🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Pears belong to the Rosaceae family, including varieties such as white pear, sand pear, and autumn pear, widely produced across China. Those with thin skin, white flesh, sweet fragrance, and no residue are considered superior.
Historically, pears were called Zongguo, Kuai Guo, Yuru, and Mifu. Beyond their appealing aroma, taste, and appearance, pears are praised for their nutritional value. Pear flesh contains abundant fructose, glucose, and organic acids like malic acid, along with proteins, fats, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, and ascorbic acid.
Traditional Chinese medicine considers pears cold in nature, sweet and slightly sour in taste, entering the lung and stomach meridians. They have functions including generating body fluids, moistening dryness, resolving phlegm, relieving cough, reducing fire, and clearing the heart. They are used to treat conditions such as fluid depletion due to fever, diabetes, phlegm-heat cough, and constipation.
Due to the presence of glycosides and tannins, pears also show therapeutic effects on tuberculosis. "Pear syrup" made by stewing raw pears with honey is especially suitable for patients with chronic lung heat cough. Stewing pears with rock sugar not only clears phlegm-heat, alleviates asthma, moistens the lungs, and nourishes yin but also protects the voice, making it ideal for singers and broadcasters to consume regularly.
[Herbal Dietary Formula Selection]
1. Asthma and shortness of breath: Take a pear, scoop out the core, fill with small black beans, replace the lid, secure tightly, simmer over low heat until soft. Mash into a cake and eat daily.
2. Cough: Crush the pear and use the juice, or make it into a paste. Add ginger juice and white honey for consumption.
3. Thirst due to fever: Use a large sweet pear, slice thinly, soak in cold water for half a day, crush to extract juice, and sip frequently.
[Contraindications] Avoid for those with spleen deficiency and loose stools, or those with deficiency-cold cough.