What's good for pharyngitis? Three fruits that are most soothing for the throat.

Introduction: In the summer heat with dry air, pharyngitis often comes to bother us. When pharyngitis strikes, we experience throat discomfort, hoarseness, and even loss of voice. So, when pharyngitis arrives, what should we eat? Here are three recommended fruits.

1. Pear

Pears are delicious, with crisp, juicy flesh and a sweet and sour flavor. They are rich in sugars, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and various vitamins, playing an important role in human health. Pears have the effect of clearing and nourishing the lungs. People who eat more pears have a much lower chance of catching a cold than those who don't or rarely eat them, so some scientists and doctors call pears a "comprehensive health fruit" or a "general practitioner."

Among all fruits, pears are the most effective for treating the throat. Pears not only promote the production of saliva to quench thirst but also moisten the lungs and relieve coughs. Pears are rich in water and vitamin C, making them an excellent fruit for adapting to the dry climate. Pears are highly effective for the dry throat, hoarseness, and thick phlegm associated with upper respiratory tract infections.

Autumn Pear Paste

2. Sugarcane

Sugarcane is sweet, mild, and non-toxic. It mainly helps to lower qi, harmonize the middle jiao, strengthen the spleen, moisten the large intestine, resolve phlegm, quench thirst, relieve vexation and heat in the chest, and detoxify. Sugarcane can purge heat-fire, relieve fever and thirst, harmonize the middle jiao and widen the diaphragm, promote the production of fluid to moisten dryness, strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach, promote urination, and provide nourishment. It can be used for a dry mouth and tongue, insufficient body fluids, difficult urination, constipation, nausea and vomiting, indigestion, and fever with thirst. Raw sugarcane juice is sweet and cold in nature, making it suitable for conditions where febrile diseases have damaged the body fluids, causing vexation, thirst, high fever, dark urine, and a dry cough. For febrile diseases, drinking raw sugarcane juice is considered best, known as the "natural Fumai Decoction." Patients with pharyngitis can eat it raw or cooked. Cooked sugarcane juice has a tonic effect on patients with pharyngitis.

Sugarcane and Water Chestnut Drink

3. Loquat

Ripe loquats are sweet and nutritious, containing various fruit sugars, glucose, potassium, phosphorus, iron, calcium, and vitamins A, B, and C. Among fruits, its carotene content ranks third. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that loquat fruit has the effects of moistening the lungs, relieving coughs, and quenching thirst. The entire loquat plant can be used as medicine, and the fruit can moisten the lungs and promote urination, clear heat and strengthen the spleen, and has a good nourishing effect on the liver. Rich in vitamin C, it can act as an antiscorbutic factor. Loquats can relieve coughs, moisten the lungs, promote urination, strengthen the stomach, and clear heat, providing a moisturizing effect for patients with chronic pharyngitis. When eating loquats, the skin must be peeled. Besides eating them fresh, loquat flesh can also be made into canned syrup or used to make wine. The leaves, fruit, and pits of loquats all contain amygdalin.

Moistening Loquat Syrup