Raw pears are cold and sweet, and have the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough, nourishing yin and clearing heat, especially suitable for autumn consumption. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that pears are beneficial and versatile. It can treat wind and heat, moisten lung, cool heart, eliminate phlegm, reduce fire and detoxify. Modern medical research has proved that pears do have the functions of moistening lung, clearing dryness, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, nourishing blood and promoting granulation. Therefore, it has a good curative effect on symptoms such as dry throat, itching, pain, hoarseness, thick phlegm, constipation and red urine in patients with acute bronchitis and upper respiratory tract infection.
Raw pears are boiled into paste with crystal sugar or honey, which can be used to treat cough caused by lung heat. Or take pig lung 120g, wash and cut into pieces, put it in water for 5 minutes, then wash it with cold water and dry it. 9 grams of Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae is washed and broken; Peel and wash the Sydney, remove the pedicle and the heart of the pear, and cut the pear meat into small pieces. Put all the ingredients in a boiling water pot, cook for 2 hours with slow fire, season and drink as needed.
2. Apple
Some people worry that there will be pesticide residues in the apple peel, and they always like to peel the apple before eating it. In fact, pectin, flavonoids, anthocyanins and other bioactive substances contained in apples have the highest content in apple skins. In order to be afraid of those pesticides that may not remain much, it is not worth the loss to throw away the apple peel containing a lot of functional substances. Of course, if you buy fruit with green certification and organic certification, you can rest assured to eat the peel.
3. Sugarcane
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sugar cane enters the lung and stomach meridian, tastes sweet and cold, can nourish blood and nourish blood, and cold can clear away heat and produce fluid, and has the functions of nourishing lung and stomach, reducing qi and moistening dryness, relaxing bowels and resolving food stagnation. Sugarcane juice can not only treat body fluid injury caused by fever, anxiety and thirst, but also nausea, vomiting, cough and asthma caused by lung dryness, and can also relieve alcoholism.