Pear is a common fruit in life, which is not only delicious and juicy, but also nutritious, and has the effect of removing fire and relieving cough. Wu Jutong's famous medical work "Treatise on Epidemic Febrile Diseases" in the Qing Dynasty once mentioned that five-juice drinks can promote fluid production and quench thirst, and pear juice is included in these five-juice drinks.

In dry winter, do you also use pear water as a magic weapon to moisten the lungs and relieve cough?

Hao Hongwen, chief physician of Pediatrics Department of Oriental Hospital of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, said that in terms of medicinal function, pears are sweet, slightly sour, cool and have the effect of clearing heat; It tastes sweet and slightly sour, and sour and sweet turns into yin, so it has the functions of promoting fluid production, moistening dryness and resolving phlegm; It enters the lung and stomach meridians, so it is mainly used to clear the heat of lung and stomach. "It can be used for fever, cough and wheezing, yellow phlegm caused by internal heat, and relieving hunger caused by stomach heat; It is also suitable for symptoms such as dry cough, thirst, expectoration and constipation caused by yin deficiency or yin deficiency caused by fever. It can also be used for dry cough caused by warm and dry evil, itchy throat and dry tongue. " Simply put, pears are suitable for dry cough caused by excess heat in lung and stomach, yin deficiency in lung and stomach, and warm dryness invading lung.

However, for the common cough caused by wind-cold, phlegm-dampness and phlegm-heat, or viral infection, drinking pear water is not only ineffective, but also counterproductive. Hao Hongwen emphasized that if people are pale, weak in spleen and stomach, and afraid of cold, they should not eat more pears, especially in late autumn and winter. Also, when the baby's face is yellow and dark, or his body is puffy, accompanied by phlegm in his throat, it is not suitable to drink pear water all the time. Because these two kinds belong to spleen deficiency, phlegm, pear cold, and spleen likes heat and hates cold, for people with spleen deficiency, eating too much will hurt the spleen and stomach.

Editor Wang Lu proofreads He Yan.