It's about to enter the wax moon, and the weather is getting colder and colder, for children who catch a cold as soon as they cool down and cough at every turn, fruit is indeed an embarrassing existence.
Can you eat fruit when it's cold? Yes, but it's best to eat it selectively.
3 principles for picking fruits in winter
1. It is advisable to eat less, you can't eat fruit as a staple food, just use a small bowl at home to serve it;
2. Eat only seasonal, fresh and natural fruits;
3. Eat when the spleen and stomach are in good condition, eat during the day than at night, and eat when you are healthy than when you are sick.
Tachibana: Wen Ichi Shimo
Tangerine, sweet and sour, cool. It can moisten the lungs, regulate qi and stomach.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that 1 orange = 5 flavors of "medicine". Orange flesh is appetizing and regulates qi, relieves cough and moistens the lungs; orange luotong dispels phlegm; orange kernel disperses knots and relieves pain; orange leaves soothes liver and regulates qi; orange peel strengthens the spleen and stomach, dries and dissolves phlegm.
But many people say that after eating oranges, the phlegm in the throat increases, which is actually because the sugar content of oranges is too high, and the spleen and stomach cannot absorb it, and it will be greasy and phlegm.
The solution to this problem is to eat less, and the second is to put the oranges on the radiator or brazier to heat them up, and feel hot to the touch.
Apples – steamed and eaten to stop diarrhea
Apples, sweet and sour, cool in nature, are the least picky and non-picky fruits in autumn and winter.
Although it is a bit "cold", it is different from cold, most children can eat it, if mothers are really worried, they can eat it steamed, and steamed apples can also relieve children's diarrhea.
Steamed apples
Ingredients: 1 apple
Method: Remove the core of the apple and cut it into pieces, put it in a bowl, steam it in the pot for 7 minutes, and the flesh will turn from white to yellow.
Efficacy: and antidiarrheal
Avoid: Suitable for children over 1 year old.
Pears - can clear the heat, and it is good to eat steamed
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pears are cold, sweet and slightly acidic, enter the lungs and stomach meridians, and have a good effect on fever, fever, polydipsia, dry cough, phlegm and heat frenzy, intestinal dryness and constipation.
Eating pears directly is cold, and we can adjust its bias by stewing soup.
Sekinashigawa
Ingredients: 1 pear, 3g Chuanbei, appropriate amount of honey.
Method: Cut the pear in half, then hollow out the flesh inside, grind the Chuanbei into powder, put the Chuanbei inside, steam it on the pot, let it cool slightly after getting out of the pot, and add a certain amount of honey.
Efficacy: Moistens the lungs and relieves cough. It is suitable for cough without phlegm and dry mouth caused by dry heat in the lungs.
Simmering, roasting, steaming, stewing, and boiling these cooking methods are all good ways to reconcile the bias of fruits, so let's practice with the fruits at home~