Before the white dew, it was still a bit wet, but after the autumnal equinox it became completely dry.

This kind of dryness first damages the respiratory system: dry nose, dry mouth, and dry throat. Next is the skin. The skin will be itchy and there will be white flakes after scratching.

Then there are the deeper ones - insufficient stomach yin, intestinal dryness, dry stool and constipation. If autumn dryness continues to deepen, it will also damage the blood and kidney yin.

Fortunately, pears can relieve the initial dryness.

But fans of traditional Chinese medicine who have been trained for many years all know: pears are cold! How to eat it?

Especially Li Yangbo, the great god of the Vulcan Sect, said that he never eats pears. The teaching of "Don't eat too many pears will make you feel cold" will always be lingering in your mind. Should you eat this pear or not... …

Pears are a natural cooling fruit

Pears are cold in nature and have cooling properties, which can reduce the heat of autumn.

"Compendium of Materia Medica" says it: "moistens the lungs and cools the heart, eliminates phlegm and reduces fire, and relieves sores and alcohol poisoning."

When there is heat in our body, smoking causes the throat to burn. , smoking too much soot, or being drunk, and experiencing symptoms of dry throat pain, dry cough, and thirst, eating some raw pears is a good choice, it is simply a natural nectar for reducing fire.

Anyone who suffers from fireworks, coal fire, alcohol poisoning, or all kinds of heat will be relieved immediately by eating pears! If you have to burn coal for heating in cold areas and your nose and throat feel uncomfortable, you can eat some raw pears.

People with a good spleen and stomach can eat raw pears directly to relieve the deficiency of fire. If Yang Qi is sufficient, they will be willful.

But if the middle Jiao is deficient and cold, and you have diarrhea when you catch a cold: Eating raw pears will damage your spleen yang.

Pear, "if you eat too much, you will feel cold", which means that the middle Jiao is deficient and cold.

People with deficient spleen and stomach will have insufficient Yang Qi in the middle burner. It is usually unable to transport food and water in the body, so eating raw pears makes it even colder.

After eating pears, I found that my mouth would spit, burps smelled bad, and my tongue coating could even become fatter with tooth marks, and my stool would become thinner and cause diarrhea.

Don’t eat pears, and even eat fruits with caution.

Drink a cup of ginger water or Yangzhong rice tea immediately to remedy the problem and warm the spleen yang.

Yangzhong rice tea is a fried rice recipe that relieves stomach cold.

Pear, when eaten raw, clears away the heat in the six internal organs; when eaten cooked, it nourishes the yin in the five internal organs.

The first step of moisturizing in autumn: Stewing pears in original juice

The method is very simple

Cut the pears into pieces with the skin and stew them in a pressure cooker. There is no need to peel off the pear skin when cooking pears, as the pear skin has the best effect on moisturizing the lungs. (If you like it sweet, add a little rock sugar to taste)

Add the total amount of water no more than half of the total amount of pears, and simmer it in the rice cooking mode.

Or place it directly in a stew pot and simmer slowly for one hour.

The pears steamed in this way retain the aroma of the pear, have natural sweetness, soft texture, and are very moist. People with weak spleen and stomach can also eat it.

If you have a cough mixed with cold and heat after an external infection in autumn, you should eat an upgraded version: pear stewed with pepper.

After the external infection ends in autumn, there are often residual coughs, runny nose, and phlegm, which are procrastinating and cannot be eradicated. This is a state of intertwined cold and heat.

At this time, you should add some Sichuan peppercorns when stewing pears - it warms, dispels cold, and invigorates the spleen and stomach. It neutralizes the coolness of pears and can balance cold and heat.

Ingredients: One Sydney pear and about 5-10 Sichuan peppercorns.

Preparation method

Just stew pears in the same way as above and add Sichuan peppercorns. You can also cut the autumn pear from the upper 1/3, take out the pear heart, use chopsticks to poke more than ten holes in the pear flesh, add Sichuan peppercorns, add water, cover the upper part of the pear, and stew it as it is.

If you have wind-heat cough and yellow sticky phlegm, you should drink chrysanthemum and snow pear soup.

Friends with wind-heat cough, the main symptoms are: frequent coughing during the day, yellow phlegm or no phlegm, difficulty in coughing up, dry throat and pain, thirst and other symptoms.

At this time, pear should be used together with chrysanthemum. Sydney pear can clear away heat and moisturize dryness, while chrysanthemum can clear away scorched heat. The combination of the two is suitable for coughs caused by wind-heat attacking the lungs.

Ingredients: 5 chrysanthemums, one pear, appropriate amount of rock sugar, and some ginger slices if the spleen and stomach are weak.

To make the pear, wash it and cut it into small pieces, put it together with the chrysanthemum in a health pot and cook for 15 minutes. Finally, add rock sugar and you can drink it.

Lily, Tremella, and Snow Pear Soup: Gently moisturize the yin of the five internal organs

Many people only know that spring should nourish the liver. In fact, after the beginning of autumn, it is the time when the liver needs to be nourished and cleansed. .

Metal overcomes wood. The gradually stronger metal energy will make people with weak liver and weak wood even more unbalanced.

All kinds of dryness in autumn must be solved by nourishing yin.

Dry nose, dry mouth, dry throat, dry skin, dry intestines and dry stools, insufficient stomach yin and strong stomach fire, and even insufficient yin in the liver and kidneys.

Or there may be two dry coughs from time to time, dry cough for several days, less and sticky phlegm, dry and sore throat, dry lips and nose, and drinking water does not quench the thirst.

It is not enough to just eat pears. You must use white fungus, lily and pears soup to calmly nourish the yin of the five internal organs.

Method

Soak the white fungus in advance and simmer it for 10 hours (or simmer it with water). After it is soft and waxy, add lily and pear pieces and simmer until soft. Brown sugar or rock sugar can be added to taste.

Which kind of pear should you choose to really moisturize your five internal organs?

"Materia Medica Seeking Truth" contains: "However, only Ru pears, goose pears, and Xiao pears can be eaten, but Yu pears cannot cure diseases."

In other words, it can The only pears that are used for medicinal purposes and have the effect of nourishing yin and moisturizing dryness are "Ru pears, Goose pears and Xiao pears". Other varieties of pears can only be eaten as fruit snacks.