While we are glad that we don't have to sweat all day, we are faced with another kind of trouble: dry mouth, dry nose, itchy throat.

Yes, "autumn dryness" is coming! Be sure to pay attention to moisturizing in autumn! So what do you eat in autumn? The first promotion of health care-pear.

Pear, also known as Kuaiguo, is planted in most parts of China. It is harvested when the fruit is ripe from August to September every year. It can be eaten fresh or sliced and dried in the sun. It is sweet, slightly sour and cool, and its small body hides five magical effects:

Moisten lung and clear dryness.

In autumn, people are prone to feel dryness and evil, such as coughing and dry mouth.

Pear is sweet, slightly sour, cool, and has the effects of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, moistening lung, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm. Drinking one or two glasses of pear juice every day can relieve dryness.

Promote digestion

Pear is rich in dietary fiber and is the best "cleaner" of gastrointestinal tract. Drinking a glass of pear juice after a meal can eliminate a lot of harmful substances accumulated in the body and avoid constipation.

At the same time, eating pears can also promote appetite, help digestion, and have diuretic, laxative and antipyretic effects, which can be used to supplement water and nutrition during high fever.

Nourishing yin and clearing heat

Pear has the effects of lowering blood pressure, nourishing yin and clearing heat, and is suitable for patients with hypertension, heart disease, hepatitis and cirrhosis.

Protect the liver

Pear contains more sugar and vitamins, which has a certain protective effect on the liver and is especially suitable for drinkers.

Prevention of gout

Pears help the kidneys excrete uric acid and prevent gout, rheumatism and arthritis.

There are many varieties in the market, such as Yali pear, Gongli pear and Xiangli pear, which one is the most beneficial to human health?

a kind of pear grown in Hebei Province

Chinese medicine believes that Yali pear can "moisten the lungs and cool the heart, eliminate phlegm and reduce fire, relieve sore poison and alcohol poison, and is suitable for bronchitis, cough, polydipsia and constipation".

The famous Shanghai "pear paste candy" is made from Hebei Yali pear, which is a traditional medicine for moistening lung, relieving cough, promoting fluid production and resolving phlegm.

Gongli

Gong pear has delicate meat and sweet juice, which is a good product to get rid of boredom and hangover.

bergamot pear

There is a saying in Xinjiang that "the grapes in Turpan, the melons in Hami and the fragrant pears in Korla have no residue".

Among all pears, only Korla pears are divided into male pears and female pears. Those with calyx, like beards, are male pears, and those without calyx are female pears. In contrast, the mother pear tastes better.

Pear

Red crisp pear is cultivated. The female parent is Korla pear and the male parent is Yali pear. Crispy pear has a green-yellow peel background and a bright red sunny side, and its flesh is white, with dense and fine flesh, rich juice and strong fragrance.

sand pear

Pear is cool, which can treat heat, clear away heat and detoxify. There is a saying in Guangdong that "eating pears without heat" is the best description of the nature of pears.

Tip: 4 ways to choose pears.

First, the pear skin is thin;

Second, the navel of pear is deep, the scope is large, and the concave and convex levels are distinct;

Third, the pear shape is regular, round and full;

Fourth, the surface is smooth, delicate and free of spots, and the color is uniform.

Although pears are fruits, they are cold and people with weak spleen and stomach may have diarrhea after eating them. If you want to eat, it is best to steam the pears over water or stew them before eating.

Practice: 2 Sydney, washed, peeled, cored and sliced, with a proper amount of rock sugar and one piece of old tangerine peel, put them together in a pot, boil over high fire, and simmer for 15 minutes, and then pour them out for drinking.

Efficacy: moistening lung and relieving cough.

Practice: wash and chop pears, take juice to remove residues, put them in casserole with white rice and rock sugar, and add water to make porridge.

Efficacy: this porridge can improve the baby's immunity, and also has the functions of promoting fluid production, moistening dryness, clearing away heat and relieving cough. Can be used to prevent and treat symptoms such as baby's thirst, upset, wind-heat cough and so on. Suitable for babies over 7 months old.

Tip: Pears used for making Sydney cream, stewed rock sugar and other medicines are mainly Yali pears.

Pears are cold in nature, but different kinds of pears have different degrees of cold.

Through research, Yali pear, Xiangli pear and Gongli pear, which are bigger, are almost the same in coldness. In contrast, pear with rough skin and smooth flesh and imported pears are even colder, namely:

In addition, people with deficiency and cold cough should not eat pears raw.

If these people really want to eat, they must steam the pears over water or stew them before eating. People suffering from stomach cold, diarrhea, or puerperal women and children with acne should not eat pears.

Healthy people should not eat more at once, and a pear a day is more appropriate. As for the deficiency of the spleen and stomach, people who often have abdominal cold pain, and patients with blood deficiency, don't eat pears as you like, otherwise it will easily hurt the spleen and stomach.