3 types of fruits that are effective in treating coughs when the weather turns cold.

These delicious, inexpensive, and readily available fruits will help keep our throats healthy and prevent coughing during seasonal changes.

The transitional period from summer to autumn is when we get to enjoy the cool and pleasant breezes of early autumn.

However, few realize that those first winds of the season can easily become the "culprit" that damages our throats. Therefore, during the changing seasons, everyone needs to pay attention to protecting and caring for their throats to avoid excessive coughing.

Below are 3 types of fruits and vegetables that are considered top-rated for throat protection, based on the criteria of being delicious, nutritious, and affordable.

Pear

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, pears have a sweet taste and a cooling nature, with soft and juicy flesh. This fruit not only helps to clear heat, expel phlegm, generate fluids, and quench thirst, but also reduces the dry and sore feeling in the throat during the dry autumn weather.

Pears are also a versatile fruit in terms of how they can be prepared and enjoyed.

Pears can be eaten raw or cooked. Those who enjoy fresh pears should peel them, cut them into pieces, and eat them directly or juice them.

In addition, this fruit is also used as an ingredient to make "pear jam" (a paste made from pears and honey to treat coughs) or steamed with rock sugar, both of which have a soothing effect on the throat.

However, pears are considered cooling in nature, so people with weak constitutions or coughs caused by cold exposure should not eat them directly but should steam them instead. Those who are sensitive to cold or have weak stomachs should limit or ideally avoid eating pears altogether.

Water chestnut

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the tuber of the Chinese horse chestnut tree is given the beautiful name "snow pear in the heart of the earth." This tuber has a sweet taste and a cooling nature, helping to clear the lungs, moisten the throat, dissolve dampness, and eliminate phlegm.

Due to its properties and uses, water chestnut is also considered a "miracle cure for throat problems" in the autumn. Furthermore, this tuber helps with dry coughs, dry mouth, and sore throats during seasonal changes.

Besides enjoying fresh water chestnuts, users can also prepare this tuber into delicious dishes using methods such as boiling, grilling, stewing, and roasting.

It should be noted that water chestnuts are not easily digestible and have a cooling effect. Therefore, people with poor digestion, as well as children and the elderly, should not eat too much of them.

In particular, when eating fresh water chestnuts, you must peel them, because these tubers grow in rice paddies, and their skins are very susceptible to parasites or dirt.

White radish

Dubbed "miniature ginseng," white radish possesses numerous miraculous benefits.

Traditional Chinese medicine holds that fresh white radish has a spicy taste and a cooling nature, while cooked it becomes sweet and neutral in nature. It is believed to have the effects of clearing heat, generating fluids, replenishing water, promoting urination, expelling phlegm, and relieving coughs. When cooked, it also helps nourish the spleen, benefit the stomach, aid digestion, and reduce gas.

Speaking about the benefits of white radish, the famous Chinese physician Li Shizhen once remarked, "It is the most beneficial vegetable for humans."

White radish is very popular in the autumn and also helps treat dry coughs, phlegmatic coughs, sore throats, hoarseness, etc.

Although white radish is a highly nutritious root vegetable, people with qi deficiency, yang deficiency, or constipation should avoid eating it to prevent their condition from worsening.

According to Young Knowledge