What Kind of Cough Does Autumn Pear Paste Treat?
Autumn pear paste, also known as snow pear paste, is a medicinal paste made primarily from white pear (duck pear, snow pear), combined with other herbs for cough relief, fluid generation, and lung moistening such as rehmannia, kudzu root, radish, ophiopogon, lotus node, ginger juice, fritillary bulb, and honey. Autumn pear has a sweet-sour taste and is cold in nature, capable of generating fluids, quenching thirst, moistening lungs, clearing heart fire, promoting bowel movements, and detoxifying. It effectively treats conditions such as thirst due to fever damage, chest heat and stuffiness, dry cough due to lung dryness, and constipation. Clinically, autumn pear is often paired with herbs that generate fluids, reduce fire, relieve cough, and moisten lungs to treat various symptoms caused by dry heat damaging body fluids.
Autumn pear paste is prepared by boiling autumn pear together with other herbs, possessing functions of generating fluids, reducing fire, nourishing yin, moistening lungs, and relieving cough. It is commonly used clinically to treat respiratory diseases caused by dry heat damaging body fluids, including lung heat with thirst, dry and uncomfortable bowels, lung yin injury due to exhaustion, white phlegm cough, and chronic cough with hemoptysis.
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