Effect of removing fire: Persimmon is one of the cold fruits, so eating persimmon can help reduce internal heat. Persimmon has the effects of clearing away heat and moistening dryness, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and is one of the ideal health-care fruits for patients with chronic bronchitis. If you can eat a persimmon after a meal, it will have a good auxiliary treatment effect on cough.

How to eat: You can eat raw persimmons or make steamed persimmons with rock sugar. The materials include three dried persimmons (pedicled), clear water and appropriate amount of rock sugar, which are steamed until the dried persimmons are soft and edible. It has the effects of moistening lung, resolving phlegm and stopping bleeding.

2. Water chestnut

The characteristics of aquatic plants, together with the black skin and white flesh, are among the best in terms of fire reduction index in traditional Chinese medicine. Water chestnut tastes sweet, astringent and cool; It can tonify spleen and benefit qi, strengthen thigh and knee, strengthen strength and benefit qi, and has certain anti-cancer and weight loss effects, and also has certain relief for skin diseases. It is beneficial for the elderly to eat regularly.

How to eat: Squeezing water chestnut stem has the effect of relieving alcoholism. Eating water chestnut raw has the effect of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat and removing fire. Cooked water chestnut has the effect of invigorating spleen, and diabetic patients can quench their thirst by eating raw water chestnut. Many people eat raw water chestnut and chew the skin with their mouths without disinfection and sterilization, so they are easily infected with ginger leaf disease. We should pay attention to this problem.

3. Lemon

Effect of removing fire: Lemon tastes extremely sour and sweet, and has the functions of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst and dispelling summer heat. Citric acid can be combined with calcium ions to form a soluble chromium complex, which can alleviate the role of calcium ions in promoting blood coagulation. Therefore, patients with hypertension and myocardial infarction often drink lemon drinks, which is of great benefit to improving symptoms.

How to eat: Slice fresh lemon, drink it with boiling water, and drink it after breakfast every morning, which has the effect of removing internal fire, and its faint fragrance can cheer people up. It's best to drink it while it's hot, but it will taste bitter when it's cold.

4. Papaya

Effect of removing fire: papaya is sweet, flat and slightly cold, which can help digestion, relieve summer heat and thirst, moisten lungs and relieve cough, and is very suitable. Living things complete their physiological activities through the catalysis and regulation of enzymes. If human cells lack enzymes, they may be abnormal. Green papaya contains a lot of papain, which is about twice that of mature papaya. Eating papaya enzyme can decompose food or decaying cell tissue or garbage in the body, detoxify, improve the function of imbalance, improve physical fitness, and help to beautify and relieve dry skin.

How to eat: In addition, it can also prevent and treat asthmatic cough by decocting cooked papaya and persimmon with water.

5. Pears

Effect of removing fire: Pear is sweet and slightly sour, cool in nature, and enters the lung and stomach meridians. It has the effects of promoting fluid production, moistening dryness, clearing away heat, resolving phlegm, and relieving hangover. It can be used for dry cough, thirst, constipation, etc. caused by yin injury or yin deficiency due to fever, and can also be used for polydipsia, cough and asthma, yellow phlegm and other symptoms caused by internal heat.

How to eat: Besides raw food, we can also enjoy it by squeezing juice. Or add a little penghai, winter melon seeds and crystal sugar, and boil and drink, which has the effect of moistening the throat and supplementing body fluid for those with dry weather, strong physical fire, dry laryngitis and low voice.