Author: Feng Xiaoying, Guangzhou Orthopedic Hospital
"Dream of the Red Chamber" wrote in 80 times:
In order to cure Xia Jingui's jealousy, Bao Yu asked Lao Dao Wang Yi ti for "healing jealousy soup", "......... With excellent autumn pears, one, two dollars of rock sugar, one dollar of tangerine peel, three bowls of water, pear ripeness for the degree, eat this one pear every morning, eat it and eat it."
The source of autumn pears
Autumn pear: near-ripe or ripe fruit derived from the rosaceae plants white pear, sand pear and their cultivated varieties, harvested in autumn.
The "Compendium of Materia Medica" states that it can "moisturize the lungs and cool the heart, eliminate phlegm and reduce fire, and detoxify sores and alcohol". Its sweet taste, slightly acidic, cool, return to the lungs, stomach, heart meridian, with the effect of clearing the lungs and moisturizing, raw and thirst-quenching, can be used for dry lungs cough, fever and irritability, jin less dry mouth, thirst, red eyes, sores, burns and other symptoms.
Modern research shows that autumn pears are rich in sugar, organic acids and a variety of vitamins and trace elements, which are very beneficial to patients with respiratory diseases such as colds and tracheitis and hypertension, heart disease, liver disease and esophageal cancer.
Sydney, which we usually like to eat, also belongs to the list of autumn pears, and the "Compendium" says that the milk pear is The Sydney pear. Its flesh is tender as white as snow, the taste is crisp and juicy, and it is the most popular among the public.
Autumn pears can be treated with food
The northern winter air is dry, it should be moist, autumn pears are sweet and juicy, can be eaten raw, can also be steamed and eaten, used to decoct soup or wrought juice drinking also has a unique flavor, in order to accompany the meal, moist and flat wind, clear the lungs and cough, is the best.
1. Porridge with pear juice
Ingredients: 3 autumn pears, 50g of stemmed rice.
Directions: Autumn pears are cut into thin slices, boiled, juiced to remove dregs, pear juice into japonica rice to cook porridge, and eaten hot.
Efficacy: Treatment of children's wind fever, lung fever cough, loss of appetite, dizziness, fever, drunken thirst and so on.
2. Sichuan shell autumn pear pig lung soup
Ingredients: 2 autumn pears, 10g Sichuan shellfish, 1 pig lung.
Directions: Wash and cut the pig lungs into small pieces, boil in boiling water for 5 minutes, then wash with cold water; peel and dig the heart of the autumn pear, cut into small pieces, Sichuan shellfish grinding, put everything into the pot and boil over low heat, turn to simmer for 1.5 to 2 hours, add salt or rock sugar to taste and eat.
Efficacy: moisturizing the lungs and reducing phlegm and cough, suitable for tuberculosis cough, hemoptysis, dry cough without sputum and hot cough without sputum in the elderly, etc., can also be used for upper respiratory tract infections, bronchitis and other people who belong to dry lungs.
3: Rock sugar stewed sydney pear
Ingredients: 1 autumn pear, 30~50g of rock sugar, a little goji berries.
Directions: Wash the large pears, cut 1/4 of the top, dig out the heart, add rock sugar, goji berries, cover the pears, put them in a small bowl, steam for 1 hour, let it warm.
Effect: moisturizing the lungs, reducing phlegm, cough, clearing the heart, suitable for dry cough, cough and asthma, thirst, loss of sound, hoarseness and anti-alcohol, decanting.
4. Autumn pear paste
Ingredients: 1000g autumn pear, 20g fresh root, 10g green radish, 10g Sichuan shellfish, 10g mai dong, 5g ginger.
Directions: Take the autumn pears, wash and cut into chunks to squeeze the juice. Take fresh root, green radish chopped, Sichuan shellfish grinding powder, and mai dong, pear residue and water decoction 2 times, filter, combine two filtrate and pear juice, filter, simmer concentrated into a paste, according to 500g added to the ratio of refining honey 150g to add honey, oral 2 times a day, each time 15g.
Efficacy: Shengjin, fire reduction, yin nourishment, lung moisturizing, cough and blood, suitable for respiratory diseases such as lung heat and thirst, dry stool, strained lung yin, coughing up white sputum, coughing up hemoptysis and other respiratory diseases caused by heat and dry injury.
5. Pear peel sticker
Ingredients: fresh pear peel.
Directions: Apply an appropriate amount of fresh pear peel to the eyelids on the affected side, changing every 2 hours.
Efficacy: Treatment of stye.
Autumn pear is not suitable for people
Autumn pears are not suitable for people with sweet and cool taste, cold cough, spleen and stomach deficiency, cold hands and feet, and loose stools, so as not to aggravate the symptoms.
Review experts: Zhang Chengguang, Guangdong Second Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hu Song, chief pharmacist of Wuhan Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine
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