These six fruits and vegetables are best for moisturizing the lungs.

Some common fruits, vegetables, and other foods are very beneficial to your health, especially for your lungs. By choosing the foods below, either alone or in combination, your lungs will become healthier over time.

1. Grapefruit

Its nature and flavor are sweet and cold. It contains naringin, poncirin, neohesperidin, carotene, vitamin C, B1, B2, niacin, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carbohydrates, and volatile oil. Its functions are to promote the descent of qi, relieve the chest, resolve phlegm, stop coughing, and benefit the lungs. However, because grapefruit is cold in nature, it should not be consumed excessively. Eating 2 to 3 segments is appropriate.

2. Kumquat

Its nature and flavor are sweet and sour, mild and warm, and non-toxic. It affects the lung and stomach meridians. It is sweet and moistening for the lungs, whets the appetite, aids digestion, quenches thirst, and promotes the production of body fluids. Oranges have this effect, but the small kumquats sold at fruit stands are the most beneficial for your body and should definitely be included in your daily fruit list.

Candied Kumquats

3. Honey Jujube

Its nature and flavor are sweet and neutral. It can replenish qi, promote the production of body fluids, and moisten the lungs. You can add a few honey jujubes when making soups or sweetened water.

4. Honey

Its nature and flavor are sweet and neutral, and it affects the spleen, lung, and large intestine meridians. Its functions are to tonify the middle jiao, moisten dryness, and detoxify. It is often used to treat dryness-type coughs of the lungs. The "Huayao Huayi" (Pharmaceutical Interpretation) records: "For timid and weak individuals with incessant coughing, depletion of essence and blood, withered lungs, leading to symptoms of lung dryness where neither cold nor heat treatments are effective and other medicines show little benefit, taking two *liang* of aged honey daily for about a month will surely have an effect, which embodies the principle of 'moistening what is dry'."

Many people probably already know that honey is an excellent food with countless benefits and no harm. Every morning after waking up, take 1 to 2 tablespoons, dissolve it in warm water, and drink it on an empty stomach. Over time, this will not only moisten your lungs but also detoxify and beautify your skin.

Pork and Radish Soup with Dried Scallops

5. White Radish

The "Rihuazi Bencao" (Materia Medica of Master Rihua) says it "can resolve phlegm and stop coughing, and treat lung abscess with hemoptysis." The "Sisheng Bencao" (Four-Tone Materia Medica) considers it "also effective for lung cough with hemoptysis." The "Suixi Jiu Yinshipu" (Dietary Guide for Daily Living) records its function of "treating cough and loss of voice, and various throat pains." Its nature and flavor are acrid, sweet, and cool, and it affects the lung and stomach meridians. It contains glucose, sucrose, fructose, vitamin C, and glucoraphenin.

There is a folk saying in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Shanghai area, "A radish in winter is worth ginseng," and this is the reason behind it. You can often make a spare rib and radish soup to drink.

6. Lotus Root

It affects the lung, heart, and spleen meridians. Cooked lotus root is sweet, warm, and non-toxic. Eating cooked lotus root can nourish the heart and blood, strengthen the stomach and spleen, and provide nourishment and strength. Lotus root soup promotes urination, clears heat, and moistens the lungs. You can make a soup with lean pork or pork bones, lotus root, and an appropriate amount of mung beans.