1. Lily

Lily is a nourishing top grade with rich nutrition, which is good at moistening lung to relieve cough, clearing heart fire and calming nerves, and has good curative effect on tuberculosis, bronchitis, bronchiectasis and various autumn dryness diseases. Cooked food or decoction can be used to treat chronic cough, expectoration, dry cough and sore throat.

Lily porridge has the functions of moistening lung, relieving cough, nourishing heart and calming nerves. It is suitable for chronic respiratory diseases, lung heat or lung dryness, dry cough, excessive tears, residual heat in the recovery period of fever, mental trance, restlessness, insomnia and forgetfulness.

2. Almonds

Autumn dryness is easy to damage body fluids, causing dry mouth and sore throat. Almonds have three major effects: moistening the lungs, clearing accumulated food and dispersing stagnation.

almonds are rich in protein, trace elements and vitamins. It has the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough and smoothing intestine, and can relieve dry cough without phlegm and chronic cough due to lung deficiency. Almonds can be divided into sweet almonds and bitter almonds, among which sweet almonds have better lung moistening effect.

3. Sesame

Sesame can "tonify five internal organs, invigorate qi, grow muscles and fill the marrow". Vitamin E in sesame seeds can prevent the harm of lipid peroxide to the skin, make the skin whiter and brighter, and its effect of nourishing blood can also greatly improve the rough and dry skin.

Sesame can be made into "sesame paste" for dessert, and can be used for porridge and soup.

4. Chinese yam

The most suitable food for autumn tonic is Chinese yam. Chinese yam not only has the reputation of "the food of the gods", but also has the dual functions of food and medicine. It is a traditional Chinese medicine in itself, and it is also an important ingredient commonly used in Chinese medicine to make medicated diets.

Chinese medicine believes that eating yam in autumn has rich effects of tonifying kidney and essence, invigorating stomach and spleen, benefiting lung and relieving cough. Because yam contains effective substances such as amylase and polyphenol oxidase, which can promote digestion and absorption of the spleen and stomach, it is also rich in various proteases that can prevent blood lipids from depositing on the blood vessel wall and forming thrombus, which can play a good role in preventing cardiovascular diseases, especially for the elderly. Eating yam is very good for tonic and has the effect of prolonging life.

5. Lotus root

Autumn dryness is the most feared, but white lotus root can clear away heat and moisten lung, cool blood and remove blood stasis. Lotus root is delicious, and it can be eaten raw or cooked. Raw juice can cool and moisten dryness, and cooked juice can nourish stomach and spleen.

Lotus root is also divided into seven holes and nine holes. Lotus root with seven holes has a high starch content and relatively little moisture, and its texture is waxy, soft and not brittle, so it is suitable for making soup. Lotus root soup is fragrant and sweet, which is very nourishing. However, the water content of nine-hole lotus root is relatively high, and the texture is crisp and juicy, which is suitable for cold salad or stir-frying, and the crisp and juicy taste is very good.

6. Radish

As the saying goes, "Eat radish in autumn to compete with ginseng". In dry autumn and winter, radish for clearing away heat and fire is the most seasonal healthy and delicious, which is just suitable for promoting fluid production to quench thirst, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, moistening lung and removing dryness. In addition, radish is also rich in vitamins, and can promote digestion, and it is beneficial to the gas.

Carrots are known as "skin food", which can moisturize the skin. In addition, carrots are rich in pectin, which can be combined with mercury, so that harmful components in the human body can be eliminated and the skin looks more delicate and ruddy.

7. cauliflower

cauliflower is flat and sweet, and has the functions of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, clearing away lung heat and moistening the throat, and clearing away heat and toxic materials, which is more suitable for people with spleen deficiency, stomach heat, bad breath and polydipsia caused by autumn dryness.

cauliflower contains many vitamins, cellulose, carotene and trace element selenium, which are beneficial to cancer prevention. Broccoli contains more vitamin C, and protein and carotene can improve cellular immune function. Cauliflower contains a variety of indole derivatives, which can reduce estrogen levels and prevent breast cancer.

8. Honey

Honey is a very common nourishing food, and it is also a medicine. Honey has the effects of invigorating qi, tonifying middle warmer, relieving pain, moistening lung, relieving cough, relaxing bowels, removing toxic substances, etc., and is often used to treat abdominal pain, cough due to lung dryness, constipation due to intestinal dryness, sore eyes, ulcer, rubella pruritus, scald caused by fire and water, chapped hands and feet, etc.

9. Spinach

Spinach is sweet and cool, which can moisten dryness, nourish liver, nourish blood and stop bleeding, and play a role in regulating the stomach and dredging constipation. This is because spinach contains a lot of plant fiber, which can help gastrointestinal peristalsis and promote the secretion of stomach and pancreas, which is beneficial to food digestion and absorption.

Especially after eating greasy food, spinach can promote digestion and defecation, and at the same time, it has the effects of "removing fire" and "removing dryness".

1. Celery

Celery is also a cold vegetable, which can clear away heat and detoxify, and celery contains a lot of crude fiber, which can stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis and is also very beneficial for relaxing bowels and detoxifying.

celery has the function of dispersing damp-heat in the body, calming the liver and invigorating the stomach, promoting the secretion of gastric juice, stimulating appetite, and removing phlegm. Celery can be fried with dried incense and shredded pork.

11. Chrysanthemum

Autumn is the season of chrysanthemum harvest. In autumn, you can not only drink fresh and delicious chrysanthemum tea, but also nourish the yin of liver and kidney, clear the liver and improve eyesight, and treat headaches, eye pain and dizziness. Chrysanthemum is rich in vitamin A, which is an important substance to protect eye health and a good medicine for treating various eye diseases in traditional Chinese medicine. People who often feel dry eyes, especially those who often use computers, can drink more chrysanthemum tea.

12. Pear

Pear is called "natural mineral water" because it is tender and juicy. Pear, which can clear away heat and detoxify, clear heart and reduce fire, promote fluid production and moisten lungs, is most suitable as a food for moistening dryness in autumn.

besides raw food, we can also enjoy it by squeezing juice. Or add a little penghai, winter melon seeds and crystal sugar, and boil and drink, which has the effect of moistening the throat and supplementing body fluid for those with dry weather, strong physical fire, dry laryngitis and low voice.