The climate is dry in winter, making it easy to get "heatiness". The editor recommends several hydrating and moisturizing foods to help you stay moisturized and beautiful during the dry winter.
1. Pear
Pears are sweet and slightly sour in taste, and cool in nature. They enter the lung and stomach meridians; they have the effects of promoting body fluids, moisturizing, clearing heat, resolving phlegm, and detoxifying alcohol. They are used for dry cough, thirst, constipation, and other symptoms caused by yin injury from heat diseases or yin deficiency, as well as vexation, thirst, cough, asthma, and yellow phlegm caused by internal heat. Pears contain boron, which can prevent osteoporosis in women. When boron levels are sufficient, memory, concentration, and mental acuity are improved.
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2. Grape
Grapes are nutrient-rich, sweet and sour. Grape seeds can be called true antioxidant superstars. Antioxidation is a way to combat aging. Grape seeds can fight aging and remove free radicals from the body, helping women stay young forever.
3. Cherry
Cherries are warm in nature, sweet and slightly sour in taste. They enter the spleen and liver meridians, and have the functions of tonifying the middle jiao, replenishing qi, expelling wind, and overcoming dampness. Cherries are not only beautiful and delicious but also have good health-promoting functions.
4. Pomegranate
Pomegranates are warm in nature, bitter, and sour. They can prevent coronary heart disease and hypertension, and can achieve the effects of strengthening the stomach, refreshing the mind, and enhancing appetite.
5. Kiwi
Kiwis contain excellent dietary fiber and rich antioxidants, which can play a role in clearing heat, reducing fire, moisturizing, and relieving constipation. Kiwis also have beauty effects. Eating kiwis often can help with weight loss; massaging the face with kiwi after washing can improve enlarged pores, whiten the skin, and fade dark spots.
6. Chestnut
Chestnuts are sweet, warm, and non-toxic. They have the medical effects of strengthening the spleen and tonifying the liver, strengthening the body, and fortifying bones. Regular consumption of chestnuts can benefit qi and blood, nourish the stomach, tonify the kidneys, and strengthen the liver and spleen; eating them raw also has the effect of treating soreness and pain in the waist and legs, as well as relaxing muscles and activating collaterals.
7. Lotus Seed
Lotus seeds are neutral in nature, sweet and astringent in taste, and enter the heart, spleen, and kidney meridians; they tonify the spleen to stop diarrhea, benefit the kidneys to astringe, and nourish the heart to calm the mind. They have the function of clearing heat and purging fire, as well as a significant cardiotonic effect, which can dilate peripheral blood vessels and lower blood pressure. They also have an auxiliary therapeutic effect on menorrhagia in women.
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