What fruit to eat to diminish inflammation and remove fire?
Watermelon and pear are sweet in taste and cold in nature, which can clear away heat and reduce fire, moisten lung and resolve phlegm. Olive is sweet and sour, clearing away heat, relieving sore throat and detoxifying. Carambola can produce body fluid to quench thirst, dispel wind and clear heat, and induce diuresis. Apples can produce saliva to quench thirst. Grapes clear blood heat and induce diuresis. Pineapple can clear away heat and relieve summer heat and induce diuresis. Persimmons can clear away heat and promote fluid production, moisten the lungs and quench thirst. Loquat can clear lung and relieve cough. Plums can clear liver, purge fire and induce diuresis.