🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Autumn weather is dry, making the human body prone to damage from dry pathogens affecting the lungs, resulting in symptoms such as dry skin, dry mouth and throat, and cough with little phlegm—common autumn dryness conditions. Many fresh fruits and vegetables abundant in autumn are rich in various nutrients essential for the human body. They not only nourish yin, moisten the lungs, and generate body fluids but also treat lung-related diseases, making them ideal foods for autumn health preservation.
Pear
Pears have a sweet and fragrant flavor, tender and juicy flesh, with effects including clearing heat and toxins, moistening the lungs, generating body fluids, and relieving cough and phlegm. Raw consumption, juicing, stewing, or making into a paste can effectively treat lung heat cough, measles, chronic cough in the elderly, and bronchitis. When combined with lotus root, honey, sugarcane, etc., and consumed as juice, the effect is even better.
Grape
Grapes are nutritionally rich and pleasantly tart-sweet, offering benefits such as nourishing liver and kidneys, enriching qi and blood, generating body fluids, and promoting urination. Eating raw grapes can nourish yin and relieve irritability; crushing the juice and concentrating it with cooked honey into a paste, then dissolving in warm water, is especially effective for treating irritability and thirst. Regular consumption benefits those suffering from neurasthenia and excessive fatigue. After drying, grapes see increased iron and sugar content, making them an excellent tonic for children, women, and weak individuals with anemia.
Dried Jujube (Recommended by Editor)
Chinese dates (Jujubes) nourish the stomach and spleen, boost qi and generate body fluids, moisten the heart and lungs, regulate the nutritive and defensive qi, nourish the spleen, supplement the five zang organs, treat intestinal disorders, and address deficiency conditions. Traditional Chinese medicine commonly uses them to treat pediatric autumn diarrhea, female emotional disturbances due to deficiency, lung deficiency cough, and insomnia, serving as a versatile tonic herb.
Pomegranate
Pomegranates are warm in nature and sweet-acid in taste, capable of generating body fluids and quenching thirst. They serve as an excellent dietary remedy for insufficient body fluids, dry mouth and throat, and persistent thirst. Crushing pomegranate into juice or boiling it into a decoction clears heat and toxins, moistens the lungs, relieves cough, kills parasites, and stops dysentery, suitable for treating childhood malnutrition, chronic diarrhea, and dysentery.
Citrus Fruit
Citrus fruits are cool in nature and sweet-sour in taste, with functions including generating body fluids, relieving cough, moistening the lungs, transforming phlegm, sobering the mind, and promoting urination. They are suitable for physical weakness, thirst after febrile illness due to fluid depletion, and alcohol-induced irritability and thirst. Juicing or honey-cooking is particularly effective for treating lung heat cough.
Sugarcane
Sugarcane juice is neutral in nature and sweet in taste, considered an excellent remedy for clearing heat, generating body fluids, moisturizing dryness, and nourishing the body. It aids the spleen, harmonizes the middle energizer, resolves phlegm, calms cough, and treats hiccups and vomiting, earning it the nickname "natural replenishing decoction." Traditional Chinese medicine often uses it as a cooling, fluid-generating agent for treating dry mouth and tongue, insufficient body fluids, constipation, and high fever with intense thirst.
Persimmon
Persimmons have the effects of moistening the lungs, relieving cough, clearing heat, generating body fluids, resolving phlegm, and softening hardness. Fresh persimmons eaten raw are highly effective for lung tuberculosis with cough, internal heat, pulmonary atrophy, excessive phlegm, and hemoptysis due to deficiency. Soft, ripe red persimmons can treat feverish thirst, chapped lips, inner restlessness, and heat-induced dysentery.
Lily
Lilies are thick-fleshed and deliciously refreshing, a nutritious and high-quality tonic. They excel in moistening the lungs and relieving cough, clearing the heart, and calming the spirit. They show good efficacy against tuberculosis, bronchitis, bronchiectasis, and various autumn dryness conditions. Cooked or made into a decoction, they can treat chronic cough due to lung deficiency, expectoration of blood-tinged sputum, and dry throat pain.
Radish
Radishes clear heat and resolve phlegm, generate body fluids, relieve cough, benefit the stomach, and aid digestion. Raw radishes can treat feverish thirst, lung heat cough, and thick phlegm. When combined with sugarcane, pears, lotus root, etc., and consumed as juice, the effect is enhanced.
Lotus Root
Lotus root can be eaten raw like fruit or used as a vegetable. It has effects including clearing heat, generating body fluids, resolving dampness and phlegm, cooling the blood, and detoxifying. It treats conditions such as heat illness with fluid depletion, dry mouth and throat, lung heat cough, and thick, yellow, sticky phlegm. Its effectiveness increases when combined with lotus root juice.
White Fungus (Recommended by Editor: Autumn Moistening White Fungus Porridge)
White fungus moistens the lungs, resolves phlegm, nourishes yin, and generates body fluids. Used in cooking or stewed, it treats yin deficiency with lung dryness, dry cough without phlegm, or sticky phlegm, and dry mouth and throat. When combined with lilies in a porridge, its therapeutic effect is especially pronounced.
It should be noted that fresh fruits and vegetables must be consumed in moderation. Overeating or binge-eating may harm health. Fresh fruits contain relatively high sugar levels; elderly people and those with cardiovascular diseases should consume them cautiously.