Pears cure coughs

According to Oriental medicine, pears are sweet, slightly sour, and cold, affecting the lung and stomach meridians. They have the effect of nourishing the lungs, clearing the mind, reducing phlegm, stopping coughs, reducing heat, quenching thirst, and are used to treat heat-related diseases, fever due to lung disease, excessive phlegm, sore throat, bronchitis, etc.

Li Shizhen's book "Compendium of Materia Medica" also states: "Pears moisten the lungs, cool the heart, reduce phlegm, reduce heat, detoxify wounds, and detoxify alcohol." Modern medicine also notes that pears have the effect of lowering blood pressure and are beneficial for the cardiovascular system. Thus, people with high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, hepatitis, cirrhosis, and those who often experience dizziness, blurred vision, tinnitus, vertigo, palpitations, etc. should eat pears.

Cure sore throat, bronchitis, cough with phlegm:

- Recipe 1: Take a pear weighing about 100g, cut into small pieces, cook until soft, remove the pulp, concentrate the juice into a paste, add enough sugar to sweeten, mix well, divide into 3-4 times to drink during the day. When drinking, mix the paste with boiling water. This remedy is used to treat coughs, reduce phlegm, and treat respiratory tract infections with good results.

- Recipe 2: Take a pear, crush it, squeeze out the juice and condense it, add a little honey and stir well (some people also add ginger juice), store in a sealed jar for later use, each time drink two teaspoons with warm boiled water. This recipe has the effect of eliminating phlegm, stopping coughs, and is used to treat coughs caused by phlegm heat and coughs that last for a long time.

Cure hoarseness, loss of voice:Use crushed pear to get the juice. Hold this juice in your throat many times a day and you will be cured of loss of voice.

Cure vomiting, hiccups:Take a fresh pear, peel it, remove the core, add 15 cloves, wrap it in lettuce leaves, bake or steam it. When eating, remove the cloves and eat only the pear.

Stimulates digestion, detoxifies alcohol:Put pears in a jar, soak them in vinegar for a week and you will have "vinegar pear". Eating half a "vinegar pear" every day will help improve digestion. When drunk, eating "vinegar pear" will cure alcohol poisoning and make you sober quickly.