【Medicinal Recipe Name】
Steamed Pear with Ephedra
【Ingredients】
3-5g Ephedra, 1 large pear
【Preparation】
First, grind the Ephedra into coarse powder. Wash and peel the pear, cut it in half and remove the core. Fill the pear with the Ephedra powder, close it tightly, skewer it with a small bamboo stick, then place it in a bowl. Steam it over water until cooked.
【Usage】
Take it twice a day, one pear each time. Remove the Ephedra and drink the juice of the pear. Use it continuously for 3-5 days.
【Different Effects of Different Ways of Eating Pears】
1. Pear with Honey: Take one large white pear, 50g of honey. Peel and core the pear, fill it with honey, put it in a bowl, steam it and eat it. Take it once or twice a day for 2-3 consecutive days. It moistens the lungs and stops coughing, suitable for dryness in autumn and dry cough caused by lung dryness.
2. Pear with Fritillaria and Rock Sugar: Take 5g of Fritillaria powder, 1 large snow pear, and an appropriate amount of rock sugar. Peel and slice the pear, put it in a bowl with Fritillaria and rock sugar, steam it and eat it. Take it once or twice a day. It helps to dissolve phlegm and stop coughing, suitable for phlegm heat cough.
3. Pear Drink: Take an appropriate amount of snow pear or honey. Peel and chop the snow pear, mash it and drink the juice, or boil it into a paste, add honey and drink it. Take it several times a day. It clears heat and generates fluids, suitable for thirst caused by heat illness or alcohol-induced thirst. Five Juice Drink: Mix equal amounts of pear juice, water chestnut juice, reed root juice, lotus root juice, and ginger juice. Mix well and drink it cold or warm, 2-3 times a day. It relieves alcohol intoxication and quenches thirst, suitable for post-drinking restlessness and burning sensation in the stomach.
4. Steamed Pear with Ephedra: Take one large pear, 2g of Ephedra, an appropriate amount of rock sugar. Peel and core the pear, fill it with Ephedra and rock sugar, steam it, remove the Ephedra and eat it. Take it 2-3 times a day. It helps to dissolve phlegm and stop coughing, suitable for phlegm heat cough, and urgent shortness of breath caused by external cold and internal heat.
5. Luo Han Guo Pear Drink: Take one Luo Han Guo fruit, one large white pear, 10g of olives, and an appropriate amount of rock sugar. Peel the pear, chop it, and cook it with Luo Han Guo and olives in a pot with enough water. Boil it to remove the residue and drink the juice. Take it several times a day. It clears heat and soothes the throat, suitable for sore throat, loss of voice, and dry throat.
6. Lily Steamed Pear: Take 30g of lily, 1 snow pear, and an appropriate amount of rock sugar. Peel and slice the pear, cook it with lily and rock sugar in a pot with enough water until it is soft and cooked. Take it to moisten the lungs and stop coughing, suitable for dietary therapy of tuberculosis.
7. Lotus Seed and Tremella Steamed Pear: Take 20g of lotus seed, 10g of Tremella, 1 snow pear, and an appropriate amount of rock sugar. Soak the lotus seed and Tremella, wash them, peel and slice the pear, put them in a pot with enough water, cook them together until the lotus seed is fully cooked and the soup is thick. Take it to clear heat, moisturize dryness, dissolve phlegm, and stop coughing, suitable for dietary therapy of dry heat cough and autumn dryness.
