Chinese medicine says "nourishing Yang in spring and summer". In spring, we should pay attention to cold protection and warmth, care for yang, eat some foods that dispel yin cold and help spring to generate yang, and eat some fruits that nourish the spleen and stomach and moisten dryness to meet the increasingly active needs of various tissues and organs of the human body.
Recently, the temperature in Nanjing is rising gradually, and the climate is getting drier and drier, which often makes people feel dry and uncomfortable in the nose and throat. At this time, I recommend you to eat some fruits that can quench your thirst, moisten your throat and remove noise, so that people will feel relaxed and comfortable.
So which fruits can we choose?
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Sweet, slightly sour, cold and cool, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, moistening dryness and resolving phlegm.
Although pears have many benefits, they are also exquisite to eat, and different eating methods will have different effects.
(1) Raw food can relieve symptoms of yin deficiency such as dry throat, dry cough and polydipsia caused by upper respiratory tract infection.
(2) Juicing, adding crystal sugar, boat-fruited Sterculia and cicada slough, and cooking. It is suitable for people who are prone to laryngitis due to fire, and has the effects of moistening throat and supplementing body fluid.
(3) Add crystal sugar or honey to raw pears to make "autumn pear paste" to treat cough caused by lung heat.
(4) Almond 25g, Platycodon grandiflorum 10g, Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae 10g, Boat-fruited Sterculia 5g, boiled with pear (sliced), and treated with phlegm.
banana
Sweet, cold and slightly astringent, it has the effects of clearing away heat and quenching thirst, clearing stomach and cooling blood, moistening intestines and relaxing bowels, lowering blood pressure and diuresis.
Most people with constipation choose bananas to help defecate, but they don't know that eating undercooked bananas can not relieve symptoms but aggravate constipation, especially for the elderly and children.
3. Apple
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. The temperature is unstable in spring, and there are many people suffering from the flu. Eating apples can increase the body's disease-resistant tissues to produce a kind of heat energy, and at the same time, the special substance-anti-cold factor directly resists the cold virus and accelerates recovery.
4. kumquat
Sweet, sour and warm.
Kumquat can be eaten with both skin and meat. After the skin and meat are chewed together, the throat feels moist and full of fragrance. Some people don't like skin, but they don't know that 80% of vitamin C in kumquat is concentrated on skin, and it is as high as 200mg per100g.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that raw kumquat has the functions of invigorating qi and relieving depression, resolving food stagnation, dispelling cold and resolving phlegm, and sobering up, and can be used to treat chest tightness, drunkenness, thirst, dyspepsia, anorexia, cough and asthma. Patients with cholecystitis, hepatitis, gastropathy, tracheitis, hypertension and arteriosclerosis often eat kumquat or kumquat cake, which has the function of adjuvant treatment.
When eating kumquat, we should pay attention to the following questions.
(1) It is not advisable to eat kumquat before meals or on an empty stomach, because the organic acids contained in kumquat will stimulate the mucosa of the stomach wall and make the stomach feel uncomfortable.
(2) Don't drink milk before and after eating kumquat 1 hour, because protein in milk will solidify when it meets the fruit acid in kumquat, which is not easy to digest and absorb, and will lead to abdominal distension and sadness.
(3) When the throat is swollen, itchy and coughing, it is not advisable to add sugar to kumquat tea. Too much sugar will produce phlegm.
(4) People with spleen deficiency and qi deficiency should not eat more.
(5) People with diabetes should not eat it.
(6) People with broken tongue and swollen gums should not eat.