One, Sydney

Food Description: common fruit, because the meat is tender and white as snow, so named. Contains malic acid, citric acid, vitamin B1, B2, C, carotene and other trace elements.

Lung principle: white into the lungs, so white food have maintenance effect on the lungs. Sydney water, sex slightly cold, can be born to moist and dry, clearing heat and phlegm.

Therapeutic use: can be eaten directly.

Ice Sugar Snow Pear Soup: first of all, the snow pear peeled off the skin, with a utensil ground into a velvet or cut into several pieces, add a little rock sugar, water, steam half an hour on slow fire can be. This is still a very delicious dessert.

Two, fungus

Food Description: fungi fungus ginkgo biloba, ginkgo biloba genus plants, there is a "fungus in the crown" of the name. Sex flat, taste sweet, light, non-toxic. It is a valuable nutritional tonic, but also a strong tonic.

Moistening principle: the same white food, ginkgo is more temperate, more suitable for cold or stomach than Sydney, but also has the role of beneficial gas intestinal clearing.

Therapeutic use: the first soaked silver fungus, remove the root chopped, to cook rice porridge after the pot to join, cook for about twenty minutes, in a half-melted mushy state is best. More can be stewed with pear into silver ear pear soup.

Three, honey

Food Description: Bees from the flowers of flowering plants nectar in the hive made honey. The composition of honey in addition to glucose, fructose species also contain a variety of vitamins, minerals and amino acids.

Lung principle: honey glucose and fructose, the human body is the most easily absorbed, but also contains a variety of inorganic salts, organic acids and trace elements similar to the concentration of human serum, sweet taste, flat, into the spleen, lungs, colon meridian, have nourishing, moistening dryness, detoxification effect, commonly used in the treatment of lung dryness and cough.

Therapeutic use: warm and cool water to serve in order to clear heat. Every morning when you get up, pour 1 to 2 spoonfuls, with warm cool water, drink on an empty stomach, not only can moisten the lungs, but also detoxification and nourishment.

Four, yam

Food Description: perennial herbaceous plants, tuberous cylindrical, containing a large amount of starch and protein, as well as vitamins, fats, choline and other components, as well as iodine, calcium, iron, phosphorus and other indispensable inorganic salts and trace elements.

Lung principle: contains a mixture of polysaccharide proteins "mucin", the human body has a special health effect, tonifying the spleen, stomach, lungs and kidneys.

Therapeutic use: yam barley porridge. Will strengthen the spleen to dispel dampness of barley and tonifying lungs and essence of yam 50 grams each, daily porridge drink, men and women have the function of tonifying the lungs, but each other to balance out the barley cold and yam sticky.

Five, lily

Food Description: perennial herbaceous bulbous plant, nutritious, in addition to containing starch, protein, fat and calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1.B2.C and other nutrients, but also contains some special nutrients, such as colchicine and a variety of alkaloids.

Moisturizing principle: these alkaloid components not only has a good nutritional tonic function, the lily also has a nourishing heart and tranquility, moistening the lungs to stop coughing, replenish the efficacy of the middle and benefit the qi, on the sick and weak is very beneficial, very suitable for consumption in the dry winter.

The therapeutic use: pay attention to the use of fresh lilies rather than dried, so that the best effect of the lungs.

Lily porridge: 60 grams of lily, 60 grams of round-grained rice, first lily and round-grained rice were washed, put in a pot, add the right amount of water, simmering on a small fire. To be lily and round-grained rice cooked, add sugar 6 grams, can be consumed. For the middle-aged and elderly frail body and have heartburn insomnia, low fever and irritability is more suitable. In addition, in the lily porridge add silver fungus, have the effect of nourishing Yin moisturizing lungs.

Daily diet, fruits and vegetables and the consumption of by-products is very beneficial to health, eat more of the above food can stop coughing and phlegm, while playing a role in clearing the lungs, the benefits of improving their own immunity, while reducing the body's chances of disease!