After the Start of Autumn, autumn has arrived, and people are prone to autumn dryness. This is the best time to moisten dryness and produce body fluids. It's a great season in late summer and early autumn, and many fruits are the best food to help you get rid of autumn dryness!
I. Health-Preserving Fruits
1. Tangerine and Orange:
It is cool in nature and sweet and sour in taste, with effects such as promoting fluid production to relieve cough, moistening the lungs to resolve phlegm, sobering up, and promoting urination. It is suitable for conditions like physical weakness, insufficient body fluids and thirst after febrile diseases, and vexation and thirst from alcohol injury. Juicing or preparing it with honey is especially effective for treating lung-heat cough.
2. Grape:
It is nutritious, sweet and sour, and has effects such as nourishing the liver and kidneys, benefiting qi and blood, promoting fluid production, and promoting urination. Eating it raw can nourish yin and alleviate vexation. Mashing the juice and concentrating it with cooked honey into a paste, then taking it with boiling water, is especially effective for treating vexation and heat with thirst. Regular consumption is beneficial for neurasthenia and over-fatigue. When made into raisins, the content of iron and sugar increases relatively, making it a nourishing delicacy for children, women, and those who are weak and anemic.
3. Sugarcane:
Its juice is neutral in nature and sweet in taste, and is an excellent product for relieving heat, promoting fluid production, moistening dryness, and nourishing. It can help the spleen and harmonize the middle, reduce phlegm and suppress cough, treat dysphagia, and stop vomiting, earning it the praise of "natural pulse-replenishing soup". In traditional Chinese medicine, it is often used as a cooling and fluid-promoting agent to treat dry mouth, insufficient body fluids, constipation, and high fever with vexation and thirst.
4. Jujube (Chinese Date):
It nourishes the stomach and harmonizes the spleen, supplements qi and promotes fluid production. It also moistens the heart and lungs, regulates the nutrient and defensive qi, nourishes the spleen, supplements the five organs, treats intestinal disorders, and addresses deficiency and damage. Traditional Chinese medicine often uses it to treat children's autumn dysentery, women's visceral agitation, lung-deficiency cough, vexation and insomnia, making it a versatile and excellent tonic medicine.
5. Persimmon:
It has the effects of moistening the lungs to stop cough, clearing heat to promote fluid production, and resolving phlegm to soften hard masses. Eating fresh persimmons raw is effective for pulmonary tuberculosis, cough with deficiency heat, lung flaccidity, excessive phlegm, and consumptive cough with blood. Soft, ripe red persimmons can be used to treat febrile diseases with vexation and thirst, dry mouth and chapped lips, vexation in the heart, and dysentery.
6. Pear:
The flesh is sweet and delicious, tender and juicy. It has effects such as clearing heat and detoxifying, moistening the lungs and promoting fluid production, and stopping cough to resolve phlegm. It can be eaten raw, juiced, stewed, or made into a paste, and has a good therapeutic effect on lung-heat cough, measles, cough in the elderly, and bronchitis. If taken with juice from water chestnuts, honey, and sugarcane, the effect is even better.
7. Pomegranate:
It is warm in nature and sweet and sour in taste, and has the effect of promoting fluid production to stop vexation and thirst. For those with insufficient body fluids, a dry mouth and throat, and unceasing vexation and thirst, it can be used as an excellent food therapy. Drinking pomegranate juice or a decoction can clear heat and detoxify, moisten the lungs to stop cough, kill parasites and stop dysentery, and can be used to treat children's malnutrition, chronic diarrhea, and dysentery.
II. Health-Preserving Foods
The magic of food in resisting the ravages of time is much more convenient and effective than the expensive cosmetics and health supplements in bottles and jars.
1. Soybean:
Soybeans are a very good food for women. The vitamin E they contain can delay skin aging and prevent pigmentation. In addition, the lecithin in soybeans can also delay women's aging and postpone the onset of menopause.
2. Kelp:
Kelp is rich in minerals and can regulate the pH balance of the blood, preventing the skin from secreting too much oil.
3. Tomato:
It is well-known that tomatoes help with whitening and sun protection, but the latest research shows that tomatoes also help flatten new wrinkles, make the skin delicate and smooth, and prevent dark circles. It's truly a multi-benefit food.
4. Lotus Root:
Lotus root can be both a fruit and a delicacy, suitable for eating raw or cooked. Whether raw or cooked, lotus root has excellent medicinal value. In traditional Chinese medicine, raw lotus root is considered cold and sweet-cool, entering the stomach. It can resolve stasis and cool the blood, clear vexation and heat, and stop vomiting and thirst. It is suitable for conditions like vexation and thirst, alcohol intoxication, hemoptysis, and hematemesis. Postpartum women are advised to avoid raw and cold foods, but lotus root is an exception because of its excellent effect of resolving stasis. Hence the folk saying, "Freshly picked tender lotus root is better than a great physician." Cooked lotus root turns from white to purple and has the effects of nourishing the stomach, nourishing yin, strengthening the spleen, and supplementing qi. It is an excellent food tonic. Lotus root powder, processed from lotus root, is nutritious, easy to digest, and has the effects of nourishing blood to stop bleeding, regulating the middle jiao to whet the appetite. It is an ideal nutritional food for the old, young, and those with weak constitutions.
5. Carrot:
Since childhood, I've heard that carrots are also called "little ginseng". They are rich in vitamin A, vitamin C, and carotene, which can enhance the skin's resistance to damage and help maintain skin elasticity, and are also very helpful for health.
6. Honey:
Honey contains a large amount of amino acids, vitamins, and sugars that are easily absorbed by the body, making it an excellent skin care product. In addition, consuming more honey in autumn can also moisten the lungs and remove dryness, nourishing from the inside out.
7. Apple:
The healthiest fruit. In addition, among the many fruits and vegetables, Americans have ranked the healthiest fruit. Apple ranks first because it is rich in fiber, which can provide the human body with sufficient fiber, reduce the incidence of heart disease, and also aid in weight loss. Many Americans consider apples a must-have for weight loss. They have a "Apple Day" once a week, where they only eat apples on that day.
8. Milk:
Milk has been a beauty holy product since ancient times. It can improve the activity of skin cells, delay skin aging, enhance skin tension, and reduce fine lines, which is of great benefit to skin care. (Image source: CFP)