What are the effects of steaming oranges?

When someone in the family catches a cold or has a cough, some housewives always like to cut oranges, add a small amount of salt and steam them, and then feed them to their family. It is said that this can play an important role in curing colds and relieving coughs. So what are the effects of steaming oranges? How effective is it?

Steamed oranges are especially effective for family members who have caught a cold. They can effectively clear the cold virus from the body, improve the body's immunity, and can quickly improve symptoms such as sore throat, hoarseness, cough, runny nose, etc. However, when steaming oranges, you can add a small amount of table salt or an appropriate amount of rock sugar. If the symptoms of getting angry are more severe, you need to eat oranges steamed with rock sugar. If the pharyngitis and cough are more serious, it is suitable to eat oranges steamed with table salt.

Steaming oranges

1. Regulate the spleen and stomach to prevent vomiting

Steamed oranges can relieve colds and coughs. They can also regulate the spleen and stomach and prevent people from suffering from nausea, vomiting and other adverse symptoms. This is because orange itself is a sour fruit with a cold nature. It can enter the stomach meridian. The natural fruit acids and aromatic oils it contains can regulate the secretion of gastric acid and digestive juices, relieve spleen and stomach disharmony, and improve the spleen and stomach digestive function.

2. Clear away heat and relieve fire

Eating more steamed oranges can also clear away heat and remove fire. Oranges themselves are cold in nature. When steaming them, rock sugar is added to nourish yin and moisten the lungs, clear away heat and remove fire. This will make its heat-clearing effect more outstanding. Regular consumption can effectively prevent pharyngitis and reduce the occurrence of adverse symptoms such as hoarseness and mouth sores.

3. Open the chest and eliminate lung heat

Steamed oranges can also open up the chest and relieve knots, clear lung heat, and it also contains a variety of natural anti-inflammatory ingredients that can effectively clear inflammation of human organs and lungs, allowing people to breathe more smoothly. In addition, steamed oranges can dilute phlegm and speed up phlegm discharge. It also has a good effect on alleviating adverse symptoms such as coughing and phlegm that often occur in humans in autumn and winter.