Stewed pears-to dry and moisten the lungs
Pear can moisten lung and clear fire, nourish yin and moisten dryness. Pear is cold, but it will reduce its coldness after cooking, and the effect of drying and moistening the lungs is better. Stew Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae and pear together, and the effect of moistening lung is better.
Practice: take 1 Sydney, peel off the pear cover, remove the inner core, pour in 3 grams of Fritillaria powder and appropriate amount of rock sugar; Cover the pears and steam them in a bowl 10 minutes. Turn off the heating. After the pears are warm, drink the steamed soup and eat pears. 65438+ 0 times a day can moisten the lungs and resolve phlegm.
Fritillaria cirrhosa is bitter, sweet and cool, belonging to the lung meridian, and has the functions of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, clearing heat and resolving hard mass. Fritillaria cirrhosa not only has good antitussive and expectorant effects, but also can nourish lung yin, spread and moisten lung, and clear lung heat, which is a good medicine for treating chronic cough and asthma. Rock sugar is sweet and flat, enters the lung and spleen meridians, and has the effects of tonifying the middle warmer, harmonizing the stomach and moistening the lung.
Steamed oranges-relieving cough
Oranges are flat and cool, and can regulate qi, eliminate phlegm and moisten the lungs. After the orange is steamed, the components such as' Naketing' and' orange peel oil' in the orange peel are decomposed, which can eliminate phlegm, moisten the lungs and relieve cough.
Practice: Wash oranges, soak them in salt water for 20 minutes, cut them into cups with a knife, sprinkle some salt on the exposed pulp, poke holes with chopsticks, and then cover the cut lid back. Steam the oranges in a bowl, boil the water and steam for 15 minutes. After steaming, you can go to the orange peel to eat pulp, and the juice at the bottom of the bowl can be drunk together.
This method is suitable for hot cough caused by qi stagnation and blood stasis or lung dryness. The main symptoms are yellow and sticky phlegm, sore throat, dry mouth and bitter taste.
Stewed grapefruit-resolving phlegm
Grapefruit is rich in protein, organic acids, vitamins and essential nutrients such as calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and sodium. Chinese medicine believes that grapefruit pulp is cold, sweet and sour, and it has the effects of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, invigorating stomach and promoting digestion when it enters the lung and stomach meridians. Pomelo peel can smooth the air, remove oil and relieve boredom. Eating 100~200 grams of grapefruit every day is the amount that the human body can easily absorb. Grapefruit is a little sour. Eating before meals 1 hour can also promote appetite.
People who often catch a cold, cough, expectoration and oral ulcer can leave the skin and core of fresh grapefruit, add honey and stew it for consumption. After heating, some nutrients in grapefruit will be more active when they enter the body, giving full play to their maximum efficacy. Grapefruit and honey have the effect of relaxing bowels and moistening skin.
Practice: Leave the skin and core of fresh grapefruit, add honey and stew it. Moderate consumption can reduce phlegm and reduce fire.
Stew bananas-moisten the intestines and relax the bowels
Bananas are rich in dietary fiber, which can clear away heat and moisten intestines and promote gastrointestinal peristalsis. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bananas are cold and sweet, and have the effect of clearing heat and moistening intestines, while steaming bananas can alleviate their coldness so as not to damage the spleen and stomach.
Practice: Peel bananas and put them in a dish, supplemented by rock sugar to increase the effect of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, and steam for about 10 minute. Take it twice a day, it can clear away heat and moisten dryness, moisten intestines and relieve constipation.
Cooked hawthorn-Xiaoshi
Hawthorn is sweet and sour, slightly warm in nature, and belongs to spleen meridian, stomach meridian and liver meridian, which has the function of promoting digestion and resolving stagnation. Hawthorn contains a lot of organic acids, fruit acids and so on. Eating raw hawthorn has certain stimulation to the stomach, and steaming is better. The steamed hawthorn is bright in color, sweet and sour, and can strengthen the spleen, stimulate appetite, promote digestion and eliminate accumulation. Practice: remove the core of hawthorn, put it in a bowl, add rock sugar, and steam for 15 minutes.
After big fish and big meat, there are often symptoms such as loss of appetite, bloating, and even nausea and vomiting, and hawthorn has a good effect on eliminating greasy food. It is most appropriate to eat some hawthorn at this time. In addition to digestion, hawthorn also has a good function of dilating blood vessels, regulating blood pressure and cholesterol, and plays a good health care role in the prevention and treatment of fatty liver, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, obesity and other diseases. However, although hawthorn is good, it is not suitable for eating more, and people with hyperacidity, gastric ulcer and reflux esophagitis are not suitable for eating.