Pears have different effects when eaten raw and cooked.
Health: pear is a cold fruit when it is still alive, which has the effects of moistening lung and relieving cough, nourishing yin and clearing heat. In the dry season of autumn and winter, it is most suitable for eating pears, because it can moisten dryness and clear fire. It is also recorded in the famous medical book Compendium of Materia Medica that pears can help to treat wind-heat diseases, reduce fire, reduce phlegm and moisten the lungs, and relieve symptoms of yin deficiency caused by respiratory diseases prevalent in autumn and winter, such as sore throat, dry mouth, dry cough and thirst.
Cooked: I just said that raw pears are cold and not suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency. If the cough is caused by a cold, they are not suitable for eating raw pears. So at this time, the pear is stewed into soup, or boiled and eaten, and the coolness of the pear drops. After the pears are steamed, they also have the effects of clearing away heat and relieving cough, moistening the lungs and resolving phlegm. If you add other foods when cooking pears, there are other functions. However, it should be noted that people with deficiency and cold constitution had better eat less pears.
How to cook pears is the best?
1, pears and ebony are cooked together.
For patients with long dry cough or severe cough, Mume 10g and Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch 10g can be added and boiled with pears, and pears and soup can be eaten after cooking. Mume is sour and licorice is sweet. Cooked with pears, nourishing yin, moistening lung and relieving cough is more obvious. Mume also has the function of astringing lung and relieving cough. The boiled soup tastes sweet and refreshing, which is very suitable for children. Nourishing yin and moistening dryness, preventing and treating dry skin of mouth, nose and throat.
2, onion ginger and pear cooked together
In warm winter, dry and cold pathogens often invade the human body, showing dry cough and runny nose. Patients with this symptom can add 2 ~ 3 slices of ginger and 5 ~ 6 shallots when cooking pears for 5 ~ 6 minutes, and eat pears and drink soup, 1 ~ 2 times a day 1 time. Onion root and ginger are warm and pungent, and have the effect of pungent warming and relieving exterior syndrome. They can dispel cold pathogens and cook with pears, playing a synergistic role in dispelling cold and heat.
Step 3 steam pears
Steaming pears is a very traditional practice. Generally, one third of the bottom of the pear is cut off as a cover, the pear core is dug out, and the pulp in the middle of the pear is hollowed out and cut into pieces. Then put Fritillaria Fritillariae Cirrhosae fine powder (about 3 grams plus a pear) and crystal sugar into the pear, then put the pear on a steamer, steam it for about 45 minutes, and take it out to eat. Eating like this can not only moisten the lungs, but also relieve cough and phlegm.