Snow pears are a top nourishing choice for many women in the winter. Besides being nourishing, snow pears actually have many health benefits. What are these specific health benefits? Let's find out together.
1. Relieving Coughs
There is a Chinese saying that "a raw pear clears the heat of the six fu-organs, while a cooked one nourishes the yin of the five zang-organs." Therefore, eating a raw pear can significantly relieve symptoms of upper respiratory tract infections such as dryness, itching, pain, and hoarseness in the throat, as well as constipation and dark urine. Steamed pear rock sugar is a common therapeutic food in China that can moisten the yin, nourish the lungs, relieve coughs and reduce phlegm, and is also very beneficial for vocal health.
2. Sobering Up
Mash fresh pears to extract juice and consume 300-500ml continuously.
3. Liver Protection
Take one duck pear, wash and slice it, and decoct it with three sections of willow branches in water. Drink the soup and eat the pear once daily for liver-protective effects. Take two raw pears, remove the cores, slice them, and soak them in vinegar. Eat once daily to clear the liver and reduce jaundice.
4. Lowering Blood Pressure
Take one duck pear and one tomato, peel them, and boil in a pot for 5-10 minutes. Eat once daily for 20 consecutive days to nourish yin, clear heat, and lower blood pressure.
5. Reducing Phlegm
Core the pear, fill it with black beans, and stew it over low heat. Eat daily.
Dietary Advice: However, pears should not be eaten in excess, as they can easily damage the spleen and stomach and promote dampness. In addition, those with wind-cold coughs, cold pain in the epigastric and abdominal regions, or spleen deficiency with loose stools should consume them with caution.
6. Promoting Salivation and Quenching Thirst
Snow pears moisten the throat and relieve dryness. They are suitable for people with a dry mouth, dry eyes, overthinking, insufficient sleep, or who talk too much.
7. Moistening the Lungs
Snow pears moisten the yin and lungs, relieving lung dryness and heat. They make breathing smooth and comfortable.
8. Promoting Urination and Reducing Swelling
They remove toxins and excess water from the body, promote the metabolism of blood and fluids, and have a diuretic effect to reduce edema.
9. Nourishing Skin and Improving Complexion
Snow pears enhance skin elasticity and have the effect of reducing wrinkles.
Snow Pear and Tremella Sweet Soup
Snow Pear Nourishing Recipes
1. Tremella and Snow Pear Soup
Ingredients: 50g Tremella, 1 snow pear, 40g rock sugar, a small amount of fresh lily.
Method:
1. Soak the tremella until it expands, remove the yellowish root base, peel and cube the snow pear, and wash the fresh lily.
2. Add enough water to a pot, bring to a boil over high heat, add the tremella, and once it boils again, turn to medium-low heat and cook for 20 minutes.
3. Add the rock sugar and pear chunks, cook for another 20 minutes, then add the lily and cook for 15 minutes before turning off the heat. Do not open the lid immediately after turning off the heat; let it steep for another 10 minutes before serving.
2. Snow Pear and Rice Congee
Ingredients: Rice, snow pear
Method:
1. Peel the snow pear and shred it; wash the rice.
2. Place the snow pear shreds in a soup pot, add enough water, bring to a boil, add the rice, and cook until the rice is soft.
3. Sichuan Berry and Snow Pear Stew
Ingredients: Snow pear, Sichuan berry mother, rock sugar, water
Method:
1. Prepare the sliced pears. Sichuan berry mother costs 26 yuan for 10 grams and can be bought at a pharmacy.
2. If you don't have a mortar and pestle, you can crush it with a rolling pin inside a sealed plastic bag.
3. Grind it into a powder, or you can ask the pharmacy to grind it for you when you buy it.
4. Fill the powder into the pear's core, add rock sugar and water, and you're ready to cook.
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