Snow pear is not crystal pear.

Snow pear, pear name, meat tender white as snow, so called, is a common fruit. According to the "Materia Medica", "pear, profit also, its nature downward fluent."

It is used medicinally to cure wind-heat, moisten the lungs, cool the heart, eliminate phlegm, reduce fire and detoxification. Medical research has proved that pears do moisten the lungs and clear dryness, relieve cough and phlegm, nourish the role of blood and muscle. Therefore, patients with acute bronchitis and upper respiratory tract infections of the throat dry, itchy, painful, mute, thick phlegm, constipation, urinary redness, expectoration are effective.

Pear and lower blood pressure and yin clear heat effect, so hypertension, hepatitis, cirrhosis patients often eat pear has benefits. Taste sweet and cold, with the birth of the dry, clearing heat and phlegm, nourishing blood and muscle effect, especially suitable for autumn consumption. Pears can be eaten raw, can also be steamed, can also be made into soup and soup. But Cangxi Snow Pear is cold, once should not eat more. Especially cold spleen and stomach, abdominal cold pain and blood deficiency, can not eat more. p>Growing environment:

Light-loving and temperature-loving, light-loving fruit trees, annual sunshine between 1600-1700 hours, adaptable to the soil, to the deep soil, loose soil, water permeability and water retention performance is good, low water table sandy loam is the most appropriate.

Distribution range:

Guangyuan city, sichuan province, cangxi county, there is the hometown of Snow Pear's reputation; Anhui shexian, qimen and huoning around the huizhou Snow Pear, history is famous. Hebei shijiazhuang zhaozhou snow pear is famous all over the country. Thousands of years Zhaozhou, ten thousand acres of snow trees, and the earliest can be traced back to more than 2000 years ago, as early as in the Qin and Han dynasties began Zhaozhou Snow Pear was selected as tribute to the court.

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