The history of the red dates began in the new Stone Age (Neolithic), about 8000 years ago. The people of the ancient Zhou Dynasty (circa 1046-256 BC) used the red dates to brew wine. Since that time the red dates were often mentioned in the Tradi