It is advisable to eat fruits during Cold Dew. Pay attention to replenishing fluids and eat more fruits such as snow pears, bananas, cantaloupes, apples, persimmons, and grapes. In addition, it is also important to apply skincare cream to protect the skin and prevent it from drying and cracking.
Pears: Pear flesh is sweet, fragrant, delicious, tender, and juicy. It has effects such as clearing heat and detoxifying, moistening the lungs and promoting fluid production, and relieving coughs and resolving phlegm. Eaten raw, juiced, stewed, or made into a paste, it is effective in treating lung-heat cough, measles, cough in the elderly, and bronchitis. If taken as a juice with water chestnuts, honey, or sugarcane, the effect is even better.
Citrus: Citrus fruits are cool in nature and sweet and sour in taste. They have effects such as promoting fluid production to relieve coughs, moistening the lungs to resolve phlegm, and sobering up and promoting urination. They are suitable for conditions like physical weakness, insufficient fluids and thirst after a fever, and thirst due to alcohol intoxication. Juiced or preserved in honey, they are particularly good for treating lung-heat cough. Pomegranate: Pomegranate is warm in nature and sweet and sour in taste. It promotes fluid production and relieves vexation and thirst. For those with insufficient fluids, dry mouth and throat, and incessant vexation and thirst, it can be an excellent food remedy. Pomegranate juice or a decoction can clear heat and detoxify, moisten the lungs and stop coughs, kill parasites and stop diarrhea, and can treat childhood malnutrition, chronic diarrhea, and dysentery.
Grapes: Grapes are nutritious, sweet and sour, and have effects such as nourishing the liver and kidneys, benefiting qi and blood, promoting fluid production, and promoting urination. Eaten raw, they can nourish yin and relieve vexation. When juiced, mixed with ripe honey, and concentrated into a paste, then taken with hot water, they are excellent for treating vexation, heat, and thirst. Regular consumption is beneficial for neurasthenia and over-fatigue. When made into raisins, the relative content of iron and sugar increases, making them a nourishing food for children, women, and those who are weak and anemic.
Jujubes: Jujubes can nourish the stomach and spleen, replenish qi and promote fluid production. They have effects such as moistening the heart and lungs, nourishing the five organs, treating intestinal disorders, and curing deficiency and damage. Traditional Chinese medicine often uses them to treat autumn dysentery in children, visceral agitation in women, lung deficiency cough, and vexation and insomnia. It is a widely used and excellent tonic medicine.