Pears' therapeutic effects

Pears have high nutritional value and we can eat them as fresh fruit, but few of us know about their therapeutic effects.

Sydney Drink

Wash and slice 1 snow pear or large sweet pear, remove the core, soak in an appropriate amount of cold boiled water for half a day, and drink it from time to time. It has the effect of clearing away heat and quenching thirst. It is suitable for people with exogenous fever, excessive heat and loss of body fluid, and thirst.

Three Immortals Drink

2 duck pears, 250g each of raw radish and fresh lotus root, wash, peel, chop and squeeze juice, add 100g of honey, mix well and drink. Efficacy: clearing heat and resolving phlegm, moistening lungs and relieving cough. Suitable for cough caused by lung heat or yin deficiency.

Apricot and pear drink

10g almonds, 1 large duck pear, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Cut the duck pear into pieces and remove the core, cook with the almonds, and add a little rock sugar when the pear is cooked. Drink the soup and eat the pear. Efficacy: Clears heat, moistens the lungs and relieves cough. Suitable for patients with dry lungs, cough and asthma, with no or little phlegm.

Silver Shell and Pear Soup

20g of soaked Tremella, 5g of Fritillaria cirrhosa, 1 pear, 20g of rock sugar. Remove impurities from soaked Tremella and wash it; put Tremella, Fritillaria cirrhosa, pear and rock sugar into a small bowl and stew or steam it for 30 minutes. Efficacy: clearing heat and moistening the lungs, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. Suitable for lung heat cough, yin deficiency hemoptysis, dry cough without phlegm in the elderly and other symptoms.

Snow Pear Duck Soup

Peel and core 2 pears and slice them, peel and slice 100g water chestnuts, add 250g duck meat (cut the lean meat into pieces and remove the oil) and cook the soup, add a small amount of onion, ginger, MSG and salt, eat the soup, pears, water chestnuts and duck meat once a week. Efficacy: clearing heat, nourishing yin and benefiting the liver. Suitable for patients with chronic or persistent hepatitis with yin deficiency and internal heat.

Raw pear and scallion soup

Take 1 large pear, 7 scallions with roots, 10 grams of sugar, decoct in water and take for 3 to 5 days. It has the effects of clearing away heat, moistening the lungs and relieving cough. It is suitable for wind-heat cough.

Sichuan Fritillary Duck Pear

1.5g Fritillaria cirrhosa, 1 large pear, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Crush Fritillaria cirrhosa into powder; cut off a piece of the large pear stem as a lid, dig out the pear core with a knife, add Fritillaria cirrhosa powder and rock sugar, cover the stem, and steam in a small bowl. First boil it with high heat, then steam it with low heat for about 30 minutes. Drink it with the pear and soup. Efficacy: moisturizes the lungs and resolves phlegm, relieves cough and promotes salivation. Suitable for cough due to consumptive disease, long-term dry cough, etc.