Pears and sugarcane are health care and medicinal fruits in winter. Pear has the functions of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, clearing away heat and reducing fire, nourishing blood and promoting granulation, moistening lung and removing dryness, and is most suitable for patients with internal heat in winter. It is especially suitable for cough due to lung heat, wind-heat in children, dry throat and sore throat, and dry stool. Pear also has the functions of lowering blood pressure, clearing away heat and calming nerves, protecting liver and helping digestion. However, pear is cold, children with spleen and stomach deficiency and indigestion should not eat more.
Sugarcane is nourishing, clearing away heat and rich in nutrition. It has certain curative effect on hypoglycemia, dry stool, dysuria, nausea and vomiting, cough due to deficiency heat, high fever and polydipsia. People who are overworked or faint from hunger will refresh themselves as long as they eat two pieces of sugar cane. But people with cold sugar cane, spleen and stomach deficiency and stomachache should eat less.
In addition, apples, oranges, bananas and hawthorn are all suitable for winter consumption. Apples can produce fluid to quench thirst, strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea; Oranges can regulate qi, stimulate appetite, promote digestion and resolve phlegm; Bananas can clear away heat and moisten intestines, lower blood pressure and prevent hemorrhoids; Hawthorn can dilate blood vessels, reduce blood lipid and enhance and regulate myocardial function. But when eating these fruits, enough is enough, not the more the better. Choosing the right fruit can help you spend the winter healthily.