Fig or it’s production can be placed in most of the diets such as low fat diet, loosing weight and diabetic people’s diet. Also, we use this fruit to remove chest diseases, weakness of nerves and help to muscles and to treat hemorrhoid. It gives us energy and productivity. Fig decoction is used to treat inflammation of respiratory organs and all inflammation diseases, pneumonia, pleurisy, nephritis, measles, scarlet fever and other diseases. If we cook fig and make compote, masqaty or jam, it is very useful for people suffering from indigestion or constipation in modern medicine, there is linctus made from fig it is laxative. so it is good for constipation.
Fig was a holy fruit in Athens and exporting it to other countries was forbidden, therefore, if somebody did that, he would be punished. Romans had given fig to wrestling heroes to increase their energy. Also they had fed patients who were sick for a long time, with fig to recover their energy.
People in Germany make a laxative from fig, which they give to their children.
About 120 years BC. One of the kings of Greece names Mitridetis , commanded his doctor to use fig as an antidote in the science of medicine.
In 62-113 BC, Plini declared that fig is curative and increases life length. Also, it would guaranty the health of old people in their senility time, make them younger and decrease the wrinkles on the face.
Fig’s wonderful virtue to re-establish energy after a long period of sickness is absolutely proven. This fruit would remove mental and physical tiredness and cause, Also it creates energy and power in body. It is recommended to the people who suffer from cracked lips, tongue, or palate, to eat plenty of fig . Fresh and dried figs, make the movements of large intestine and excretion easier, because there is plenty of cellulose in this fruit.
The dry fig drenched in the water (wet fig) has this virtue too. It was mentioned that fig is good for asthmatic treatment. In addition, dried fig’s water is useful for curing dry and chronic coughs, and sexual weakness.