Pear is cold and rich in malic acid, citric acid, trace elements and vitamins. Chinese medicine believes that pear has the functions of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, clearing away heat and reducing fire, nourishing blood and promoting granulation, moistening lung and removing dryness. It is most suitable for patients with cough caused by respiratory tract infection, and it is often steamed with traditional Chinese medicine Ephedra.

2. Loquat

Loquat is sweet and sour in taste, flat in nature, enters the lung and stomach meridians, and has the effects of clearing away lung heat, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough. "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" records: treating lung flaccidity and tuberculosis, vomiting blood, coughing and spitting, wheezing and yelling; It also treats infantile convulsion and fever. Therefore, loquat is often used to treat lung heat, cough and chronic cough.

3. Apple

Apples with skins can clear the lungs better. This is because pectin and antioxidants in apple peel can reduce the inflammatory reaction in the lungs. Apple peel is rich in natural antioxidant quercetin, which can protect the lungs from pollutants. Eating at least five apples a week can improve lung function.

4. Persimmons

Although eating persimmons is beneficial to the lungs and simple, you can't eat them on an empty stomach. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that persimmon is cold, sweet and slightly astringent, and belongs to lung, spleen, stomach and large intestine meridians. It has many functions, such as moistening lung and resolving phlegm, clearing heat and promoting fluid production, astringing intestine to stop dysentery, invigorating spleen and benefiting stomach, promoting fluid production and moistening intestine, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. For people with dry cough and phlegm in autumn, eating persimmons can effectively moisten the lungs and resolve phlegm.

5. Grapes

Why can grapes clear the lungs? Because grapes are rich in vitamins and minerals, it is a nutrient that needs to be supplemented urgently in foggy days. Grapes also have the effect of appetizing and digestion, and at the same time strengthen the spleen and stomach, which is helpful to the digestion of food.

6. Pomegranate

Although pomegranate is very troublesome to eat, its lung moistening effect cannot be denied. Pomegranate has the effects of promoting fluid production and quenching polydipsia. Any body fluid deficiency, dry mouth and throat. Pomegranate juice or decoction can be used to clear away heat and toxic materials, moisten the lungs and relieve cough.

7. Sugarcane

Sugarcane juice is flat and sweet, which is a good product for relieving fever, promoting fluid production, moistening dryness and nourishing. It can help the spleen to harmonize the middle warmer, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough, treat choking and stop vomiting, and has the reputation of "Tianshengfumai Decoction". Traditional Chinese medicine often uses it as a refreshing and fluid-promoting agent to treat dry mouth, insufficient body fluid, dry stool, high fever and polydipsia.

8. Citrus

Citrus is cool and sweet, which has the effects of promoting fluid production, relieving cough, moistening lung and resolving phlegm, sobering up and diuresis. It is suitable for weak body, thirst due to insufficient body fluid after fever, and juicing or honey decoction is especially good for treating cough caused by lung heat in children.