Smoking is harmful to health, which is well known, especially for the lungs. Although it is known that smoking is very harmful to the body, many people still can't quit. If you can't resist the addiction and quit smoking, you must eat more lung-nourishing foods to help eliminate the toxins from smoking.
1. Chinese Yam
Chinese yam is one of the best foods for moistening the lungs, which can be eaten regularly. The best way to eat it is to make Chinese yam congee or stir-fry it directly without pairing it with other foods.
2. Pear
It is well known that pear water is used to clear and moisten the lungs. Therefore, pear is good for the lungs because it contains a lot of water and is easily digestible. The best way to eat it is to make pear soup or pear water, add rock sugar, and eat the pear flesh and drink the soup.
3. Lily
Lily is a white food, and the lungs are suitable for eating white food, so lily is also suitable for moistening the lungs. The best way to eat it is to stir-fry it without adding too much seasoning, with a light taste.
4. Tremella
Tremella is also recommended by traditional Chinese medicine as a food for moistening and nourishing the lungs. The best way to eat it is to make it into a soup. It is best to add Chinese wolfberries and red dates, which will enhance the effect of Tremella. Remember to add white sugar.
5. Grape
Grape, especially white grape, has a very good effect on the lungs. You can make grape juice or eat grapes directly, but the best effect is to peel the grapes and boil them with Chinese wolfberries. It will be more effective.
6. White Radish
Radish is said to be good for ventilation, and moistening requires ventilation, so eating radish regularly can help with moistening.
7. Persimmon
Fresh persimmons can improve cough with phlegm, asthenia with blood-streaked sputum. Ripe persimmons can treat symptoms such as fever with irritability, dry mouth and lips, and heat in the chest.
8. Water Chestnut
Water chestnut can be juiced together with lotus root and drunk. It has the effects of clearing heat, generating body fluids, transforming dampness, and resolving phlegm, treating symptoms such as fever with thirst, dry throat, and cough due to lung heat.
9. Pomegranate
Pomegranate is warm in nature and has a sour and sweet taste. It has the effects of generating body fluids, relieving restlessness, and moistening dryness. It can be used as a good dietary therapy for insufficient body fluids, dry mouth and throat, and restlessness. Pomegranate juice or decoction can clear heat and detoxify, moisten the lungs and relieve cough, kill parasites, and stop diarrhea, treating conditions such as malnutrition and chronic diarrhea.
10. Sugarcane
Sugarcane juice is sweet in taste and neutral in nature. It is a good product for relieving heat, generating body fluids, moisturizing dryness, and nourishing. It can help invigorate the spleen, relieve phlegm and cough, and treat hiccup and vomiting. It is known as the "Tiansheng Fumai Decoction" in traditional Chinese medicine. It is often used as a cool and refreshing drink to treat symptoms such as dry mouth and tongue, insufficient body fluids, dry and hard stools, high fever, and thirst.
