Autumn is a dry season with large temperature differences between morning and evening, which easily causes dry cough. Especially for people with low resistance, they are more prone to catching the flu. Below is a diet therapy recipe that can moisturize the lungs and stop coughing, which has a good effect in relieving dry cough in autumn.
Ingredients:
- 3g Fritillaria cirrhosa powder
- a snow pear
- a little rock sugar
Instructions:
1. Grind about 3g of Fritillaria cirrhosa into powder, or crush it with a hammer until it is as fine as possible.
2. Peel the pear and make a small hole in the middle. Put the Fritillaria cirrhosa powder into the hole.
3. You can add a few pieces of rock sugar.
4. Use toothpicks to secure the pear lid and place it in a bowl. Then put it in a pot.
5. Add water to the pot and place a rack underneath. After the water boils, simmer on low heat.
6. After about two hours, the color and texture of the pear will change, and it will become very soft. Remove from heat.
Nutritional benefits:
Snow pear can generate body fluids, moisturize dryness, and clear heat and phlegm. It is especially suitable for consumption in autumn. Fritillaria cirrhosa has a bitter and sweet taste and enters the lung and heart meridians. It can transform phlegm, stop coughing, clear heat, and disperse nodules. Rock sugar nourishes yin, generates body fluids, moisturizes the lungs, and stops coughing. It has a good effect on cough and dryness of the lungs, especially suitable for autumn cough and lung moisturizing. It is also suitable for infants and young children.
Snow pear and tremella fungus both have the effect of nourishing yin and moisturizing the lungs, and treating dry cough with little phlegm. Fritillaria cirrhosa also has the effect of moisturizing the lungs and stopping coughing. If snow pear, tremella fungus, and Fritillaria cirrhosa are used together, the effect is excellent, especially for patients with long-lasting cough that does not heal.
