Pears are a delicious and nutritious fruit that can moisten the lungs and relieve coughs. Many people eat pears to alleviate their symptoms when they have a cough or a cold, let alone in dry weather. Eating a juicy pear makes one feel much more comfortable. However, this is actually incorrect. Pears are cool-natured, and eating them when you have a cold caused by wind-cold can actually worsen the condition. But boiling the pear can completely solve this problem. So what's going on?
If you boil a pear, the cooked pear loses its cool nature, the skin becomes slightly bitter, and its effect of removing dryness and moistening the lungs is fully released. The lignin in pear seeds is originally insoluble fiber, but after heating, it dissolves in the intestines, helping to expel harmful cholesterol.
Recommendation 1: Pear Paste (or Pear Juice)
Autumn Pear Paste
2000g of pears, chopped and mashed, to extract the juice (or decoct the juice). Simmer over low heat until thick, add an equal amount of honey, mix well, and bring to a boil. Let it cool to form a paste. Take 1-2 spoonfuls each time, dissolved in warm water. For immediate use, you can drink freshly squeezed pear juice or chew fresh pears. Consuming pear paste has a good effect of nourishing yin, generating fluids, moistening dryness, and quenching thirst. It is used for diabetes with a strong thirst. It can also be used for hyperactivity of fire due to yin deficiency, fluid consumption, thirst, vexation, a sore throat, dryness of the larynx, loss of voice, or a dry cough of the lungs.
Recommendation 2: Clove-Braised Pear
1 large pear, cored, with 15 cloves placed inside. Wrap it with vegetable leaves or damp grass paper and bake it in hot ashes until cooked (you can also steam the pear with the cloves inside). Braised pears can benefit the stomach and nourish yin. Cloves are warm in nature and can lower rebellious qi, harmonize the stomach, and stop vomiting. When used with pears, they are warm but not drying. It is used for nausea and vomiting due to weak stomach qi or stomach cold.
Recommendation 3: Fritillary Bulb Steamed Pear
Fritillary Bulb and Snow Pear
1 large pear, cored. Put 3g of powdered Fritillary Bulb and an appropriate amount of rock sugar into the pear, seal it, and cook or steam it. Eat in two servings. Fritillary Bulb is a key remedy for moistening the lungs, transforming phlegm, and stopping coughs. Both pear and rock sugar can clear heat, moisten the lungs, and transform phlegm. It is used for lung dryness-heat, cough with yellow, thick phlegm, and a dry throat.
Boiling pears removes their cool nature, making them more beneficial for the body. When we focus on health preservation, we must choose the correct methods and try to learn more about them. Nutrition is not just about being high in nutrients; it must actually be beneficial to you.
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