Introduction: Summer is here, and it's the season when our bodies need hydration the most. Many people enjoy drinking juice, but what are the benefits of the various types? Today, we'll introduce 6 common healthy juices to give you more options.
1. Citrus Juice
Citrus fruits are cool in nature and sweet and sour in taste. They have the effects of promoting saliva secretion to relieve cough, moistening the lungs to resolve phlegm, sobering up, and promoting urination. They are suitable for conditions such as physical weakness, insufficient body fluids after a febrile illness, thirst, and alcohol-induced vexation and thirst. Juicing or preparing them with honey is particularly effective for treating coughs due to lung heat.
2. Pear Juice
Pear flesh is sweet, fragrant, and juicy. It has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, moistening the lungs and promoting saliva, and relieving cough and resolving phlegm. It can be eaten raw, juiced, stewed, or made into a paste, and has a good therapeutic effect on coughs due to lung heat, measles, cough in the elderly, and bronchitis. When juiced and consumed with water chestnut, honey, or sugarcane, the effect is even better.
Honey Sweet Pear Juice
3. Grape Juice
Grapes are nutritious, sweet and sour, and have the effects of nourishing the liver and kidneys, benefiting qi and blood, promoting body fluids, and promoting urination. Eating them raw can nourish yin and relieve vexation. Mashing the juice and concentrating it with honey into a paste to be taken with hot water is especially effective for treating vexation and thirst from heat. Regular consumption is beneficial for neurasthenia and over-fatigue.
4. Pomegranate Juice
Pomegranates are warm in nature and sweet and sour in taste. They have the effects of promoting body fluids and quenching thirst. They are a great food therapy option for those with insufficient body fluids, a dry mouth and throat, and persistent thirst. Pomegranate juice or a decoction can clear heat and detoxify, moisten the lungs and stop cough, and kill parasites to stop diarrhea. It can be used to treat children's malnutrition, chronic diarrhea, and dysentery.
Pomegranate Juice
5. Peach Juice
6. Apple Juice
Research shows that the flavonoids and polyphenols in apple juice have anti-cancer effects. A study by the American Academy of Pediatrics indicates that for children, 100% juice (especially apple juice) is the best beverage after milk, dairy products, and water.
Homemade Slimming and Beauty Apple Juice
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